A team needs to develop an understanding of what the challenge is asking for. If most of the points are given for how tall a structure is, that's what's most important. If points are given for "the creativity of" or using each material, that needs to be kept in mind. Here are some pointers for new teams and TM's:
1. Read the challenge to the team then ask them what is important before starting the challenge. Do this with one challenge each week until they are good at analyzing what matters.
2. Some teams assign the members to pay attention to each line of scoring and timing. Someone is in charge of timing. Someone is in charge of each line of "scoring" in the challenge. They keep the team on track by saying what matters (ex - we get points for creative use of materials so how can we use this pipe cleaner?)
3. Some teams quickly discuss what's most important. Usually a leader emerges to lead this discussion. One of my teams had a "natural leader" for the task-based challenges and a different "natural leader" for the performance based challenges.
4. Let them score themselves and say why.
5. When first working on instant challenges, don't spend a lot of time analyzing scores. Do a lot of instant challenges and let them develop a method for attacking a challenge.
6. Repeat a challenge. Sometimes they like a challenge and want to repeat it. You can wait a few weeks and repeat a challenge to give them a chance to do it better.
7. Give them nore preparation time at first. Let them have 6 minutes instead of 4 minutes.
8. There's no INTERFERENCE rules with instant challenges. You can talk them through it to help them develop a method for attacking a challenge if it looks like they're not developing one themselves.
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