Young Leaders in FIRST

[Conor Ryan]

Ingredients to having a successful team:

• As many motivated students as you can get your hands on
  • Unmotivated students don't get the job done
• As many motivated mentors as you can get your hands on
  
  
  • Unmotivated mentors don't get the job done
• If your working out of a school, an active and enthusastic school liason, teacher, advisor, ect.
• A consistent place/time to meet
  
  
  • If you meet in different places some people will get confused and never show up
• A solid place to share information
  
  
  • Team Website
  • Team Forum
  • Google/Yahoo Group?
  • Google Calendar?
  • Google has a lot of productivity tools you can use, they do a good job in working them all together
• Information on who you have working with you
  
  
  • Forms are good for this
    • Online forms are best for this
      • Wufoo.com is your new best friend (the free accounts are sufficent for just about everything)
• Get parents involved
  • Parents provide: Food, Potential Sponsorships, Help where you need it, and possibly a mentor

Do all of this, and you will have a well organized team, organization is the foundation for any team, and bad organization leads to bad (defunct teams) Remember, the best team is one that makes it to competition.