[Riverdance]

Our team also elects student leaders to a five-person student management team consisting of a president, vice president of internal affairs, vice president of public relations, secretary, and treasurer. We go through the entire process from nomination (self-nomination is allowed, but people rarely actually do it) to platform speeches to debate to voting. This all occurs during the spring offseason, and the new officers are announced at the team banquet usually held in June. The new management spends the summer getting used to their new roles and adapting to their responsibilities.

This has worked pretty well for us, though on the downside it does tend to be a bit of a popularity contest. Something that we really like about the system, though, is attendance requirements. In order to run, a candidate must have an attendance of 85%, or else be excused by current management. This weeds out the kids that just want the title and don't want to do the work. We also don't usually have kids with attendance below 60% vote in the elections, as we figure they don't really have a full understanding of our system and what's going on during meetings.