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Originally Posted by KenWittlief

Leadership is a task, its a learned skill. Professionals get training in project leadership, program leadership, department leadership... There is no reason to think that just because someone has been on a team for a given length of time that they will automatically be a good leader.

Some people are good at doing things but are not good at explaining those things to others.

I think the most important thing for your team is that, whoever ends up being your student leader that person is going to need support, training and guidance from professionals who have leadership experience.

You would not expect a student to figure out how to be an engineer all by themselves. The same goes for becoming a team leader.

I'd like to shrapen the issues I brought up. I am not afraid of the demands of being a captain, as being professional that supports, trains, guides or leads, since I've done it this year's 6 weeks of construction. In another sentence, I led a crew of students for competing the Audk Inventor award, while using one of our mentors to advise us of presentation criticism and requirement. There's no problem technically doing whatever it takes, but whether it should be me and whether some else, as far as i concern, it is up to the job. On the one hand, I wish to stay involved with stuff as engineering\drawing and building. While on the other, I fear the captain chair won't leave me time for all of that. The question is, in that context, what are the captain duties?

As said, it was our first year building a robot for First. Before that, we used to compete only with robots ten times smaller, such that required tenth of the manpower we used for the First robot. You probably already understand that for me, or for any teacher that guides FIRST FRC robots teams in Israel that I met up with, the contribution of the captain is not clear.

I would like to hear your opinion in that matter. ty