[Jnadke]

We split up into different groups as well... In my former team anyways (Team 93).

Marketing - Set up different fundraising opportunities. Promote the team to the community.

Chairman's Award - No need to explain. Last year the people that did this also did marketing, so it could fall into there. This doesn't start, of course, until the build does. Marketing people tend to have all the creative ideas.

Strategy - This group doesn't start until the build starts. They meet the first 2 days and put together a bunch of strategies. This group was pretty much pointless because this past year our team met as a group and discussed robot design anyways. When the team met we just got the basic ideas of how our robot would work.

Design Ideas - These subgroups only met to solidify the design concepts of our robot, so the CAD team could go to work. The designs were preliminarily tested for proof-of-concept, then they went to the CAD group. These were split into:
-Grabber group - design our goal grabbing device
-Drive group - design our drive system

CAD - This group was responsible for keeping the design layouts of everything in our robot. This was probabaly the largest group of them all. Their job is to, of course, design the part, print up the specs, and put them in the 'to be machined' box. The design groups consisted of these members.

Machining - This group learns how to use the machines available to us in the metal shop. We have a bunch of lathes, milling machines, drill presses, band saws, welding tools, and plasma cutters. During the build their job is to take CAD drawings from the 'to be machined' box and machine them. Then put the finished part along with the original drawing in the finished box.

Electrical/Pneumatic/Programming - Last year this group consisted of 3-4 members, which worked perfectly because this is one of the easier things to do. It's fairly straightforward... wire the robot, set up the pneumatics, and program the robot. pneumatics and programming each took < 1 day.

Animation - This group consisted of 2 members. Their job was to come up with the animation idea and create it. They then worked with the CAD group to get the robot model and put it into the animation.

Actual building of the robot - Pretty much everyone did this, as long as you knew what you were doing.


I don't think I forgot anything.... I if I did, correct me.