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Well, for my team, the subteams change in preseason and when the actual compitiion/building season starts. In preseason, we have subteams dedicated to the Chairman's award, PR, Fundraising, FLL Mentoring, Pit Design, and then we also break off in groups and go learn the basics of Machine Shop, Pneumatics, etc, etc.
Once the competition season starts howver, we seperate into a defined organization. First off, we have 4 main sections:
Electrical/Programming
Mechanical
Animation/Web
Fundraising/PR
in these rather broad subteams, we seperate further. I for one can only speak about mechanical, because it is what i did. Last year we had a chassis, drive, arm, wing, pneumatics/grippers, and an integration team responsible for making everything fit togehter. This organiziation was taken in part because we wanted the robot to be as modular as possible. All the different subteams made a part, with pointers from the integration team, and then all the parts were assembled. This allowed people to focus very tightly on certain aspects of the robot, and allowed our robot to be very organized and very easily repaired/modified.
This is just our method of organization. Most of the subteam leaders are mentors, although some are students. We try to have at least one mentor per subteam.
I Hope this was a help, and just some advice: The more organized you get, the better you will do. It sounds really annoying and crazy, but trust me, its not, and it works...very well.
-Nick Gauthier
Team #365
The Miracle WorkerZ
"uhoho! GO MOE!"
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