New Teacher, Old Team.

[Bob Steele]

First and foremost, be happy that you have someone that is interested enough to want to be your coach. Having a strong school contact is important to advance your team's abilities and resources.

Second, you are actually getting someone who has experience doing this... how great is that?

I think you arrived at a suitable solution... see what happens... be courteous...be appreciative.... work with your new coach.
Remember you are laying the groundwork for new teams to come.

Above all, be positive.... don't think about how bad things could be... look for the good aspects and celebrate them...

All the best in your coming season!!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Mush,
It's hard to say things are going to be one way or another for a team that has just gone through their rookie year. Your were destined to change as all teams do after their first year (or fifteenth). Keep your eye on the prize, getting a robot up and working during the build. How you get there varies from team to team. Remember above all, you are part of a team. A team works together.

[Mushrooshi]

Well, it has been a few weeks, and all I can say is that our new leader is just great. She has tons of connections for robotics and sponsorship, was able to get us to a presentation plus a small Q&A time with Dean Kamen, and start off robotics nearly right away in the school year. I can tell that this year, the veteran members will need to change the 'workflow' a bit, but we will be able to achieve success as before. Two robotics camps != Knowing everything about a person.

As far as I know, the only possible caveat we might have this year compared to last year is due to a larger team; my speculation is either budgeting (We went overboard on the budget last year with 1 team... what about 4 teams now?), or team control. To be honest, I find working in smaller groups works better, but for this, we will be having 3 or 4 full teams of 10 or less, not some massive 40 person team. We also had a major company who sits only 100ft away from the school sponsor us... I think they are contributing multithousands at this point, and they also happen to be a webhosting company, and at the moment I am trying to get hosting from them in order to start up a team blog and forum to help the massive volume of members be collaborative and organized. The engineering notebook entries are primarily to be harvested on the forum aswell.

This year we are really hitting the ground running.