Elite (invite only) FIRST teams

[Melissa Nute]

Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

To those who are complaining about the application process,This team will NOT be school affiliated. It will have participants from schools but it will not be a "SCHOOL" team. It will be an extra curricular activity so there aren't even 10000 people to choose from, ONLY those interested enough that want to apply to this program and show that they meet X standards will make a strong team with some knowledge starting off which is better than having 50 people on your team but only 5 that can identify the difference between a standard and metric crescent wrench when it comes competition time.


Pavan

This is going to have issues come competition season when you need to get students out to attend. Schools will have to be affiliated with some support of the team otherwise the students are going to be in bad shape when they are missing classes due to FIRST events. A school official has to take care of the necessary paperwork to approve the time off for the students.