Being a Good team leader!

[GMKlenklen]

Hi, all

We, the MASMabot high council, have enacted a small lego robot turnament to sort of get the ball rolling and the minds turning and generally enlighten the team . The task was almost overwhelming (like first games) but defianately possible, if you spent enough time and or came up with some good ideas. We split up into 4 groups, each with one RCX kit.

Now the problem:
The teams never really took the initiative to come togeather, brainstorm and build a robot like we where hopeing they would (we did have team leaders to make this planed, not just sporatic). Instead the lego pieces remained unanimated, and come competition time, there where only two teams that actually had a non-default program on their robot!

Ok, so that may have ben a slight failure on our parts interms of not takeing the initiative for them... but is this really the way it should be done? These kids signed up for robotics, and i have seen them build, and think... but how do we get the team from step one to the final stages?

Thanks!