Parent/Mentor/Coach Issues

[jwallace15]

How many members are on your team? I can recommend our organisational structure to you.

Each student is required to be in two sub-teams; A technical one, and a managerial one.

The technical sub-teams include Chassis, Manipulator 1, Manipulator 2, Manipulator 3, Electrical, Programming, and Field Build/Bumpers. These teams work on the robot.

The managerial sub-teams include Design, Entrepreneurship, Media, Website, Awards (the writing of them), Safety, Animation, and Scouting/Strategy. These teams focus more on the structure of the team, and help manage the team as a whole.

Each type of group (Technical and Managerial) is headed up by the highest on the food chain in terms of responsibility of the team. These two people (including the team leader) oversee the doings of every group under their catergory. Each group is headed up by a team advisor. The team advisors are a group of 7 mentors whom are essentially the bosses of the team. Adult mentors work under the advisors, and aide students in accomplishing the task at hand. Under the adult mentors are student sub-team leaders. In the beginning of the season, students ran for these positions. They manage some of the smaller tasks in the group, such as the division of work (I am the sub-team leader of our Media team). And finally, each group has students working in them.

At competitions, we organise students in a few different ways. We have our pit crew, a group of three students who work in the pits and fix the robot when it is broken (two advisors work with the pit crew to ensure the robot gets fixed). We have our ambassador and safety captain. Our ambassador mainly talks to judges, and helps us win awards. The safety captain's position is pretty straightforward. We have our drive team, who watch matches and strategise on how to win matches. Then we have our strategist, who tries to develop an alliance picking list. His data comes from him watching matches, but is also aided by our scout team and data enter-er. We have 12 students on our scouting team, one for each robot. After every 17 matches, the students who just scouted are replaced by 6 fresh scouters. Our data enter-er enters data gathered from scouting, and gives that data to our drive coach, who shares that data with the other teams on our alliance (I'm a scout, and switch off with another scout (when we aren't doing our scouting shifts) with taking pictures. A pit crew member takes video of our robot during out matches on our tablet, and those videos are used by our drive coach to coach our drivers).

I hope this helps resolve your issue!