Forming a team of individuals from different schools
Purpose:
Team formation between schools is intended to allow students who cannot otherwise form a team of up to four Mathletes due to insufficient numbers of deaf and hard-of-hearing students at their school to compete at the RIT Math Competition for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students.
Qualifications/Requirements for Team Formation:
Individual students who form teams must live within 25 miles of each other, and are also subject to all other rules and regulations of the RIT Math Competition. A student who joins such a team can still compete as an individual representing his or her individual school.
Teams can be formed from single students or pairs of students who come from schools where there are not enough deaf and hard-of-hearing students to form a team of four.
Example: If there is a single deaf or hard-of-hearing student at one school, he or she can join a group of three from another school (the group of three can be from a public school or a residential school).
Example: A pair of deaf and hard-of-hearing students can join another pair from another school (public or residential) to form a team of four.
Example: Four single deaf and hard-of-hearing students from four different schools can form a team of four
In all cases, all the students, coaches, and schools involved will need to agree to work together before the team is formed.
Teams must create their own team name, subject to the Math Competition coordinator’s approval. Team names cannot contain profanity, racial or ethnic slurs, references to drugs, sex, or alcohol or any kind of offensive language.
The coordinator of the Math Competition reserves the right not to accept proposed teams.
Procedure:
The Math Competition Coordinator will contact the coaches/TODs of individual students who ask to join a team and work with them until a single coach is chosen. Whoever is selected to be the coach is responsible for running local practices. The Math Competition Coordinator will facilitate the initial contact and communication between students and coaches of teams, but it is the responsibility of the local coach to assume and facilitate regular and consistent contact/communication. Teams will be run and will compete in the same manner as single school teams.
If a team comprised of two or more schools wins a round, they will be given individual trophies, and then the Math Competition coordinator will ask them how they would like to handle the big, team trophy. (Schools can share the trophy, or more can be ordered for each student; the coordinator will accommodate their request).
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