Robotics letters

[J Flex 188]

i have to say, that is a pretty neat idea.. i think part of the "problem" in canada, is that there arent many strictly varsity teams compared to the US. theres usually a division of junior senior, and varsity usually only runs if there arent enough people to fill up the spots on either team. but for some sports like hockey, its just a team.. not necessarily called varsity. As far as i know, i havent seen any public schools have anything like that. maybe private or catholic schools, but not anything in the TDSB.

I do love the idea though = D

[Huskie65]

Team 65 has varsity letters! This is the first year.

[kmcclary]

Originally posted by Huskie65
Team 65 has varsity letters! This is the first year.

Cool! We're working on one now. However, the school is requesting a full, FORMAL proposal of the EXACT requirements for them to evaluate.

Everyone, please post your requirements for your robotics letter. We need to see how others do it, so we can write a great proposal!

Thanks!

- Keith

[MissAbi]

We give out letters to our rookie members. In order to recieve your varsity letter you must participate during the off season with community service and fundraising and have relatively good attendance at the meetings. If you past the offseason requirements, you are allowed to participate in build. Once again you must regularly attend the meeting and contribute quality work. Finally, participation during build season determines participation at competition. If you pass all three stages and you maintain a 3.0 GPA, you earn your letter. Keith, if you'd like a more detailed list of requirments, chack out what our letter looks like, or would like to talk to me more about it, e-mail me.

[Huskie65]

To Get a Varsity Letter on our team you have to be on for at least three years.

[Beth Sweet]

In both of the schools in our district, you get a letter for HOT Team. That's actually the sole reason that most of the people on our team have their coats. Most either have HOT Team or FIRST Robotics written across the back of them.

[epfaffli]

Ok, so what are the requirements at your school to get a Varsity Letter? I also need school names with Town and State to use with our request for Varsity Letters.

Thanks

[Tonya Scott 476]

hello everyone,

our school has granted us letters!

Another victory for FIRST and the kids involved.

Tonya Scott
Team 476
Ponca City High School
Ponca City, Oklahoma

[Pat McCarthy]

I've got the letter, and need to get my butt to the store and buy a jacket.

[KTorak]

Time to revisit an old thread...

This year, our coach approached our Athletic Director about issuing Varisty Letters to robotics students. Our Athletic Director requested a written set of criteria to award them, in which he (and us) would present to our Board of Education for approval. However, I am looking into guidelines for issuing them. In Marching Band for instance, we only must have so many attendence points - every practice/performance is so many points.

As of now, I have drafted a list of what I think should be mentioned as a requirement:
- Attend say 90% of all meetings pertaining to your sub group.
- Make atleast one sponsor presentation.
- Participate in atleast one fundraiser.
- Mail atleast 2 business letters for sponsorship.
- And some sort of GPA requirement.

What are some other requirements that other teams have adopted? Also, do any teams have a version of their criteria that they would be willing to share?

Thanks

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by KTorak

As of now, I have drafted a list of what I think should be mentioned as a requirement:
- Attend say 90% of all meetings pertaining to your sub group.
- Make atleast one sponsor presentation.
- Participate in atleast one fundraiser.
- Mail atleast 2 business letters for sponsorship.
- And some sort of GPA requirement.

You should consider more of a combination of the above except for the GPA part. Put your team's activities into categories and then assign values to the activities. Then use the Attendance/Participation system like is used for band. Maybe a team member can't make 40% of his sub-teams meetings, but he is a cracker-jack at making sponsor presentations and does 15. He might not get the full value of points for his sub-team, but would get extra points for his sponsor presentations. That way each member of the team can really show their strengths.
The reason for no GPA requirement is that that should be already taken into account for team participation. Most schools have academic eligibility / ineligibility rules. If a less than stellar student is meeting those requirements to be on the team, he should be eligible for full recognition of his efforts.

[epfaffli]

For Allen Park High School and St Frances Cabrini High School, we use the following criteria for a Varsity Athletic Letter:

1. 100 Hours of participation during the school year.
2. 2 Promotional / Extra events
3. Active Participation at Competition
4. Academics
a. C or better in all classes
b. No attendance concern

It's worked for us.

[epfaffli]

On the back of the student's jackets, they put:

815 Robotics

I would like to see FIRST come up with a FIRST Logo patch for the Jackets.

[Athleticgirl389]

Last year was the first time our team ever did varsity letters... I came to the parents with the idea and they were all for it. Besides the fact our school won't recognize us, we thought if we go out on our own and get letter and put them on, it would be really kool. And it worked out really well! Since it was the first year, at our team banquet, those studets who got an award given by the parents/board got a letter. They said they will be looking to make a better guideline this year for giving letters out.

I know I can't wait to get my letter on my jacket... because I've done a sport the past 4 years and am on varisty so I aleady had the jacket... now my jacket will just be eve kooler with a Robotics (Team 102) varsity letter haha.

[amos229]

People have brought up that robotics isnt a traditional sport. In a traditional sport there is physical activity such as running. well in robotics the human player is often physically strained. look at triple play for instance. as a human player I was running windsprints everycompetition 30 times a day. now if that doesnt make it a sport then i dont know what is.