Larger Teams of Chief Delphi: How do you manage all your people?

[grem110]

Hi All,
I'm from a fourth year team at a fourth year school, which means this is our first year having students in all grades (we started as all freshmen, then added a grade each year).

Our team is 63 people currently, a staggering 20% of the student body. This is awesome, but crazy. 1/3 of the team is new and so we're investing a lot of time into training them.

Of course attendance will dwindle as people realize they have other commitments or are not interested, but this is by far the largest we've ever been.

Teams of this size or larger, how do you manage so many people?

What do you do to train new members? Mentor-taught or student-taught? How long does it take?

How do you delegate and divide labor so as to give everyone a meaningful task?

If you build a second robot, do younger members (10s and 9s) take charge of assembling the practice bot?

Or any other thoughts...

Thanks!