Ingredients to having a successful team:
- As many motivated students as you can get your hands on
- Unmotivated students don't get the job done
- As many motivated mentors as you can get your hands on
- Unmotivated mentors don't get the job done
- If your working out of a school, an active and enthusastic school liason, teacher, advisor, ect.
- A consistent place/time to meet
- If you meet in different places some people will get confused and never show up
- A solid place to share information
- Team Website
- Team Forum
- Google/Yahoo Group?
- Google Calendar?
- Google has a lot of productivity tools you can use, they do a good job in working them all together
- Information on who you have working with you
- Forms are good for this
- Online forms are best for this
- Wufoo.com is your new best friend (the free accounts are sufficent for just about everything)
- Get parents involved
- Parents provide: Food, Potential Sponsorships, Help where you need it, and possibly a mentor
Do all of this, and you will have a well organized team, organization is the foundation for any team, and bad organization leads to bad (defunct teams) Remember, the best team is one that makes it to competition.