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We have three mentors who are the leaders of the team in all decisions. A lot of this authority is delegated to our Core Leadership Team (mix of parents and students, but small 6-8 at most). CLT does most of the planning and decision making.

For team meetings, again the mentors share responsibility for leading the areas they are experts in. We have no student leadership positions, instead we expect the most mature students to naturally become leaders of the areas they work in.

During competition, we designate students as pit lead, scouting lead, drive team members, and awards/judge team.

We've found this loose confederation of students works pretty good with our small team (15-20 students 3-5 mentors). YMMV