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Re: Team organizational models

At our school the management for the levels we have, usually can change. This happens more for the younger levels that are based on parent support as well as faculty support.

For us our JFLL team i think is currently looking for a new mentor, but before that the team was led by a fairly technical husband-wife couple, who had a child on the team, and the husband is a faculty member.
FLL is now going to be run by them along with a technical mentor who is an alumni of our school, in the past FLL has been run by technical parent-mentors.

We don't have FTC, but we do have VEX. FRC and VEX is run mostly student based with FRC having management help from a technical alumni mentor. Our faculty advisor helps us in relations with the school, our finances, and other administrative things but does not help with the building of the robot.


I think the main thing i see is that for younger teams sometimes finding faculty is hard. There usually is some parent, mentor, or a faculty member who can help, and they are usually very very good for that program.
The older programs can be run with much less help on the faculty/parent part, however sometimes they are still very helpful to get new teams off the ground
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