The Struggles of Bigger Teams

[Jay O'Donnell]

An interesting situation that's for sure...

1058 grew exponentially during 2010 when we one our first regional, but since then our team has become smaller once more (as stated by my teammate above) having seen both a team of about 30 members and a team of less than 10 members, there are definitely pros and cons to each side. Being a bigger team does mean people will have less to do, but you will also have more minds working and more people to do certain tasks. I'd suggest maintaining a reasonable and safe amount of kids to work in the pits,(not kicking the other kids out, just keeping it safe and maintaining your pit space) make a full scouting team, a safety commitee, get some kids to work on PR and communications, and other various tasks. When it comes to build season, I personally would make sure that kids are always either doing something or being taught something. Just because you can't be fixing or building certain things doesn't mean you can't learn from it.


Hope that helps!