Team leader

[Alex Golec]

In my opinion, leaders do not need to be picked. They natural emerge as time goes on and as more opportunities are presented to them. Our team has no single leader or captain. Students take charge of various projects on the robot and make contributions to the overall administration of the team. Every person has leadership qualities in themselves, and they should bring them out to contribute to the team.

_Alex

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by Alex469

In my opinion, leaders do not need to be picked. They natural emerge as time goes on and as more opportunities are presented to them. Our team has no single leader or captain. Students take charge of various projects on the robot and make contributions to the overall administration of the team. Every person has leadership qualities in themselves, and they should bring them out to contribute to the team.

_Alex

agreed. especially in small teams as ours where we all share the same load of work. no subteams. all just one group who all does all

[Melissa Nute]

The process changed from year to year. For two of the years, a leader naturally emerged so that a vote wasn't even needed. Our mentors gave input on what they wanted as a leader, so that it was obvious who they wanted it to be. In the years we had a vote, that input aided in who was chosen.

[Joe J.]

Well our team is considered a club by our schools so we don't have a team captain instead we have positions that a club would have (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.) the people who fill these positions are know as the teams officers. To fill these positions we have nominations and elections at the end of each school year.

As for small group leaders firstly we have three main small groups mechanical (drive train, and device), Controls (hardware, software), and Program Management/ Strategy the leaders of these 3 groups are picked by each group but we pretty much know they will be in charge so getting picked is just a formality.

the president runs our weekly meetings

Each officer can work in whatever area of team they want just like all of out team members.

Each team member is important to the team in a different way it all depends on how much time and effort they put into the team.

as to if its important to have a leader that really depends on your team size
if your team is small around 15 students it would be helpful but not necessary (our first year we didn't have a student leader)because everyone more or less know what the others are doing and what needs to be done. but if you have a large team like we had last year(73) and this year (65 +) it is important to have a student leader just because of the size of the team you need someone to organize what is going on within the team

[Karthik1]

Our team is very small 15 to 20 students, and only 7 senior members. We elected our president/leader.

I am not sure what our president dose thats why I asked this question.