Growing Team

[michaela.settle]

Thank you all so much! I'm going to share all of these with our coach.

[VKP]

Team 1899 has had as many as 70 members at once on the team, but we are able to make sure everyone has a job to do by, as others have said before me, crating team subdivisions.

We have a dedicated Media team (which focuses on photography and videotaping during meetings and at events), a dedicated programming team, a dedicated web team, and a LARGE PR team.

If you were to make one subdivision of your team, I would make a PR/FundRaising team first. Having a team of people who know all the information about grants, public relations, and money is really beneficial to team organization

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by VKP

We have a dedicated Media team (which focuses on photography and videotaping during meetings and at events),...a dedicated web team, and a LARGE PR team.

Very wise idea, it's always good to be present in your community and get as much P.R. as possible.

I was able to get a picture of our division and sub-division chart as I described in a post above, it should be shown below:



As you can see, each of the four divisions has four sub-divisions. Each division and sub-division is lead by a student, with two C.E.O.'s (one from each of the two school's in our district) above the four division leaders.

I hope this helps! Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions. =)

[MrMurf]

For teams that do sub divisions, do you allow students to be in more than one group so they can experience different aspects of engineering and non engineering? What about groups who seem to have specific lifespans? Ex: What does the chassis team do once the chassis is complete?

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by MrMurf

For teams that do sub divisions, do you allow students to be in more than one group so they can experience different aspects of engineering and non engineering?

Most of our engineering groups only do their engineering-related tasks, but recently we've had some non-engineering groups want to learn how to do other things, which they are allowed to do after their own work is done.

Originally Posted by MrMurf

What about groups who seem to have specific lifespans? Ex: What does the chassis team do once the chassis is complete?

If one group doesn't have work, they usually do miscellaneous work such as button-making, or any task that needs to get done. However, there constant seems to be work, and our chassis team is usually always busy either creating the robot's chassis, creating our test/practice bot's chassis, or fixing one of the two. Our idlers never seem to like to stay in one place for long =P

[EricH]

If a group doesn't have work to do, but another group is running into an issue, you can do a "Tiger Team" with the finished group to come up with alternative solutions. I've been on those more than once when either there was an issue or we hadn't done a detail design due to priorities. Or get some of them to do non-engineering stuff like scouting.