As another step to meet these goals in your rookie year, and chairman's and design awards in future years, you may wish to implement a plan that we (in our fourth year) are just now trying to do - a "pit voice", or "pit ambassador". This should be filled by two or three students in rotation who (in order of importance):
- Can speak clearly, articulately, and preferably passionately.
- Understand your robot. Not only how many CIMS and spikes and pneumatic solenoids, but have a solid clue as to why these specific decisions were made.
- Know the team well enough that when a really technical question is asked (beyond what they know), they know to whom the question should be directed.
- Are not (at least at that time) critically important to robot performance.