Student Leadership

[dancingfool]

The Fighting Pi has a different kind of structure. We come from a rural area and have what I would consider an average sized team having 25 students this year. I'll describe it briefly, but please refer to the picture I’ve attached, it outlines the division nicely. We are divided as follows:

Our Head Mentor is our school liaison/coach.

The head mentor nominates student for the book keeper position. This person keeps track of all team funds, as well as community service and outreach hours as well as refunds. Although this is a head mentor nomination, it is a student elected position. We also have:

1 Mechanical Division Captain +Lead mentor
1 Controls Division Captain +Lead mentor
1 Business Division Captain +Lead mentor

It is the team captain’s job to preside over others in their department, hand out jobs, keeping people busy, etc. They are also responsible for communicating with mentors, maintaining good morale, and reporting habitual poor performance.

Each captain is assisted by a "lead mentor". This mentor is in place to make sure tasks are being delegated out, and completed in a timely and efficient manner. This position is decided upon amongst the mentors as they see fit prior to October 1st (The Start of our season).

From here it is fairly simple, the mechanical and controls division will decide on their organization based on the year’s game, what it requires etc...
However, the business division is much more strict because it does not vary much year to year. So, the business division is divided into sub-committees such as: swag, newsletter, spirit, awards, scouting etc...

These subgroups vary from 3-5 students, and every team member is required to participate in at least two of them. This helps to ensure that the workload is spread across the team and that we are constantly training our successors.

Also, our mentors and students are on equal ground, this allows for students to be able to voice their opinions freely and for a more relaxed environment. we like to use the argument that no idea is stupid, because even if you think it is, it may be the best idea, or lead to another idea that turns out to be the best option.

Lastly, I've attached our by-laws and management sections if you'd like to do a little bit off reading. The go into complete detail and aren't too long.