How to Best Manage a Small Team

[Addison4300]

My first year of doing FIRST in 2013, our team consisted of about 8 members. It was quite difficult for us to get anything done as we didn't have enough hands for the job. Our team has grown since then to a whopping 20 members! We have our Teacher sponsor, 4 mentors from Emerson, a mentor from Raytheon, and 2 team captains, another member and myself. It is quite difficult to manage our team but we found splitting the team into 2 different teams, 1 for build, 1 for programming/cad/business works very well! We use 1 of our captains to monitor Programming, and the other to monitor the build team.