Cellphone Use Policy aka Gadgets

The coaches and mentors expect all team members to be fully committed to robotics activities during all team meetings and events. This means that the use of cellphones for anything other than robotics (research, taking photos of the robot, and engineering journaling) are not allowed during robotics meetings. 

Our investment in the Tennessee Robotics Club is significant in both time, money and resources. Being a technology education, we do not discourage the team from using their personal mobile devices during meetings. In fact, we encourage the use of devices for communication, photography and research.

However, when students use their devices to waste team time on social media sites (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram), play video games, and other non-education related activities during team meetings and events, this behavior will be addressed on an individual basis and hopefully, will not continue to be an issue. 

Continual abuse of the mobile device policy will result in the team member not being able to bring their device to team meetings and events.