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Tip 1: It\u2019s very important that every team member has distinct roles on your team. Now that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do multiple things, simply that you have definite roles and when you go to tournaments you know them and are prepared to talk about them to judges and other teams.\u00a0Even if everyone helps some with the robot at meetings, you need to have at LEAST one main job that you\u2019re the lead of. Plus, you don\u2019t want absolutely everyone to be crowding around the robot at tournaments. There\u2019s just not enough room, so everyone should have their own job they can work on!<\/p>\n
Tip 2: There are some roles that are more fun than others, and there are some that nobody wants to do– like the engineering journal. However, it\u2019s important to compromise with your team members and split work and fun equally.<\/span>\u00a0No one person should be doing more work or hogging, even if they\u2019re more experienced in certain areas.<\/span><\/p>\n Tip 3: Even if you\u2019re not experienced in a lot of areas, don\u2019t immediately just pigeonhole yourself on one role, branch out a little! Even if you are dead-set on building the robot, that doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s all you can do on the team. Try helping out with fundraising or programming, you might find you like it. You can be the person in charge of one role and the assistant with another. Or you might find after experimenting that you don\u2019t want to be a robot builder at all, and would rather do media. The point is to at least try several things before you decide on your role or roles. The important thing is that you\u2019re not just randomly helping out with things. Experiment a little until you find a role or roles you like, then have those be your official roles and take charge with them. That way you\u2019ll get more experience with more things and may discover a hidden talent you didn\u2019t know you had. Obviously if you\u2019re on a smaller team you\u2019ll have to manage more roles, whereas if you\u2019re on a big team you might just have one.<\/span><\/p>\n To summarize:<\/p>\n 1: Know what your distinct role or roles are<\/p>\n 2: Don\u2019t just hog the fun jobs even if you might be the most experienced at them<\/p>\n 3: Don\u2019t be afraid to try new things<\/p>\n For more tips & tricks, listen to our radio show, Captain’s Log, every other Sunday at 7:00 PM.\u00a0 Listen to the episode [musicsingle file=”http:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-content\/uploads\/entry-01-entering-orbit.mp3″] Tip 1: It\u2019s very important that every team member has distinct roles on your team. Now that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do multiple things, simply that you have definite roles and when you go to tournaments you know them and are prepared to talk about them to judges and… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-radio-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillargroup.com\/ftcteam6024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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