Responsibilties of a Captain

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Originally Posted by InfernoX14

We also have a job description section at our Team Wiki.

This is an aside... but I thought we were the only team with a wiki.


Our team has a 5-person student management team which has taken on a lot of the responsibilities that our mentors used to have to do. Our mentors are now less overwhelmed, and the students now feel more directly involved in the processes and feel a greater sense of responsibility for and connection with our achievements. For the people who question the necessity of a student captain (or management team, in our case), I think this is a good justification.

As for the responsibilities of the captain specifically ("president" on our team), on our team the president is basically a team representative. The president represents the team for sponsors, takes all student input and brings it to management team meetings to help with decisions, represents students for sponsor, and communicates with the school. (S)he runs the team meetings each night, plans events, and generally helps to keep everything on track.

I'm giving a link to our 2007-2008 team handbook, which describes the responsibilities and qualifications of this year's management team on page 5. We've since tweaked some things for next year's team, but the new handbook isn't finalized. http://uberbots.org/2008/files/handbook.pdf