The Struggles of Bigger Teams

[SarahBeth]

I'm interested in responses to this thread too. We have a medium-ish size team (between 32 and 40 last season) and had 17 new kids show up for our mixer the other night! Which is awesome, we lost 10 seniors last year, and having more kids is always good.

But we even have run into problems last year with not having enough for the kids to do after about week 3 when we're waiting on parts, etc, which causes the kids to goof off or go into another classroom that's attached to our build room with computers in it under the guise of doing homework or scouting, and instead played minecraft or hung out on facebook for 3 hours. (Wow that was a run on sentence - sorry) And we couldn't send them home because a lot of them relied on their parents coming to get them at a certain time.

We're trying to nip this in the bud this year by starting things early and having things that the kids can fall back on during the year (Logo design, pit design, programming, etc). So we'll see how it goes. We're also coming up with a handbook of rules and regulations and consequences - I'd recommend putting something like that together if you don't have one already.