Inter-school Team Membership

[Mr_I]

Is there a policy, stated or assumed, regarding a student's joining a team that's based in another school?

Over the years we've proudly accepted members from outside our school. Not a lot, in fact four total. Sometimes the student's own school didn't have a team; other times it was because they knew several members of our team, or our team was more fun / serious than their school's. We never thought twice about the "appropriateness" of this, but in fact touted this in our Chairman's entries.

A long series of discussions began today, starting with a question on insurance. Our school's insurance can not cover students on our team from other schools. Anyway, one thing lead to another, and it wasn't long before the question came up of should we be doing this?

Does anyone know what FIRST's standpoint on this is? Or does anyone know the rules of other schools?

I'd appreciate whatever insights you can offer. Thanks in advance.