Team Makeup?

[Pavan Dave]

What is the makeup of your team?

Are most of them band/orchestra/choir students, are most of them jocks, or are most of then neither of the above or part of another group?

[Otaku]

Everybody on our school is at least a second degree Geek. I'm probably a 4th or 5th.



Our school has no band people, no jocks, etc

but then again it's a 240 student "alternative" public school that focuses on technology (Hence, Tech High).

[Koko Ed]

Our team is mostly IB kids. We try to attract the "regular" students who make up the majority of the school but they are mostly just not interested.

[Deacon Blues]

Primarily honors students. The engineering side is made up primarily of honors kids who will go on to do engineering or something similar in college, PR is honor kids who hang out at gas stations and will end up being lit and/or business majors. No one is legitimately popular or anything, but most of us are known decently throughout our classes.

[Athleticgirl389]

well my team has to be different here... we are actually made up of mostly athletes. they split their time between the shop and their sport (i was one of them when i was in high school). and they do a great job at keeping up with both and they have a lot fun doing both too.

[GaryVoshol]

Where is "well rounded" on the list?

I guess that would be "a group not mentioned".

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Where is "well rounded" on the list?

I guess that would be "a group not mentioned".

Actually that is an option. "No group has a majority its pretty even."

[FourPenguins]

Hmm. We've got our share of band kids. Very few jocks. However, I'd say the majority are known as robotics kids. MORT is their top priority.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Our team is mostly IB kids. We try to attract the "regular" students who make up the majority of the school but they are mostly just not interested.

I should point out that our IB kids do play alot of sports (soccer mostly).
The more EC you do the better it looks on your college application.

[Branden Ghena]

Originally, Our team consisted completely of students in either band, ROTC, or both. Recently though, we seem to have moved away from that with our team split between sports players, band, and no-other-club-to-describe-them-students.

[Vexkingof716]

Our team is a little different. Most of the kids are in a small social group that some may call odd balls. But as it is there is only like ten or so kids on the team. I however am the odd ball of the team and am as may would call an "Aggie".

[Alexa Stott]

Our team is mostly the types of kids who have tried sports, tried band, tried orchestra, etc., but really didn't quite feel a true passion for it. Instead, they have a passion for science and engineering. Some are honors kids, some are AP kids, some take mostly CP classes. Our team is made up of kids who never really seemed to "fit in" into the jocks, the preps, the band geeks. etc. during middle school and they come to the high school and meet a group of people who they can sit around and have hour-long discussions on the merits of open source software with.

Of course, that isn't to say that we don't have athletes, musicians, or artists on the team. Sure, we have plenty of them. I'm a musician myself (violin), but no matter what our other interests are, we all share the eagerness to learn all about science, technology, and engineering through building robots.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Where is "well rounded" on the list?

I guess that would be "a group not mentioned".

Originally Posted by Pavan

Actually that is an option. "No group has a majority its pretty even."

Actually I meant kids that fit into more than one group. For example, we have band kids that are also athletes or are on Quiz Bowl.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Actually I meant kids that fit into more than one group. For example, we have band kids that are also athletes or are on Quiz Bowl.

This a quiet opinion of mine. Students that make up robotics teams are interested/curious in many areas. They want to know why and why not and what if. They aren't too interested in no, that won't work, or it's good enough. That's a big part of why the engineers and teachers stick with FIRST. (Because they are the same way.) It's a talented, richly diverse, and challenging group - a robotics team. That's what makes it cool.

[Alan Anderson]

Our team makeup is red and blue face paint.

...

Hmm? What's that you say?

Oh, that's very different! Never mind.





Seriously, we have all kinds. I don't think there's any overlap with the football team, but some members haven't been able to attend meetings yet this year because of marching band.