1629 has always had a "core" group of students that contribute the most t the team, however, by using groups as james describes:
Quote:
|
Because not everyone is interested in ALL aspects of technology at the beginning of each year we do a brief over-view of most of them then the students devide into the different groups (electrical, programming, mechanical, etc.) then our mentors who are most fimiliar with those "sections" lead the groups, and the students and mentors work together in their seperate groups then once a week we "combine" groups to "put it all together"... It seems to work fairly well... It makes fixing the problems easier too because if its programming then you have "experts" working on it... Same with elect. mech. etc.
|
And by giving all of the members homework assignments in between meetings,for example the last one was what does The Engineering Inspiration award mean to you. In this way all the students can participate in a discussion. But you must remember that not all members of the team have to be working on the robot there are award submission, buttons, decorations and countless other things to be done. The fact is that some students will always overachieve but this doesn't mean that others won't once they find there niche.