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Re: Team Size

There are teams that are too big, and there are teams that are too small. There are probably teams that are too big with fewer members than other teams that are too small.

The appropriate size for your team is a function of a number of variables, the most important of which are resources. If you have a big enough budget, enough space, and enough dedicated mentors (including one "big enough" to tie it all together), you can have a team of 100 members building robots, doing videos, award presentations, outreach, and mentoring of other teams and be looking for more members. If you have a $10k budget, a single car garage for a build site, and one mentor, ten student members building robots Jan-May and writing awards and doing outreach Aug-Dec may be too many.

Grow your team resources as you grow your team membership.
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Last edited by GeeTwo : 04-05-2016 at 17:27. Reason: changed "more" to "fewer" in second sentence
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