[d.schneid@1719]

Although being a leader takes away time from building the robot, it is possible to be the leader and work as a regular student. My team was mentor run so I had some time to work as a regular student. Our team was planning on having the students become more and more involved in organization, but since we were a rookie team, being mentor run worked well.

The other thing you could do is either have a co-captain, or simply assign each student a small task such as checking chief delphi, or ordering the team's pizza. Although these types of things are minor, if every student on your team does one thing besides working on the robot, it could help a whole lot and thus allow the team captain more time to do the fun stuff.