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Originally Posted by Monochron
We just started having a few appointed student officers for the upcoming year. Team captains are elected by student voting at the end of each year, and then during the fall sub-team leads are appointed by a committee of mentors and student captains.
We made the choice in order to increase effectiveness of our leadership structure. There is almost no way to keep elections from selecting the most charismatic or connected person, and that person may or may not be effective in the position. Appointment by committee (with the students having a say through their elected Captains) seems like a good way to help that effectiveness.
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We tried the same thing this year. It worked really well for our team! The CTO (Chief Technical Officer) side had "build-leaders" that specialized or were group leaders for projects. I was the build leader for CAD this year, and I have to say it was very effective. We had meetings after every build session that was ~15 minutes long about what we did, what we need, if we need any help, and what purchase orders to create so we have cheaper shipping costs.
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) and CAO (Chief Administrative Officer) also had a board of people working on projects and had meetings regularly. CAO, CMO, and CTO are all student elected positions.