Making Leaders and Teamers in FIRST

[bardd]

The way we go about it is we give the younger members responsibilities and opportunities to lead. Now subteams, but little projects. For example, say we want to build and test three prototypes, instead of having the team leaders supervise the build, we let sophomores or juniors lead the build (there are usually 3-4 people on each project), and the team and subteam leaders just move between the groups and look to make sure it's done properly, give advice and correct when something is done wrong. This way they all get experience in leading. We try to give everyone the opportunity to lead.