Big teams

[rachelholladay]

This is on a bit of a different note but highly related. We are a growing team, with this past year having under forty students. We have a system of officers (president, vp, secretary, historian, treasurer) and captains (strategy, safety, controls, challenge, chassis, animation, CAD). What we find is that a lot of new students tend to just join the mechanical teams, chassis and challenge. Sometimes, there are too many students and just not enough jobs. (there are only so many sets of Allen keys!) We would really like some of these students in different areas, like video, CAD, etc. It was not as much of a problem this year, but we see developing more into an issue. We don't want to assign people to teams for the obvious reasons. I guess we are wondering how the big teams make sure there is the appropriate amount of people working on each subteam.