FIRST rule regarding team membership

[Matt382]

Originally Posted by EricH

Again, there is no rule. A team can be as inclusive or exclusive as they so desire.

I know of a team that for a year or two allowed 8th grade students onto the team. After that, the lower age limit moved back up to 9th grade.

FIRST does not care where the students come from that are on a team. They care more that there are students on a team, and maybe even how many there are.

Actually I got on our team as an 8th grader because it was the first year our team started and they needed a few more kids interested. That year, our team got no support from our high school but we still included them in our team name. The year after that the age limit became 9th grade. Now that we managed to migrate into our high school, our principal is limiting our team to 10-12 grades because our high school is 10-12 and our 9th graders are at the middle school. We started a tech team for them this year.