[M. Lillis]

Our team, in the past few years, has been structured as a democracy. At the end of the year students are allowed to run for a leadership position on one of the various sub teams (Mechanical, Electrical, CAD, Media, and Fundraising). The other position is the leader of the team, who takes on various roles. The nominees all write paragraphs about why they are the best for the position. These paragraphs are compiled on a Google Docs Form and the voting is done online.

The team structure is debated heavily every year, but it generally stays the same. The only changes that we've made to the leadership hierarchy in the last 3 years were moving from 2 co-leaders (2011) to 1 leader and an assistant (2012) and next year will be just a single leader and no assistant (2013).

The team leader's role is to start meetings, send emails to the team, plan for travel (i.e. busing, hotels, permission slips), check on different sub teams, keep everyone on task, and carry out various other tasks.

Each sub team is pretty self explanatory, but from 2011 to 2012 we combined video and website sub-teams into one, called "Media."

On a side note: there are many mentors on the team. Each sub team has at least one mentor, but Mechanical has the most, mainly because the majority of our mentors are engineers.