Student presidents

[Grim Tuesday]

Our team has a two tier leadership structure, a Build Team Manager, and a President. We follow a mostly democratic structure to our team, voting on all important decisions (strategy and general design). The president and BTM are elected in May every year. Traditionally, these people are the most invested members of the team. The president has been from a machining backround in the past and the BTM from a design one. The president can usually go about their usual business and fill in where it is needed: If a project is behind schedule he/she can go and help with it. The BTM is responsible for the overall robot; a project manager. They look at what is in the critical path, what will be in the critical path and try to clear it. In general, they have to have to some backround in the engineering process if the decisions they make are to have any weight. You would think that there isn't enough stuff for a project manager to position to do on an FRC team, but with a team my size (55+) there is more than enough. Every build night, I run around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to make sure that all the subprojects are on track. People tell me I worry too much, but that's my job.