How to be a good Captain for the team?

[Arpitr20]

I also cant stress how important it is that you are a strong role model. The strongest motivator for any science Olympiad team is peer pressure/if you're not letting your team down. If you work hard, people will see that and follow suit, however, if noone else is working, people lose their own motivation because they feel that their work is useless anyway. Be the first to take on the most events and do well in them. Also, try to constantly provide you team with resources, it a) contributes to the team element and b) motivates them to work because finding resources can be daunting, so if you do it for them you're set. Also, just try to be overall nice, dont be too pushy or strict all the time, but at the same time be suggestive enough to entice people to work. External rewards could be good, but you might strip some members of their intrinsic motivation towards scioly.

[Chameleon02]

hey thanks this sounds like a lot of great info. Yeah it seems a bit presumptuous for me to doom my team to a worse season next year and I most definitely do not want that. We actually do attend 4 invitationals with 2 teams, though only our A team ever wins them. This is another thing I want to figure out. The gap is HUGE between the A team and B team and as A team members are leaving there arent qualified individuals to take their places.
I have sort of made a name for myself by taking on almost all the build events but there is no role model on the team for events like the binder events (which I believe to be one of the hardest ones) and we are also historically very weak in WIDI.


One thing that made an impact on our team was that we were unable to go to our first invitational of the season (Northview in December) and since our next invitational was in February it made the entire team lazy and gave us all a later start.