How do you keep your FIRST team a TEAM?

[aziandorkess]

Originally Posted by unapiedra

How ever our team has a problem (at least I would say so) with getting new dedicated members. We have the most of the original core leaving school, so there aren't many leaders left.
What do you do about that?

Get the younger kids involved. Since we have a 6-12 robotics program, and do a lot of outreach, we don't have many problems with this. Subgroups, and making sure that one core member takes a few younger people under his/her wing... :shrugs:
Our hardware/electrical team members worship us, the programmers. It's usually a hardware problem anyways.. or rather, time runs out and it doesn't come to programming yet.
The team usually starts out with 40-50 people at the beginning of the school year, and thins out around building season. There's a core team of about 15-20 people. We keep track of hours, community service, fundraising, and participation for travelling- which is a good incentive. Mandatory meetings and events are also a good way to have a team to act like a team. Since our team is mostly student-run, we've all become really good friends. Team socials and other types of events are really cool too.