Starting a Mostly student run FRC team

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Remember, this is coming from a team that has been "mostly student run" for the past 13 years, its tough and I don't recommend it. Get adults (teachers, parents, engineers, mentors) and continue your current team. Take this advice please, it'll help prevent a lot of stupid little problems. Working with other students on a student run team gets frustrating without and adult to help keep your heads on straight.

I entirely disagree. Team 1923 has been ENTIRELY student run (in fact, entirely run by only myself) for four years, and so far I'm pretty proud of where we are.

We build in a student's garage, and we raise all our own money through our school district's education foundation. The key is to have support from a core group of parents. Our team parents aren't technically minded at all, nor do they act as anything more that supervision.

I, as a student, have done everthing that a mentor should be doing (i.e. TIMS management, booking travel, keeping students in line and organized for meetings and at events...the list goes on) on my own for the past four years.

Yes, it's hard, but it's completely worth it.

I'm not going to write out my team's life story, but if you want to know more, PM me or drop me a line on AIM or gmail, my contact info is in my signature.