[Brian Maher]

Here's how we use Slack on 1257:

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1. How did you have your slack channel set up? (i.e subgroups, build groups, etc)

We have public channels for each of our subteams, other projects, and miscellaneous other topics that need a place to be talked about (for example, we used Slack channels to coordinate our trips to Champs and IRI this year).

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2. Does your team have any guidelines to follow, such as rules that people have to follow?

We warn students that is a place that must be kept school-appropriate and that all robotics-unrelated discussion must be limited to the Random channel. We haven't had very many issues with this one.

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3. How big is your team?

Our team has around 40 members.

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4. How has it worked out so far?

4. Slack has worked incredibly well for us to keep all team discussions in one place and expand team-wide discussion beyond in-person meetings. This is immensely helpful during the heat of build or competitions season, when everyone's constantly thinking of ideas for the robot or team, even outside of meetings. It has the advantage of not being social media such as Facebook, which some students are not on, and where student-teacher interactions may be frowned upon

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5. Anything we should know about Slack before we use it?

Slack has fantastic mobile apps so students can get push notifications and send messages from their phones.