School/Team Relationships 2

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by sanddrag
Also, most of the robot team members are graduated too so it will be like 4 students who are making the thing and know what they are doing including me. We will still hopefully have our 5 engineers but the rest of the students will be new members.

My prayers are deffinately with you. Our team went through the same thing this past year. In 2001 basically the whole team graduated except for the Business and PR groups. We were left with three veterans on the build team. This resulted in a whole new team. In addition there was two of us on build and one in PR that had been on the team for three or more years. We had very few seniors, and almost all of the seniors were in their first year on the team. Many people weren't to happy that it was an 'underclassmen' drive team. The year was a lot more difficult than I have remembered in the past. All I can say is do everything possible to keep structure and sinority. Don't get powerful with the sinority in the wrong way, just have that so the underclassmen will learn how things work. For instance, use it in a way so the underclassmen know that when they are asked to complete a simple task when building the robot, that they actually finish the task, and don't take 12 hours doing it. We will be going through another similar thing this year, hopefully it won't affect us as much though. We are losing our whole PR team, and will be left with no one, so hopefully new people will sign up. Best wishes to you.