Starting a Mostly student run FRC team

[merybar]

Originally Posted by Libby K

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.

I play this same role on my team so i can defiantly vouch for what you are saying, it is hard however it defiantly pays off. Two years ago our coach moved onto medical school, i ran our team last year fully and this year i am working on getting the new coach up to speed. I planned our trip to the championship along with managing TIMS, fundrasing and the other aspects of FIRST. It is a lot of fun, hard but has taught me a lot.