Team Formation Dropins

Students commit to offered projects, and form into the teams. Each team has a nominated spokesperson and deputy.

NEW   There will be a series of three Team Formation Dropins, from Tuesday to Thursday the week of July 22nd. Team spokespeople notify conveners of formed teams on formation Slack. For more information, contact our Partnerships Management staff.

Attendance

Clients

• Clients who are pitching a project for the first time this semester must attend a Dropin for that project to be offered.

• Clients of continuing teams that are recruiting new members are strongly encouraged to attend and help in that process. Please check with your team…

• An indicative schedule of Team Formation Droping activities is provided below.

Students

• Any student that is not already assigned to a team is required to attend a Dropin. It is a hurdle to be a declared member of a team by Thursday evening Week 01. You cannot do the course unless you are on a team at quorum.

• Any continuing team that has 4 or fewer members is required to all attend to recruit new members with client, or join another team failing that recruitment attempt. Continuing teams are not recognised until they are declared on EdStem to conveners.

• Continuing students, your client may have discontinued the project. Please verify with your client/team that your project is continuing, and if not please attend to form a new team. If in doubt, contact our Partnerships Management staff.

• If you are a team with fewer than 7 members you should try to recruit more. Please also attend. Existing team members are free to post on the course EdStem (see Wattle for invite) site in advance of Team Formation Dropins, to advertise the position/s. And please register your continuing team at quorum as early as possible.

• By the end of the last Team Formation Dropin each team must have registered a spokesperson, and a deputy spokesperson. The spokespeople must be able to identify their team members, and of course have the contact details of their clients and members.

• The team spokespeople are required to input team composition and tutorial preferences. This shall be done using a form circulated to spokespersons. All is to be completed by COB Friday Week 1.

Anyone else

Other participants, including clinicians and mentors are more than welcome to attend for their own purposes.

Date, Time and Venue

See the program schedule

Preparation

Students

Students should familiarise themselves with short-listed projects before the Team Formation Dropins. Descriptions of all proposals are available on the TechLauncher Management System. Please register using your university email to fast track that process. You are encouraged to communicate with prospective clients, and each other, well before Team Formation Dropins. We will short-list these projects before Week 01. Only those projects that are short-listed can be offered.

Clients

Clients should prepare to engage prospective team members with an engaging project brief and engagement opportunity.

Existing teams looking for additional team members

These teams should think carefully about the type of team members they need to add to their team.

Team Size

Each team will comprise 5-7 students. The team size should be appropriate for the size of the project, and should be made up of a diverse & appropriate skillset.

Indicative Schedule