team roles

[E. The Kidd]

I've noticed that teams have broken up into different branches on this message board. I was wondering what jobs are assigned in each branch and what each job entails.

[Andrew Rudolph]

For our team we have a committee system. There are comittees and there is a member of the team that heads each committee, then we all meet and set goals for the committees. Here is the list of the committees:

Build Team
Spirit Team
3d Animation
CAD Design
Fund Raising
Strategy
Web Team
Graphics Team
Programming
Chairman's Award

Then we let each member go onto 2 committees specifically, but they can help with all of them. Hope this answers what you are asking.

[Kristina]

I posted this way back when at this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4073

MANAGEMENT- This my group. We were in charge of getting everyone on the team to fundraise, ordering all of the parts, communicating with sponors and engineers, making travel arrangements, writing the newsletter, kept track of who was doing what and when, scourting, all the spirit stuff and all the nit picky details.

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION- With the class King, Jeff, head of it. Most people were in this group and they worked on manually building the robot. I'd say about 10 people were in this group and they did all their work outside of class at Jeff's house.

EXTENDOR (aka special team)-This was a subdivision of Design and construction with about 5 people. No leader was appointed but one of the members Kyle stepped up to the plate and got the group working hard. By being in a seperate group, they could work on being creative and giving us the extra edge beyond the basic robot.

PNEUMNATICS- This two person team focused on all the pneumatic systems on our robot, knowing all the details inside and out.

ANIMATION- About 4 people and their leader learned all the animation stuff and put together a cool clip. Their animation skills have also been put to use for promo for our team.

I think that small intimate subgroups with leaders are really important because everyone feels useful and no one falls through the cracks. Its much easier to be a leader of a few people and make sure everyone has something to do and is doing their job.

I guess the only appointed leaders were me and Jeff because it was the two main big groups, and that worked out well. People felt that they had fellow students to go to when there were problems. Although many times you get blamed first for problems or complained to the most, its really rewarding in the end.

[zebo111988]

We have a very small team this year cuz it's we're new, but we also have sub teams. Everyone's got like 3 jobs and there aren't that many people on eac sub team. Guess that means we will have to work extra hard.

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[Harrison]

Out team has 4 basic divisions:

1: Media - This is probably the single largest part of our team. Within Media there is Web Design, Animation, T-Shirts, and then everyone does the Chairmans.

2: Engineering - These people design, prototype, and build the robot. It is divided into Motion (make the bot move), and 'Function' (pick up balls, etc).

3: Strategy - What should the robot do when it's playing the game? They work hand in hand with the engineerings ppl while we're designing the bot.

4: Electronics - Basically what it sounds like. Definately the smallest group on the team (2 or 3 people). They programme the robot.

All the other things that happen on the team (for instance getting sponsors) are done by the leaders of the team. The 'leaders' of the team are basically the leaders from each division (basically the older students).

When it comes to things like fundraising, the entire team is involved, so there is no real 'division' for it.

[Jnadke]

We split up into different groups as well... In my former team anyways (Team 93).

Marketing - Set up different fundraising opportunities. Promote the team to the community.

Chairman's Award - No need to explain. Last year the people that did this also did marketing, so it could fall into there. This doesn't start, of course, until the build does. Marketing people tend to have all the creative ideas.

Strategy - This group doesn't start until the build starts. They meet the first 2 days and put together a bunch of strategies. This group was pretty much pointless because this past year our team met as a group and discussed robot design anyways. When the team met we just got the basic ideas of how our robot would work.

Design Ideas - These subgroups only met to solidify the design concepts of our robot, so the CAD team could go to work. The designs were preliminarily tested for proof-of-concept, then they went to the CAD group. These were split into:
-Grabber group - design our goal grabbing device
-Drive group - design our drive system

CAD - This group was responsible for keeping the design layouts of everything in our robot. This was probabaly the largest group of them all. Their job is to, of course, design the part, print up the specs, and put them in the 'to be machined' box. The design groups consisted of these members.

Machining - This group learns how to use the machines available to us in the metal shop. We have a bunch of lathes, milling machines, drill presses, band saws, welding tools, and plasma cutters. During the build their job is to take CAD drawings from the 'to be machined' box and machine them. Then put the finished part along with the original drawing in the finished box.

Electrical/Pneumatic/Programming - Last year this group consisted of 3-4 members, which worked perfectly because this is one of the easier things to do. It's fairly straightforward... wire the robot, set up the pneumatics, and program the robot. pneumatics and programming each took < 1 day.

Animation - This group consisted of 2 members. Their job was to come up with the animation idea and create it. They then worked with the CAD group to get the robot model and put it into the animation.

Actual building of the robot - Pretty much everyone did this, as long as you knew what you were doing.


I don't think I forgot anything.... I if I did, correct me.

[Harrison]

Originally posted by Jnadke

CAD - This group was responsible for keeping the design layouts of everything in our robot. This was probabaly the largest group of them all. Their job is to, of course, design the part, print up the specs, and put them in the 'to be machined' box. The design groups consisted of these members.

I found (and I think a lot of teams have as well) that using CAD to design the bot takes FAR too long than to sketch it out on paper with basic measuments.

Unless you're doing a gearbox ro soemthing where you must be 100% accurate, CAD just seems to take far far far too long to make it really worthwhile to use it.

Agree, Disagree???

[Jnadke]

Originally posted by Harrison


I found (and I think a lot of teams have as well) that using CAD to design the bot takes FAR too long than to sketch it out on paper with basic measuments.

Unless you're doing a gearbox ro soemthing where you must be 100% accurate, CAD just seems to take far far far too long to make it really worthwhile to use it.

Agree, Disagree???


We had around 10 people on the CAD team, and it probabaly took them 2 weeks to do everything. Then we have 7-10 people on the machining team. Another 2 weeks to build the thing and machine it.

I'm not sure if it helped any on machining. The CAD people are rather experienced though, so it was probabaly easier than drawing it. Many took drafting classes. Not to mention they also spent the weeks before the build just getting used to the program and drafting up random parts. We'd meet twice a week and they'd practice.

[Aaron Lussier]

Mech- Build the robot, fix robot when Broken

Animation- Animate

Controls- This group is Electrical, Pnumatics, and software all in one

Chairmans- Work on Chairmans

Drafting- Draft

Machining- Machine parts for mech to put together

Drive Team- Drive robots and all other parts of it and get the bot on and off the field

Parents Group- Consists of parents, working on Fundraising and events planning

Events- Plan travel to competitions regionals and nationals

[evulish]

We basically have two rooms to work in.

Room 1: PR/business/other less cool stuff

PR: gets money, publicity, all that fun stuff...
business: spends money, records money, keeps team in order, all that fun stuff.
animation: animates (sorta...they blow stuff up...virtually...we have no animation :P)
webpage: uses WYSIWYG to create horrible webpages. team84.org *sigh*
button makers: hehe...greatest team ever...i was part of it for 2 years :) (not optionally, *sigh*)


Room 2: Building (a woodshop, no less :P)

building: researches, designs, makes mock-ups, builds, unbuilds, builds, destroys, builds, changes stuff, gets mad at unworking stuff, builds, builds quickly, builds quicklIER, falls over and dies (sleep deprivation) :)

Yeah...we have no building sub-groups. People do whatever they want. (People from Room 1 also tend to meander over to Room 2 and build stuff (or, rather, destroy stuff :D)

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by evulish
(People from Room 1 also tend to meander over to Room 2 and build stuff (or, rather, destroy stuff :D)

exactly

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Jnadke
We split up into different groups as well... In my former team anyways (Team 93).

Marketing - Set up different fundraising opportunities. Promote the team to the community.

Chairman's Award - No need to explain. Last year the people that did this also did marketing, so it could fall into there. This doesn't start, of course, until the build does. Marketing people tend to have all the creative ideas.


The Chairman's Award team actullay does start meeting before the Build starts. People from this committee get video footage of our team, doing things in the community, during the off-season.

Marketing people aren't the only ones with creative ideas!! :D

- Katie

[FRANK(WGH)]

Wel our team is devided into these teams


Assembly Team
A/V Photo Team (That's Me)
Design Team
Computer Team
Promotions Team
Competition Team

[Joe Matt]

Over the years, we've experemented with various ways and means, and found that the more groups there are, the less coversation between groups there is. So we've smushed all of the groups into 3 catagories...

-Propultion- the design, wiring, and construction of the drive train, base, and other related topics.

-Accessories- All those neat things that make the bot do certin things. Clamp on goals, lift balls, all of that. It's designed, wired, and constructed on this team.

-Programing/Communications- why combine these teams? So that communication can talk to the web page designers for updates and other missileaneous topics. Also, as stated in the title, this is where the usual communications and programing teams are.

[Molly Menges]

we have different sub-teams. they all work together, but everyone is split up into different sections. so even if you are on say public relations, you can help build the robot..here are our sub-teams.

Technical---they build the robot..

Public Relations---the do the public relations stuff (duh) and chairmen's award.

Information Technology---they do our website and animation

those are the sub-teams that get to go to competitions. we also have...

lego league---they obviously do lego league..

IR---(i don't remember what it stands for) they are in charge of all of the money stuff

i think that's about it...it works pretty smoothly... :D

[Don Taylor]

Mechanical - The build the robot
Electrical - programming,pneumatics, electrical, controls
Construction - Build field, goals, shipping crates, and anything else the team needs
Website - metalinmotion.com
Animation - Animation Competition
Chairmans Award - Chairmans Award presentation
Strategy - They decide how we will play the game
Logistics - Travel arrangements etc.
Publicity - Buttons, Shirts, media, etc.
Accounting - Money
Mentoring - Mentor Rookie Teams. provide volunteers for FIRST Competitions, etc.
Drawing - They create all drawing and Schematics

I think that is pretty much it

Don Taylor
Metal in Motion Team 343 (3+4^3)

[activemx]

- Mechanical
> Devided into smaller groups during build period
> Design, inventor, etc..
- Electrical (programing and wireing)
- Graphics
> Tshirts, Banners, flyers etc
> Web site
- Animation (3dsmax, audio)
- PR
- Finance

[sidewinder]

Every year we are faced with the problem of being a very small team. Here is our general break down for this year

P.R. -chairmans, clothing, event planning, travel

Design- the whole team does this together for about a two weeks

Electrical- learns and wires things

Mech- builds and engineers things

Group phil- team led by phil to design gripper

Group mat- team led by mat to design and build our mini bot

P.R. (robot group)- a small group or single guy in charge of promoting our robot to the judges and applying for awards.

Animation-

Then there are the competition groups

Drive team - drives, fixes, and polishes robot, stradegy

P.R. - our outgoing people

Scouts
1. scouts in the stands with palm piolots to gather info
2. pit scouts to asses the robots in the pit
3. pit spies (self evident)

P.R. (robot groups)- sucks up to anyone and everyone

[Redhead Jokes]

We have now during our "year round" program someone in charge of...

robot cart
ball handler
pr
video
painters (we've been redoing our facility)
http://www.bcrobotics.org/20022003/publicrelations/pressreleases/images/redoingautoshop2thumbnail.jpg
http://www.bcrobotics.org/20022003/publicrelations/pressreleases/images/redoingautoshop3thumbnail.jpg
programmer
transmission
crate


I haven't been in the program when they broke into groups for the six weeks' intensive, and the group changed so much since last year, it'll be different.

[IsabelRinging]

Administration
Animation
Awards
Operator Control Design
Mechanical Design
Software Design
Electrical Design
Fundraising
Public Relations
Competition
Fabrication
Spirit
Web Site / Historian

I suppose they're all self-explanatory (explanitory? explanetory? Bah, I can't spell).

[Hailfire]

Programming Team, Animation Team, Scouting Team, and in charge of Sponsorships as well as Team Co-Captain.