[bigDICK]

I'm a little jealous if I'm honest. I'm going to guess that the junior high I went to still doesn't have the resources for a club like this.

[yardie]

I started a First Team at our son's school. It was challenging. Raising the money to buy the kits and equipment was the easiest part despite our school board not having anything budgeted to it. Beyond myself, we could not get any of the other parents to commit any time to it. So we struggled and eventually collapsed. The other parents were treating it as a free afterschool program. 20 kids, 3 volunteers (1 parent, 2 teachers) and not a lot of time to teach FLL and programming concepts.

[otoburb]

>>Beyond myself, we could not get any of the other parents to commit any time to it.

Thank you for your efforts. I was thinking of starting a team myself in a couple of years when my children are older, and have seen other fledgling STEM programs struggle with the same issue.

Was the primary issue that parents didn't commit time at home working on the projects, or that the parents didn't commit enough time after-school? I've seen more struggles with the latter issue, and the only solution we are converging on is strictly limiting the number of participants to a more manageable size (e.g. 8-10 kids, starting with 1 grade).

[20years]

I am sorry to hear this. I really do not understand why schools and parents don't support this kind of stuff. It teaches them so much more than just robotics. 20 kids seems like a lot. I try to keep my clubs small in order to keep it manageable.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

This is very disappointing.

I'm wondering if I should reach out to my alma matter and see what they need.

[akhilcacharya]

Same here. People at my high school and middle school had zero interest in this sort of thing even if I was able to come up with a club for it.