Welcome to FIRST...
Hope you and your team can have many sucessful and fun (i'm sure they will be) years ahead
Since your in Michigan and my team is in Indiana we cant help much in the physical building aspect of this whole thing...but one thing that i can help with is this...
TechnoKat Team Handbook (PDF file)
TechnoKat Team Handbook (Word DOC file)
It's basically what it says; its a team handbook that tells about team organization and team guidelines and so on...
This has proven to be very helpful for our team and your team is welcome to use it and modify it for your own use... (if i'm not mistaken a few other teams have used it and liked it quite a bit)
Hope that helps some.