I think, so that I don't ramble on and on about this, that a good way to get students motivated to try to be a leader is to make them the head of a committee. Not all students can be a project manager, so not all students can be leaders, there has to be a combination. But for the students who take the initiative to try to be a leader, they are the ones who deserve to lead. Plus with leading a committee, they can find an aspect of robotics that they are really interested in, and take it to another level. This makes it so they can lead in one thing they are really good at, but they can also follow in things that they want to help with, like maybe building the robot itself. Our team has committees that have leaders, but the entire team takes turns on working on the actual robot.
