[Blue_Mist]

On the bright side, everyone's enthusiastic! We don't really have a single team leader. Our "Captain," is basically team representative at competition alliance pickings. He happens to be our driver, who knows about other teams and is very experienced. For team leadership, our team actually has two Co-Presidents, elected at the end of summer each year. Tamara handles papers with the help of her mother (and eternal thanks to both of them), Nick organizes meetings/build sessions, both of them are the main people who talk to principals/teachers and of course, both of them are very deeply devoted to every aspect of Robotics and FIRST, especially Gracious Professionalism. We never organized this; it just happens to be where they are talented and what needs to be done.

Just try not to exclude anyone, and it will all (most of the time) work out. The leaders are usually those who get along with others and will help others to get along.

What our team does instead of assigning people into subteams is have people volunteer to lead individual aspects of the robot. We have people who are more talented (and willing) leading and working in CAD, Programming, Electronics, various Apparati (2007 ramp team/arm team), Drive Train, etc. It's also very helpful to have at least one person in charge of safety. The entire team helps to design in a few marathon design sessions and then later continuously tweaks, but we try to avoid major changes.

Sorry it's been long winded. Your English is good, and have fun in FIRST and Chief Delphi! That's the important part, anyway.