Getting every member to know everything possible.

[GaryVoshol]

Every team member should know something about everything. Obviously, you know the most about what you did the most.

On the technical side, some don't know programming at all, and that's OK. But you should know the key features about your robot - what kind of drive train, gearing, where are the sensors and what do they do, etc. When judges come to the pits for a second look at your team (after the formal interviews), you never know who they will find to talk with.

For project presentation, everyone should be able to answer general questions. Specific questions about a fact in your presentation could be answered by the person who researched it. Judges like to see several people raising their hands or otherwise indicating they know something about the question. No one person should dominate the conversation.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

On the technical side, some don't know programming at all, and that's OK. But you should know the key features about your robot - what kind of drive train, gearing, where are the sensors and what do they do, etc.
For project presentation, everyone should be able to answer general questions. Specific questions about a fact in your presentation could be answered by the person who researched it. Judges like to see several people raising their hands or otherwise indicating they know something about the question.

I agree 1000%. (yeah, I know that's a bit much ) We have 1 builder, four programmers (including the builder) and three who worked on the project a lot. We also made sure to give them all several runs through the project presentation, including one where two mentors (myself included) acted as judges. We identified areas that needed improvement. We also made sure that everyone knew the correct answer to each question asked.

[KTorak]

When I was on an FLL team, we had a "brain storm session" where each group would explain to everyone else what they did, why they did it, how, etc. After we had the presentations, the mentors would sit down and ask each kid a set of questions about anything they wanted to make sure they knew about everything.