Team Captains

How does your team pick a team captain?

Do you have a team captain?

[lilszek24]

Yea we have team captains...we have a student vote. But u have to be qualified which means you have to be a senior and you have to have been on the team 2 or more years

[BillyGoats]

All i know is the Yankees Team Captain is Derek Jeter. He was appontied by his manager and owner. Hope it helps you out with answering the question.

[Wacko324]

My team hasn't really thought about team captains, but probably the team captain will be the main driver. So whom ever of the three of us isn't a human player or co-driver is the captain I guess.

[thoughtful]

This year as we are a second year team the captain (me) was chosen by a teacher and some senior student. Though i think it should be done by student vote, with a set rules for qualification. THe nice thing about our team is that we have these sub team leaders and a board like thing, but every sub team leader has to approve his decision by his team through a vote and than he tells us what his team wants.

This works pretty good, most of the people are happy and involved. For decisions that whole team cannot be involved in mostly management decisions the board or the sub leaders and captain can decide through voting.

In my opinion democracy is always the best, but make sure your team doesnt go on the wrong track.

[tkwetzel]

We have an elected team captain, chosen at the end of the school year, of the previous year that they will serve.

[Pierson]

We have an elected Team Captain who handles inner-Team relations/questions and a Team Coordinator who handles things in the community for the Team. Under these two leaders, we have 5 division leaders.

All of these 7 leadership positions require 1 year on the team among other requirements. We have elections in the spring.

Being a 5th year Team, we have a bylaws document which we use to run the Team.

[swando]

we actually call our team captains CEOs, with heads of different departments as well. the students apply for the position of their choosing before the start of the season, and they are chosen by the adult board.
also, during the past few years we've tried having several team captains, with so-so results.

Doesn't the FIRST yearbook page require a Team Captain? Is this important in judging (like judges go to this student first)?

[Jim McGeehin]

For MOE, the team mentors nominate individuals based on leadership, charisma, knowledge, competence, etc. Someone who really defines what a Miracle Worker is and is dedicated to the team. Afterwards, the team decides in open elections, simple majority wins. Our last three captains: Chris Wilkens, Brian Gattman, and Jake Warren, were all chosen this way. And there is no better way to pick, because you have the confidence of the mentors and the support of the students.

Do you think being a senior (grade-wise) is important? Or does seniority in the team and competence matter more?

[thoughtful]

In my opinion and experince seniority in team matters more. But also you wana keep in mind that you want an individual that people of all ages are comfortable around. Who has great passion and communicates effectively. In my opinion a captain should know about all the different aspect but he doesnt has to necessarily the most knowledgeable person in the team.

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by thoughtful

In my opinion and experince seniority in team matters more. But also you wana keep in mind that you want an individual that people of all ages are comfortable around. Who has great passion and communicates effectively. In my opinion a captain should know about all the different aspect but he doesnt has to necessarily the most knowledgeable person in the team.

i agree with this .. and the person should also be respected by the rest of the team, making age important, but not extremely important (i am 15 - making me the third youngest on my team)

i am the team leader of my team because i am the one who started the team up ... i will be team leader next year as well for the same reason ... when i leave, i am not completely sure how the new team leader will be decided.

[ngreen]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

Doesn't the FIRST yearbook page require a Team Captain? Is this important in judging (like judges go to this student first)?

No judges never go to students and they never go to specific students..You got to wait until you spot one..ususually wearing a certain color of shirt, blue last year. And all the students spring forth baraging him with knowledge from how the intricate control systems work, why you did a certain thing, explain your budget/fundraising/sponsorship, tell him what you have done with other team and other people to spread first, and when you finish he will be so dazed that he can't see other color and read other number and he's sure to only remember you when it comes time to make decisions. It a team effort. Captains are for chairman's award when you can only have so many and it looks bad to have multiple people speaking at a time.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

our captains are the team mentors son and his friend....