[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).

[yardie]

As far as I know First isn't really a take home project thing. The kits were in the school computer lab. So it was strictly after school. At the end of the first year we decided that 10 students would be the limit (5 teams, 2 per) for the upcoming school year. Sadly, the afterschool teacher that was driving it transferred to another site. And, as a volunteer, I can only provide time and mentoring, not leadership.