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Originally Posted by bludeath

I have always preached that FRC is a high school level program so high school students should be participating.But my long term goal for this team is to keep it classy as far as strong team effort and student participation goes.

One thing i was looking into was a gantt chart. A way to keep a organized workflow and time various tasks and set dead lines for various things within the project. I Just wanted to see if any other team out there was using the same method and if they found it effective or not?

Student participation is very important and you are striving towards an awesome goal in increasing student participation on your FRC team, but also part of FIRST is students working alongside mentors. Mentors are always there to help students and guide them during stressful situations throughout the season and during competition. I'm not saying your forgetting this key idea, I'm just emphasizing it.

As for gantt charts, Team 2052 KnightKrawler used the gantter plugin for google drive during the 2015 build season. As a team we never got to a consensus on whether or not it was useful, but it did a pretty good job at keeping our team leaders up to date on tasks to do during build season. I'd recommend your team to try it out(Possibly test it out with an offseason project or project of some sorts to see whether it suits your team or not). Here is a thread on gantt charts and how other teams thought they were useful or ineffective(Along with example charts used by other teams).