guidance needed... please...?

[mtaman02]

Same situation with us. and as an ex. captain i agree with the rest of the members who post in this thread already. start setting up committees. get rid of the people who don't want to put effort in the team. basically weed out the bad things and keep the good and do this before the first competition otherwise the team will be messed up till next season. on top of weeding out all the useless kids. yes get your name out into the world. economy is bad companies don't have that much money to be given out sso try to be the first team there with a financial situation before they choose a loser team to blow 5 grand on ( no offense to any teams that did bad last year. im expecting at least one PM from 371 about that). but in reality you want to be the first to be chosen for donation. assemble a parental committee. parents want to see there kids let alone the team and school name better themselves. parents are very useful when its time for fundraising and such.


the onl;y time you fall behind on your duties is about a month b4 kickoff or at least during 6 weeks building period. thats the most stressful point in FIRST let alone the competition. from one captain to another. you'll do fine. assemble committees heres the breakdown


Parental and Coach Committee seperate the 2 if u wish
Design and Construction
Fundraising / Treasury
Programming
Web Design / Animation
Team Contact / Team Representative.
Team Chain of Command - asically yourself and a trusted member of the team

Break it down any way u like just make sure the committees listed above are taken care of first. its easier to break everything up. everyone handles what they do best and no one can complain whos doing someone else's job. And of course a team without rules isn't a team so basically come up with rules that will be a benefit to your team rather then a regret.

Good Luck! If YOU NEED ANY ADVISE AT ALL PM me or IM my AOL AIM name dayrunner6969123. I will be more then glad to give you more useful info. Keep up the good work though because the toughest thing you did was take the responibility of being the leader / captain of your team. now its smooth sailing here unless something unexpected pops up.


GOOD LUCK and Hang in there your doing fine