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This semester we have been tasked with turning the current Outreach team, which before this semester consisted of three engineering students, into a full fledged Public Relations and Funding group. The team now consists of eight people from a varriety variety of majors all over Cornell. These people are from different departments and have all come from different backgrounds. Some people are taking the class for three credits, some for one credit, and some for no credits. Initially it has been a challenge to balace balance people from all over campus, some that are taking the class for credit, and some that are not. This results in some people that are required to spend a specific amount of time on the project, some more than others, and some that are donating there their time.

The current team organization design that has been developed through trial and error, will be an organized and efficient way of running and organizing a varried varied group like the Outreach team.

The team design starts by spliting splitting the group into two working groups, the Funding Working Group, and the Public Relations Working Group. Each working group has a managing student that is accountable to a Outreach Team leader. The Outreach Team leader is accountable to the AguaClara Team leader. The Outreach Team leader is the link between Monroe, the AguaClara Team leader, and the rest of the Outreach Team. The Working Group managers are the link between the rest of the AguaClara Team and the majority of the Outreach Team. At the begining beginning of the week, the Outreach Team leader will meet with the Working Group managers and discuss the weekly goals. The Working Group managers then organize a face to face meeting with their groups once a week that consists of discussing the previous weeks accomplishments and deligating delegating the next weeks goals.

Face to face contact every week is a very important part of this teams team's success. A lot of the work will be done individually or in small groups with this team, but the leaders of the group, meeting at least once a week with the other members of the group once a week and talking face to face, working problems out, and clarifieing clarifying tasks is the most effective way of being successful in such a diverse group.

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