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Originally Posted by Drivencrazy
If you have 40 people show up to kickoff next January with relatively no idea what is going on you will most likely have chaos on your hands.
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Meet maybe 6-10 times between start of school and mid-December, and have people actually build a robot. That way, everyone learns the exact skills they need for Build Season, so after Kickoff and Design Week, you can get to work without having to teach everyone how to (name a task).
Design Week is written about many times on CD, do some searching to get an idea on how to spend your first week after Kickoff.
If the Design is done well (and that's not easy) you end up with many "components" that are parts of an "Assembly" which makes up a subsystem (like Drivetrain, manipulator, control system, etc.).
If each team member gets a piece of paper with the design specs for a Component, you send them off to go fabricate it, and they are busy until they are done. It takes someone who can keep track of a million details, make sure people are working and not goofing off, that the time & weight budget aren't slipping, and more (known as a Project manager).
So the trick is to keep handing out papers that tell people what to work on next, to keep them busy. Very hard to do, but if you can pull some of that off, you'll be very pleased with the results.
+1 on Subteams BTW. Electrical also handles Pneumatics.