What can parents do to help?
1. Please do support your son/daughter with:
2. Please consider supporting the team with:
- Parents can help in a number of ways, no special knowledge required!
1. Please do support your son/daughter with:
- Time Management- A big help is simply helping your student to manage their time and busy schedules to be sure to work on their events throughout the year.
- Study Group Meets- Support study meetings with your son/daughter's event partners to work together on their events.
- Review the Rules- Simply read through the rules with your son/daughter to advance understanding. In construction events, ask your them to show how each part of their device meets the regulations listed in the rules (proper dimensions, allowed materials, etc). For test events, is your son/daughter preparing for the event appropriately? If a binder of handwritten notes is allowed, they should not be preparing typed sheets. Again, helping the student to read through the rules for understanding is key. Are necessary supplies available?
- Supplies- As with any sport, your son/daughter will need supplies and resources to successfully compete. A binder to store notes and materials to study, access to a computer to research, field guides and test equipment might be required for their event. For labs and builds, more supplies are needed. The scientific method, especially with builds, can be a process of trial and error, with many iterations (materials!) before mastery is achieved.
2. Please consider supporting the team with:
- Your Time- Parents can also volunteer their time supervising after school meetings, providing snacks, etc. Most students only need a push in the right direction or a way to connect to the proper resources, be it a library, internet, or a member of the community with specialized knowledge.
- At Competition- especially Regional's and State, it is important that our students are able to get to their events (i.e., find the room on a big campus). Alternates and parents can help competitors to successfully navigate campus and manage required resources (did you get your goggles!?). Often, students will have several events back to back and could use help to manage their day. A room captain is necessary to supervise and act as traffic manager.
- Event Coaching- Ideally, each event would have an adult coach willing to work with a small sub-team of 2 - 5 students to learn and master their event. Consider learning an event with your son/daughter and a partner. We will hold general meetings where students can self-study events, but It is ideal for each event to meet separately to focus on learning their event. Builds and labs are best approached scientifically, with multiple iterations and trials to develop mastery.
- Snacks- food feeds the brain and builds community
- Transportation -to and from Tournaments
- Concessions - hold a food handlers card
- Concession Schedule - Fund Raising Fall: October 12th & 19th
- 2017 Parent Permission Form, Event Preference & Schedule
- WHS Volunteer Driver Checklist
- WSD Volunteer Background Check