Recommendation
Provide leadership and management instruction, mentorship, and guidance for students leading organizations and for all members of student experiential learning competition teams. Leadership and management skills are not innate. ‘Sink or swim’ is wasteful of resources and contributes to exclusion.
Supporting References
‘You choose between TEAM A, good grades, and a girlfriend – you get to choose two!’ – How a culture of exclusion is constructed and maintained in an engineering design competition team
Advisor Perspectives on Diversity in Student Design Competition Teams
Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition Teams
Leadership, Management, and Diversity: Missed Opportunities within Student Design Competition Teams
Building Diversity in Engineering Competition Teams by Modeling Industry Best-Practice