Advice for new Technical Lead

[Thayer McCollum]

I would say that one of the most important things that you can do is to ask questions. Every team is full of excellent, intelligent students and mentors who know a lot individually. But your team as a collective will know a lot more, so find out who knows what. As a freshman I got put in charge of designing our manipulator, and it was awful. I didn't get any help with anything, but a large part of that was because I didn't know how to ask for the help I needed. So I would suggest that you start finding out what people know about different things and make sure that you know how to ask them to help you when you don't know how to do something.