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Re: What do you do on your team?

I'll admit, I'm a little disappointed that this poll focuses mostly on the ROBOT or on the COMPUTER. There are SO many other roles on a FIRST team.

For example, every year I help out with the awards (which I guess is considered "documentation" by this poll), but there's also Scouting and Spirit which are essential for any team. I also work with the Website kids to make sure we have a reliable up-to-date website. Then there's the Events Planning/Fundraising committee and the Records and Business Committee. Again, I guess the latter could go with documentation, but it's so much more than that. A budget and a business plan are very elaborate and deserve their own respect. And the fundraising committee on our team probably works the hardest, having to re-arrange schedules and squeeze dates into inopportune times.

So, I know, as a mentor this makes me a NEM, but there's more to it than that. I love working with the manipulator (we had a lot of fun with various prototypes this year), and I love watching what the kids can do and teach me. This year, I've finally sat down with my dad and learned more about the electronics of the robot. In fact, we spent about 2 hours trying to place them on a piece of plywood so they wouldn't interfere with our gearbox motors or arm manipulator motors.

Today, however, my goal is to get the kids to sit down and finish the outline for their Chairman's submission and design a presentation board for our high school's 8th grade orientation next week. =) Every day brings something new!
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