[Kyle Love]

The TechnoKats run similar to a government. We have the adult leaders and then student leaders. Under adult and student leaders there are specified positions; Team Leader, Co-Team Leader, Mechanical Leader, Electrical Leader, Software Leader, Spirit Leader, Scout Chief and Pit Boss. All of these positions have a student and an adult leader, basically they work together to get stuff done. All of the people are elected (except the adult roles, mostly they volunteer for those positions). The student leaders are elected by the team.

There is always trouble with the people who either aren't outgoing enough to get in the mix and do stuff, or are just lazy. What I have learned to do in the past two years of being student team lead, is to find something not too technically difficult (for instance if software team has nothing to do, but mechanical is swamped) have them cut some aluminum parts for the robot. Just start handing out tasks. Sure, they may not always complete the task, but if you keep nudging them to get out there and do something, they will eventually just start doing it with out you nudging them. You have to be careful to come at the right "angle of attack". Don't go over to them and scream "GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND DO SOMETHING!", just go over and nicely ask them what they would like to do, if they saying I don't know, then give them something that might interest them. If you want more info or more of my opinion just PM me.