# people on team

[Mike Martus]

The above senerios of students starting out but not completing the task, and the few who do most of the work. This is all to common.

Chief Delphi operates as a club in the fall with manadatory meetings or events. Team members are required to participate or they do not make the actual team in late December. This is a time when the coaches evaluate the students.

We start with a team that is about 30 and usually end up with 24 or so, the amount has varied from year to year and depends on what our budget can support.

All students fill out an application and go through an interview process that makes sure we get students that are interested and have the time for the activitiies.

Second semester all team members MUST be in a class called FIRST. This class is last hour of the day so that the students can stay a few hours after school as needed. This really helps with the work load and shares the effort. If students drop off in participation they are warned and possibily dropped from the team. Add to this the academic grade requirements and we usually have a very stable group of students.

We spend many hours on team building with the engineers and teachers. This gets the students to feel comfortable and to buy into the program.