[OSU_Springer]

Our team (677 - Murphy's Outlaws) runs somewhat similar to those already mentioned. We actually have two teams, one of mentors and one of students. This is done due to the HS students being mentored by a Ohio State collegiate group. We have the following structure:

Team Leads (College & HS) - Usually 2-3 people from both groups, responsible for all administrative tasks and keeping people on task. College leads make final decisions on design when subteams need advice or can not come to a conclusion.

CDTs (Component Design Teams) - Both College mentors and HS students broken down to these sub-teams. Each sub-team has its own lead person (both collegiate and HS).

Chassis - Responsible for designing and building the chassis and drivetrain
Hardware- Responsible for all electrical and pneumatic components
Software - Responsible for writing and testing all software/code
Mechanism - Responsible for the design and construction of the game manipulator(s)

We also have other sub-teams that borrow people occasionally from these aforementioned CDTs for Awards, PR, Business (Marketing), etc.

Our team typically numbers 30-40 girls and 10-15 mentors. We typically build two robots (one for practice) and two mechanisms. The team comes a conclusion in the last week of build to determine which mechanism will be the competition version, and be shipped with the 'bot.

Our biggest problem is knowledge retention, since every year we lose mentors (college kids do eventually graduate and move on to real jobs) and HS seniors graduating.