[Celia]

Let me preface this post by saying we are a small team (about 15 students right now). We'll probably get five more later in the year. We have one main mentor.

1. Our mentor orders our parts. For general items (preseason), a pad of paper is passed around to everyone on the team. If there's something you need, you put it on the list.

For kickoff orders, the team reaches consensus on what we need. Then we all check our room and see what we already have. What we still need, our mentor orders. During brainstorming, we will have a student on the computer looking up and pricing our ideas. Doing this simultaneously helps save time and remember everything we need.

2. Team finances are handled by our mentor. For Rebound Rumble, we had a few girls who tried to help, but they got overwhelmed and quit =( If we had students interested in that aspect, they'd handle it. But we don't.

3. If we notice we're out of something, one person will tell our mentor and let the rest of the team know they did so. This is normally avoided by our preseason stock-up (#1).

4. I've been on the team for two seasons, and we have only broken one tool, and I don't even remember what it is. When it happens, we (obviously) try to fix it. If that doesn't work, we notify our mentor. He'll look at it. If we have to, we replace it. We don't lose tools. After you're done with a tool, it goes back in it's designated drawer in the tool chest. With a larger team, I guess it might be more common to lose a tool, but we do not have that problem.