The Struggles of Bigger Teams

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Originally Posted by Tom Line

4. Veteran students (more than 2 years), are NOT ALLLOWED TO TOUCH ANYTHING for the first 3-4 weeks of the season. Their purpose is now to train the new incoming members. You will never have enough mentors for a team over 30 people, so you co-op your experienced members into teaching. Once you hit 'crunch time' as we call it, all bets are off and the experienced members jump in to get 'er done.

Our mantra is that if we're training during build, we've already failed.

We hold a lot of workshops in the fall for new members and the unfortunate reality is that come the end of the first week of January, the train is leaving the station and anyone who didn't get on board back in October is probably going to be less involved than they'd like.

Kids will be building skills they haven't learned to fully utilize yet, but it's incredibly difficult to take someone who has no background in the basics and involve them in a meaningful manner, due to limited mentor hours available.