[Wetzel]

I have a two-way suggestion that might help determine a suspect.

1. They don't care about the team as shown by their theft of things. This means they are more likely to skip meetings to do other things.

2. They do care about the team, and that makes them open to guilt trips about what they did.


Our team has a shop area that is locked and only a few adults have a key to it, so things can't disappear between meetings. Within that shop we have a school closet/wardrobe thing that is locked. In there we keep the software, team credit card, and student info stuff. To my knowledge, we havn't had a problem with people stealing stuff, but only with overzelous shop cleanings by new shop managers who didn't know that those funny connectors he threw out were $300 worth of parts.

Things also often get tossed somewhere in the shop by someone who dosn't know where they are suppost to go, and they get found a week later. If you havn't, I would suggest asking

Our team works within one room, with the shop area in the back corner of it. The openness makes it hard for someone to just walk off with significat parts. Our animation team brings their personal computers in from home, so no incentive there.


An open work area, everyone working together and friendly communication are our best defense against theft, as well as one of our greater assests as a team.


Wetzel