Our meetings are very consistent, everyone can come any day of the week unless our mentor says no because he cant be there, and the overall tam meetings are wednesday and Thursday.
I've got 1 person in the programming, 1 person in the strategy, and I pretty much manage everything else because the rest of the stuff (pretty much the rest of the design), because the rest of the dedicated people aren't experienced and are still learning (aka brand new freshmen that joined right before kickoff). We have three mentors, the head mentor is my engineering teacher at the high school, one is from lockheed martin, and another is from the TRF here on the sub-base. they are great assets and are doing the best they possibly can to make sure things get done. i think that one problem is that the head mentor believes that EVERYONE
should have a vote on what goes on the robot, which seriously injures the time to make descisions, and he wants to test like every single idea that we get, but we don't have that kind of time. our chassis isn't even assembled for cryin out loud
. i think that we need to have everyone contribute to brainstorming, yes, but leave it up to the group leaders to make the final say in what is implemented, because we can see the big picture where everyone else isn't putting in the effort. we are also the only school within a large distance, in fact the only one in camden county, georgia. im trying to work with what we learned last year and what other teams have learned what works and doesn't work, but it goes in one ear and out the other when i say that other more experienced team have warned against or put up the pros and cons of a system
. i just care alot about this team and i am hoping to get us somewhere this year, but we just aren't havng such a great start...