Question: Team practices to promote/support academics

[Devon27]

Our team has study time for every mandatory meeting (about 3 times a week) so school gets out at 2:30, study time starts officially at 3:30 but we can stay after school and do homework for the hour before study time if we want. Study time ends at 4:30 then we start doing whatever we are supposed to work on. We also have progress reports filled out every week or two. If grades are lower than a C- the student is put into "academic lock down" (all they can do for the whole meeting is homework or study) until there grades are higher. If there is a big concern about a test or project a student can ask to be put in academic lock down or they can choose to take one of their three personal days. Also, when we are at competitions, for everyday we miss school we are required to do 2 hours of study time. I think that study time is very helpful because you can get help from people who took the class before or who are in the class if you need help.

[popnbrown]

Our team offers to all of its members, free tutoring to those that require it. Many of the experienced team members have taken most of the core courses are school offers and assist those new members that are finding it difficult to manage time between Robotics and their schoolwork. However, we feel that it is really difficult and unecessary to divert resources into monitoring members' academic progress. Therefore, it is upto those members of the team to ask for help and is usually provided with it.
Although we do have an attendance policy in place, it is not so strict, that a member of the team would not be able to work on a project or study. The students that participate in the team, are all fully aware that they must use their own time management, and to the new members of the team, we are usually lenient.