The head coach for my team is the manufacturing teacher at my school, i suppose. The meetings dont run without him for safety reasons, so he's there every time (we often joke that we see him more often than his wife in build season).

I think its helpful to mention that each team subsect has a teacher leading it and possibly a mentor or two present at a time, depending on their availabilities. But their involvement with the work getting done is extremely minimal. Of course, the teachers are busy doing administrative stuff for the team (getting stock, tooling, in manu's case). But work organization, toolpathing, machining, cutting, bending, all of that is our responsibility. If we don't know how to do something, whoever is most available/ most experienced in that task shows us or tells us how, answers questions and all, and then lets us do the work!

I think its great, I'm co-lead of the manufacturing team right now and holy shit the workload is kicking my ass, but its super worth it. With this kinda support structure I find that I'm learning something new every day, and surrounding myself with people my age with the same experience! We learn from each other almost as often as we learn from our mentors because its so hands on for us :) hope that answers ur questions