How is your team run?

In random conversations with people, I have heard that some teams act like a family and treat the other members like a family, so the team is like a family,

on the other hand

some teams keep thing professional and treat each other like a co-worker, thus making the team seem like a large buisness, or corporation.

So, how does your team run?

[Trashed20]

our team is more like a family, but some are trying to make it buisness like. It is only our 2nd year with our current sponsor and we laid down some groundwork this year and we have an engineer that wants to completely controll the students, and 4 others who like it how it is. Its caused some problems, but we'll get through it like a family would, forgive and forget. We aren't going to sue anyone buisness style

[DanLevin247]

Our team is currently being run like a business, but to tell you the truth, it's not working out very well, last year, it was like a family, and it was a lot better.

[Adam Y.]

Our team is run like a big family.

[Andy A.]

Our team, on paper, is run like a business.

In realitly theres only about 20 people who really show up for the build sessions, and they are so close it might as well function like a family. The business aspect really only applies to the fund raising group, which I suppose is the right mentality for them to have.

-Andy A.

[Aaron Lussier]

The Business Side of our team is run... well like a business. That includes: Events, Sterring comitee, Budget Comitee and All hands meetings. Before the six weeks we run everything like a corporation so we can weed out the people who really dont want to be there. During the six weeks we run The build like a family everybody knows evrebody elses name and we usually go out to somewhere after we finish the build every Fri. or so. By regionals were a well oiled machine thatknow every thing about everybody else on the team.

[Chris Nowak]

A very dysfunctional family.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by Chris Nowak
A very dysfunctional family.

I am going to have to lean towards that with our team... plus a couple of dictators.....

[hacksaw692]

i suppose my team is a mix of the two. we act all business like before the parents, teachers, and our moderator and sometimes during meetings (it's not always granted to happen that way... too many random things go on). but things need to get done after all.

in all actuality, we are a family. a lot of the new recruites are personal close friends and those from last year have formed a bond. a dysfunctional family sounds about right. just don't tell our moderator that.

[Gope]

the Baxter Bomb Squad works differently. We are run based on athority. The more knowledgeable or the more expierence u ahve the more athority you have. But we manage to maintain a very open relaxed atmosphere where everyone's opinions count. So we are different from any faimly or buisness i've ever seen.

[RBrandy]

We want to be one big family but 1 person on our team is kind of taking the fun that we used to have.

Last year we had a great team. Everyone got along and I loved being on the team. Now today we have to fill out grade sheets every 2 weeks, the students dont have much power on the team at all, and if we talk to the "dictator" he gets mad and has a dumb reason for it.

Wheres the fun in that?

[Katie Reynolds]

2000 - Family. Totally. That year rocked ... it was awesome.

2001 - Family feud. It was no fun, everyone hated everyone else ... yeah, don't do that.

2002 - Business. We did well, and it was a good year. Still not as good as 2000, though - but at least no one was fighting!

2003 - The jury's still out on this year ... we're waiting to see how we'll be running things. Hopefully, we can get back to being a family again.

On a personal note, I liked it better when the team was run as a family. I wasn't on the team then (my rookie year was 2001), but even seeing the team from the outside ... and hearing the stories about that year ... it was fun. People enjoyed themselves. I want, so badly, for our team to be like a family again -- I could care less if we placed last at every event we went to, so long as everyone was learning and having fun ... that's what it's all about. Having fun and learning.

**chucks $0.02 into a bucket**

- Katie

[Gadget470]

was run like a family

[Amanda Aldridge]

Team 71 is run like a family -- of course, Mr. Bill is the father and the final decision-maker. But we are like a family year-round, both in and out of robotics. We go bowling, go to the movies, have movie nights at people's houses, and generally just hang out together as a group. Alumni are included too, which is great!

[pauluffel]

The team I was on last year was like a family with our mentors as the parentals and the team leader as the oldest child. Our students leader had authority over most anything that happened because he the only veteran of FIRST. This year my team is again a family with the student leader as the authority again because I"m the only veteran builder.

How do you other teams chose your leaders?