[Liam Fay]

1. How did you have your slack channel set up? (i.e subgroups, build groups, etc)
We have an #announcements channel to be used sparingly for things that the majority of the team would need to know such as "build team is not meeting this weekend" or "please fill out this survey". After that, we have department related channels, project related channels, and then, for a few days each, specific at-event-related ones.

2. Does your team have any guidelines to follow, such as rules that people have to follow?
We've been trying to cut down on unnecessary slack use, as we're already seeing our archived messages deleted due to running the free version. As such, we try and keep the PMing to a minimum.

3. How big is your team?
We are a team of ~60 students and ~20 mentors, though our slack has about 140 people on it, which is a result of alumni staying on slack, and encouraging non-mentor parents to join to stay in the loop.

4. How has it worked out so far?
Slack has been a life saver. I cannot imagine doing any of the organizational tasks that we do now using long email chains or group texting. This is so much better.

5. Anything we should know about Slack before we use it?
Slack turns your notifications off after a certain time (it varies), which can be annoying at competition, when you're up before 8:00 or still active after 5:00. You can turn these off.