Student Participation Agreement

[GMKlenklen]

I want to thank you all again for posting here, it will be a big help!

As it may be important, I would like to give a brief history of 2167, and perhaps this will answer some of your questions.

First off, 2167 is comprised of students from the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics, and Computing. This is a residential high school program that essentially replaces the last two years of high school with the first two years of college at Northwest Missouri State University (which is your average small state college... with a great band and education program). There are entrance requirements that essentially set the demographic of students who have found their high school too easy, unchanging, and boring. to remain a student at the academy, you must keep a college GPA of 2.75 or greater, fail no more than one class, and avoid being expelled for non-academic issues. Because it's a residential system, they have a privilege system that grants extra freedoms to students with a GPA at or above 3.25

Last year, I started the academy's first ever robotics program, and proceeded to lead a pre-season lego competition. The idea was to get everyone in the mindset for build season. unfortunately, the majority of the team did not respond well to this, and meetings where more like waisted time. Come build season, we still did not have a professional mentor, and I comprised about 95% of the knowledge about any given game rule. though the first week of build season we conducted productive design and strategy meetings, I was commonly the only one "available" to work on the robot despite the fact that the robot room was open for team members to build from 4pm to 6pm every day. after about 4 weeks, I had spent too much time worrying about the fate of the team, and not enough on learning calculus, or staying awake during Chemestry 2. The Dean of Student Development then decided that it would behoove me to quit all affiliation with the robotics team for the remainder of that semester. At this point, our vice president, who helped me start the team took controll, and somehow everyone finally figured out that the robot wouldn't build it's self. The team went on to compete in the St. Louis regional, and receive "medallions of failure" as one team member jokingly called them.

This year, my GPA is 2.83, and is too low to think about leading any clubs or organizations. I passed the power to our two most active members. Also, the Dean of Student Development decided that he should advise the club, seeing as we spent $11,500 of our $9,500 "projected budget". This year, our budget is $9,000 (if I'm not mistaken). And, as I mentioned before, the new team leadership has taken two steps towards fixing the attendance issues.

If I where still team leader (Grad Master, under the constitution set out at the beginning of last year) I would be confidant that because we have 100% of our members who have not graduated from the academy returning, they will spread the message and need of attending build meetings to our new students. Also, I would amend to the constitution a need for all members to sign a contract stating that they are aware of the commitment that the task requires to be done correctly, and that they plan to contribute as much as they can, within reason.

And if you'd like to skip all that text...

I would still like to see an actual example of another team's student agreement!

And Also, I want to ask all of you if it would be alright for me to quote your statements, as I try to persuade our advisor.

Thanks so much,
Mason