When to split the team

[Joe G.]

Thanks for all the feedback!

From your information you gave about your team last year, it looks like not many if any of the girls were on the team last year. Do they know enough skills yet, or would it be more beneficial to have some experienced students guiding them?

Not to badmouth girls of FIRST teams, but I have some doubts about this group of girls' ability to make a robot on their own (four of the five are rookies, and three look like they'll fall into the "lose interest" category lil lavery mentioned) Talking with other team members, I have come to the conclusion that the primary motivation is not the all girls team, but the size of the team. Fortunatly for our city, all high schools in the area have FRC and FVC teams. Unfortunatly, because there is no need for schools to collaborate on these, most of these teams are quite small, about the size of our team last year. This has caused our mentors to view this as normal, and now that we have so many more members, it would help productivity to split the team. The all girl team is viewed as a side benefit. I'll definatly bring this thread up at tomorrow's meeting.

Thanks again