[David Smellie]

Our team has a three student leadership group: one CEO/President of the Board, and two Vice Presidents (one for Engineering and Robot Operations, the other for Public relations and Marketing). In addition, there are several department heads appointed directly by the CEO based on input from the VPs and mentors. The positions are Head of Design, Head of Electrical, Head of Programming, two Pit Captains, Head of Strategy, Safety Captain, and Scouting Captain for the current year. In addition, there is a joint student-mentor board made up of the CEO and the two VPs and several of the mentors of our team.

The CEO is a position held by a veteran senior on the team, usually with two years of experience. The CEO's jobs are to schedule and lead team meetings, call meetings of the student-mentor board, prepare an agenda for the board meetings, and make competition schedules. The CEO maintains a strictly hands-off approach to the team. The CEO is also responsible for making sure time is used efficiently during build season, shuffling around team member duties when necessary, and making sure the main ideas for robot functions are prototyped. In addition, the CEO is responsible for preparing applications for the position the following year, and choosing the new CEO with the student mentor board. At the beginning of their term(at which point all graduating members are now no longer members of the team, occurring in May or June), the new CEO puts out applications for the two Vice Presidents and chooses the VPs with the board. As stated, the CEO also appoints the heads of the various subgroups, which while usually static throughout a season can and have changed previously.

The VP of Engineering and Robot Operations helps oversee the scouting, drive, and pit teams during competitions. Like the CEO they generally take a hands-off approach although at times will help out. He helps the CEO decide on the pit crew for both qualifications and eliminations making recommendations based on behavior he observes.

The VP of PR takes a much more hands-on approach than the other two student leaders. He actively works on our chairman's and Woodie Flower's essays (a mentor handles the Dean's List essays) and also serves as one of our three presenters for the Chairman's Award. In addition, he writes articles for the newspaper we put out at every competition and serves as one of the editors for the other articles written. He is also in charge of the layout of the newspaper.

As for technical experience, I am CEO for the team this year. Last year I served as a programmer during build season and a full-time member of the strategy team during competition season.

If there are another questions about the setup, feel free to ask.