Important Question - Leadership

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by d.schneid@1719

There is no perfect leader.

This is true, because no one person is perfect.

Originally Posted by BARKer

what are the captain duties?

That of course depends on who you are talking about. A student leader will probably have different duties than a teacher would.

Anyhoo, as for being a student leader, my team never had one. There are students that would take charge on writing and planning out our chairmans submission and there are some that take charge on prototyping something, but we worked as a team to finish our goals.

The suggestions made about being a student leader are spot on. If you are a leader you should try and get others involved, not just with the robot, chairmans, or animation, but with everything. I can say right now that I really don't have much of a clue about programming or how they wrote the chairmans awards, because I was in the shop most of the time working on the robot. I'm going to, as a college student mentor, try and learn these other things next year. So that one day if I'm helping another team, either get started or continuing on, I will know how to do those things.

The last thing I want to say, is that you should try and get more students involved, whether or not your the student leader. I was a part of a group that graduated in 2005 and it left our team with half as many members, but this last year there were about 8-10 students that were on the team that were new to me. I know there are somethings that I can teach them, probably not as much as an engineer, but there are still somethings I could teach them.