For student leaders
Run the program you wish you had joined
A club knows which forms cause trouble, what judges notice, and which deadlines are less flexible than they look. That knowledge should not graduate.
What an officer does hereSix things
- Watch the projects assigned to you, with what is outstanding on each one visible without asking.
- Put the club’s guidance where the student is working, at the stage it applies to, instead of repeating it in twenty conversations.
- Hold the deadlines and requirements as a program, so next year starts from them rather than from a folder of old files.
- Help somebody prepare without taking their project over. What you write is guidance, and their notebook stays theirs.
- Operate under a teacher who can see what you are doing, with permissions that say what you may decide.
- Hand the next officers a working system rather than a handover document nobody reads.
Two roles, kept apartBecause most officers have both
An officer is usually also a student with a project of their own. Those are separate things and stay separate: looking after somebody else's project gives you what you need to help with it and nothing more, and your own project is yours the way theirs is theirs.
Every decision an officer makes is visible to the program's advisor, and a decision made in error can be found again and reversed.
StartAn officer role is granted by a program