[sgreco]

There are lot of ways to get people involved.


There is a great possibility that when your team gets to be over 20 people that you won't get everone to do something significant with the robot. The best way to get a lot of people involved in in the mechanical aspect is to do a lot of prototyping. You can have at least 3 different prototypes happening at once and at least 2 maybe as many as 4 or 5 people on one prototype. This way you can get 15 people all working and learning things. Not only do lots of prototypes get people involved, but it really helps tou learn what the best way to achieve whatever task you want to achieve. On top of this you can hve people working on the things Eric mentioned as well. You can always work on fundraising and thanking sponsors because there are always ways that you can use money.

I don't do the programming on my team, but I recall that we had at least 4 students and 2-3 menotrs working on code at one time (I'm not sure how that worked but it is possible).