What you need

The rules.

Five things. If you remember these, you know how to stay on the team.

• Show up

  Come on time, in uniform, with your binder. The meeting is one hour, the third Saturday, at 9:30 in the morning.

• Grades

  Keep a B average. Below a B, you pause until the grades come back. Teaching other students is a trust.

• Strikes

  A missed meeting you did not excuse is half a strike. A forgotten binder is half a strike. Misbehavior is one strike. Three strikes in 90 days means you sit out for 90 days.

• Your binder

  Bring it every meeting. It holds your handbook and your planners. A leader keeps their own tools.

• On the mat

  Give the effort you actually have. Stand tall. Be kind to the person having a hard day. Ask before you invent a shortcut.

Where you are going is on the ranks page. How to act like it is with the seven friends.