[EricH]

Subteams is actually a pretty good way to keep things organized. However, you have to use some caution when putting people on them; put someone who just wants to program onto mechanical and look out!

What you can do is have everyone list their top two-three subteams. If you have too many in one, you can bump a few to their second one which has fewer.

Suggested subteam breakdown: Mechanical (which includes Drivetrain and Scoring Device subteams), Electrical, Programming, Everything Else. It should be noted that Everything Else is your marketing, fundraising, and such-like groups, which will presumably be rather small for a while. They can split out later as you grow. The most critical subteams on the list? Drivetrain and Everything Else.

You'll also need to talk between subteams quite often. In fact, you should probably go as a full team until after Week 1 of build, to make sure that everyone's on the same page with what's happening. Every subteam needs to talk to every other subteam that interfaces with them quite regularly.