Preping for next season.

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Hi im from a 2nd year team that just started to get alot more members. 1089 usta have only around 12 members. Now we have about 22+ and we are new to the concept of committees within our team. In the past we had every member working on every task. Now I being the founder of the FIRST team at my school, and the captain, want to know how to set up a well working team.

In our last meeting we did a whole lot of fundraiseing ideas and we discussed new things our team can do for PR. So far we are planning the following fundraisers: Leaf raking, car wash, LAN party, resturant deally with part of bills go to us if we adervtise, selling bagels on half days(no lunch sold), and we are thinking about other small deallies.

With our PR we are designing and making a 8x10 banner with pvc pipe and we have a teacher helping us out. Then we have our buttons, just ordered another $80 worth of stuff, and our shirts. Also we haven't discussed to much about it yet but our webpage. We also have cool tote bags! Hehe.

I suggested to our team coach teacher person that we should form committees around the two catogories that our team is working on at this time, PR and Fundraiseing. Then the allumni would do the misc. items like repairs to robot and stuff.

In my mind I had the committees running like this; first we would present new items to the team and new calendar items, then we would split up and committee leader would start of the committee with a topic to discuss... like pr talk about "what do we need to change on website", then committee would think up ways to change or modify the website and later present a rough draft to the entire team..., then team would decide and get there 2 cents in on the final choices.

Please reply with ways to modify my team and our meetings to work more fluently. I would also appreciate suggestions for fundraisers and PR items we can make(not competition stuff)