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Re: Team Structure
Truck Town Thunder is structured in such a way that every member has some interaction with the robot and everyone has a responsibility on the managerial side of the team. To do this, there are two major groups on the team; Technical and Managerial. An example of each could be Chassis and Website. Each member has to be in one group from each of the two. I, for example, was in Manipulator 3 (shooter group) and Design (even though design/CAD is more or less a technical group, it is considered managerial for various reasons). Another student might be in Programming and Media.
Here are the sub-groups that I remember:
Technical:
Chassis
Manipulator (1,2,3)
Programming
Field Build and Bumpers
Managerial:
Design
Website
Scouting/strategy
Media
Awards
I may be forgetting one but you get the point. This system enables each student to be a part of a group they really like but are also exposed to other things. Then there are people like me who only care about robots and choose to be in design and manipulator (no affiliation with the real managerial side of the team)...whatever floats your boat. The system also eliminates major segregation of males and females within the team. It worked for us; give it some thought.
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Keegan Harrington
Truck Town Thunder
2013-2014: Mechanical Design
"Infinity: you empty out all of the coffee and there is still more orange juice"
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