[Wolfe]

Wow. some incredibly organised team leadership here. In my experience as team leader, it's all really quite unnecessary.
What is key, is a small team. really small. we did it with 30 and 2.5 mentors. a small construction group especially. maybee 10 or so dedicated people. no cheerleading team. no strategy team. no driving team. a small PR team.

you should rarely if ever have to call meetings. the idea is that once you delegate your sub-teams, they meet however often they want. whole team meetings are to be avoided. they are boring and they really suck. even if there are doughnuts.

Worst thing you can try to do is get everyone's opinion on what the robot should do. This is not a democracy, the construction team decides what the robot does since they are builing it.
DON'T TRY TO HEAR WHAT EVERYONE ON THE TEAM HAS TO SAY!

The harddest part is deciding on the general robot design. Do it quickly. Write stuff on the board or peopel will start repeatign themselves. Don't listen to someone if they are being stupid, they are wasting oyur time and you don't need to respect thier opinion. First, decide generally on what it has to do, split up teams to deicde rough how to do each functon and then whoever has good ideas can design the component.

The robot gets built on a volutary basis, everyone knows what neeeds to get done and does it. If they don't have the initiative or the will, they will give up and go home. More work gets done when there are 5-7 people working.

As far as beign team leader. try to make it so you end up doing as little as possible. If you ever feel like interfeering with your team put your hand in a vice, and tighten it until the feeling passes. If you want some work to get done, do it yourself. If people don't know what others are doing, then your construction team is too big.

The most important thing to do as team leader is pick the people so you will have to do the least ammount of work possible. this is a small team. Only organise people if it is totally unavoidable. They will generally organise themselves.

As a testament to this method, our team won a regional event. They organised themselves and we build the robot very efficiently. Although I rarely knew exactly what was going on, I always knew it was going as it should.

as a team leader KEEP A SMALL TEAM AND THEN DO NOTHING!