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Re: Role of Team Captain

Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?
No. I'm a huge believer in servant leadership and having the best qualified person do each job. Just because a person is qualified to lead doesn't mean they will be a good driver. They require two very different skill sets.

What are the responsibilities of your team's team captain?
Everything, as my team jokes "When anything goes wrong, the team captain gets the blame. When everything goes right, we get the credit." We all know it is an over exaggeration, but it is a bit true. As with the President, everything ends with the team captain. Ultimately, he/she is responsible.

How do you form your drive team each year?
Our drivers had to pass two tests. The first was a rule knowledge test (everything from general to little things they may not know) as well as a safety test. More people are "qualified" to drive our robot than the drive team, but this comes in handy when we go out to schools or do demos with Wombot.

What role(s) does your team captain preform on your team?
Last year, everything! This year, things will be different. Once again it comes down to putting the team before yourself and serving them. As a leader, it is your job to make sure the team functions properly.

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Re: Role of Team Captain

1. Our team captain has never been garunteed a position on drive team although many captains have tryed out and obtained the position based on their drive skills or ability to communicate with other teams

2. Our team changed the structure of leadership this year and we now have 2 captains. The team captains help run meetings and can answer many basic questions so the coach is not overloaded. We are the role models of the team and help where ever and whenever needed.

3. We are also changing driver tryouts this year. For the last few years we have tested different ways of choosing drivers and this year is no different we are still in the brainstorming stage of the process.

4. Our captains help where ever needed and step in for certain problems that can be solved before being brought to the attention of our coach or assistant coach. We help keep everyone on task. We also help teach many rookies what FIRST is about and other basics.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

I find that a majority of the time the reason the team captain is a driver is solely because they have usually been around the longest and really understand how to communicate with other teams before/during matches.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

Our team organizational structure is weird, and in the middle of an overhaul. Here are the basics:
For offseason, build season and competition, there is the Triumvirate, made up of three captains (Programming/Electronics, Mechanical, and Finally Animations/ Misc.). The animations captain is the one who signs all the forms for FIRST (like the safety inspection) on account of this year he is one of 2 seniors on the team. The Triumvirate captains are chosen because: 1. They are the most knowledgeable in their area, 2. They know a lot about the other areas.
Underneath the Triumvirate are the School Captains. Since 1178 has 5 schools, we designate someone as the school captain. It really isn't a position, they just update the people at their school as to what is going on.
We are also starting a scouting team, but they will be a separate group, supplemented with info by the drivers.
We choose our drivers by: 1. They usually are programmers, since we are the ones who have the control board, and know what each button does, 2. The coach goes to a person who has shown remarkable knowledge not only about our robot, but the game, field, strategy, etc., 3. The game piece manipulator is either someone who has practiced or volunteers at the last minute.

We are trying not to repeat Breakaway. We never really practiced with the robot and some parts never really worked. During the warm up matches on Thursday at St. Louis, I (a freshman programmer) was asked to come with the coach ( a senior) to stand in on a match while our robot was being inspected. When we actually started to compete our line up was: The Team Captain (Senior, Head programmer, and the actual driver), Me (a freshman, the only other programmer on the team, and the only person with experience on "Weapons" (Kicking, our lift mechanism, etc.)), Our coach (a senior) and the person to pick up the balls (also a senior, decided on at the last minute because they were in the pit.)

Because of this, we started a massive overhaul of our leadership. I am the Programming/ Electronics captain (as a Sophomore), and another Sophomore is the mechanical captain. Our captains tell people what needs to be done, monitor what happens, and talks between teams (last year we had no real communication, sometimes the programmers were waiting for mechanical, or vice versa.)
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Re: Role of Team Captain

At this point, our captains are actually guaranteed not to be a driver. There are so many things going on at the competitions that it is difficult for a captain to be in the position where they are focused on the matches, the judges, and general team operations. It is a completely different story if your team is small, but for larger teams, why not spread around the wealth? We want as many kids as possible to have as much as possible to write on the college apps. Consequently, when it comes to the competition, we try not to overlap the positions of driver, captain, lead programmer, pit manager, etc.

It is very important though that everyone understands this going into the season and they can pick and choose which positions they want to be involved with.
This way, not only is everyone involved to a larger extent, but they will be required to mesh and work as a team and no one person has to be overburdened.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?
Kind of is, but I have only been here 2 years, so that might just have been isolated incidents.
What are the responsibilities of your team's team captain?
To make the "final" decisions for the team. Whether it is design or strategy. However, I am highly opposed to that. It is more like autocratic government than a democracy.
How do you form your drive team each year?
We essentially ask our head mentor and he will say yes or no. From the years I been on the team, it was a leader, programmer and 2 competent drivers. The programmer is there to get direct feed back of actually driving the bot and adjusting the code for better handling.
What role(s) does your team captain preform on your team?
Head honcho. Like I said, I do not like that. The founding fathers made the executive branch have less power for a reason. If one person has the power to make important decisions and or veto them, I believe that is wrong. This constitution set up a government where laws being passed take a long route through the congress because it does not allow the president to make quick rash decisions. All decisions must be well thought through and debated.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?
No, each year the driver, operator, and human player have to earn their positions through tryouts. The student coach is awarded to the student who knows the game the best and works the best with the driver. This year the captain is still allowed to be on the drive team, but due to how much time Chairman's takes, the chairman's presenters are no longer on the drive team.

What are the responsibilities of your team's team captain?
Keep everyone on task. My main job was to be one step ahead of the other students. I needed to know what was coming and where the next step in design would take the team. I was also the "go between" between mentors and students. I also had to know the rules like the back of my hand because many times students would recommend something without comparing it to the rules first.

How do you form your drive team each year?
See above.

What role(s) does your team captain preform on your team?
In my two years on the team and as captain, I served as: lead design, driver one year and student coach the next, chariman's presenter both years, chairman's writer both years, WFA writer one year, and volunteered for outreaches. At the time I loved every minute of my FIRST experience and basically if I saw a need that wasn't being filled, I filled it. Now I wonder how I was able to do so much. My position is that the captain should be willing to do anything for the team, whether that is picking up other students dirty dishes, leading the design team, yelling his/her head off when their robot is competing, or keeping his/her temper when other students are getting frustrated because of the upcoming deadlines. Every role I did I shared with other students. By no means did I do any one role by myself.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

We don't really have any team captains. We just have the people who are best suited for each job and who can handle it do it. If that means they can be in the pits fixing the robot one minute and driving it the next, then so be it. If they can't, then they don't. Simple as that.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

As a team captain I disagree with guaranteeing a drive team position, I would actually discourage a captain from taking a drive team position. Not being on the drive team allows me to watch over our robot from the sidelines, and start a diagnosis of any problems before the match even ends because I am not focusing on driving. another benefit is, because I do not have to retrieve the robot, I can be back in the pits and be ready for battery/bumper swaps and getting ready for any maintenance before the drive team is back.

the goal on our team is to find willing, dedicated drivers, who work well together. We usually do not have time, but if we did, we would defiantly have trials to decide the best drive team.


Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?


No, I was asked to be the driver, but that was based off of my skill. There is no official Guarantee that the captain well be first pick for the drive team.

What are the responsibilities of your team's team captain?

As a captain I helped lead meetings, and debates about robot design. I helped an almost every project during build season, from building the robot/mini bot, to cleaning. I was required to know the robot from top to bottom, and I had to be able to present that information to judges, and members of other teams, as well as apply that knowledge to work in the pits.

How do you form your drive team each year?

Our dive team is usually formed at our first competition, because we rarely have time to hold trials, however if we could we would hold trails.

What role(s) does your team captain preform on your team?


Between being the Pit captain, and team captain, I had to be able to speak with judges, and members of other team. I had to help other members with their own projects, I lead meetings and debates. In general I was asked to lead other members to make sure everyone had something to do, and everyone was having fun.

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Re: Role of Team Captain

Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?

No. For the three years I have been on my team only once has a member in a leadership position been on the drive team and, even, then as the drive coach. I personally like it this way as it allows more members to be involved at tournaments. Sometimes what makes a person a good leader does not make him/her a good drive coach.

What are the responsibilities of your team's team captain? & What role(s) does your team captain preform on your team?

I am the president of my team this year and I can echo what Julia said in her post. The president fills in gaps that he/she sees. This year I have been involved with Chairman's, outreach, and website/social networking. I also take care of paperwork, talking with mentors/parents, checking in with different departments, e-mailing (lot and lots of that), and setting up meetings/outreach events. My team has a project manager for the robot side of the team and department heads to take care of the robot design/fabrication.

How do you form your drive team each year?

Usually, on the last week of build season, we have a drivers test and tryouts. The test consists of general rules and some strategy-related questions. If someone scores high on the drivers test, it can help influence the picking. After the test, the members who would like to drive line up and are given a basic obstacle course to drive around. If the top two drivers are equally matched, we take use the driver's test results and the member's attitude into account.
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Re: Role of Team Captain

In my mind the captain needs to be the most proffesional acting guy on the team along with being able to talk to the other members of the team and decide a plan for the sub groups on the team
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