Team Organization

[ElvisMom]

For hours we have a keypad with monitor at entrance - everyone enters their PIN as they come and go. Software is http://timeclockmts.com. Hours outside of the shop are documented and manually entered by team secretary. We post google doc without names (just PIN) on website so students can check their hours to make sure they are going to make their # to travel to competition. Right now we manually update the google doc every week, but might see if we can figure out how to automate after build.

We moved to electing our captains in May so they are in place over the summer. Captains prepare a brief speech about why they want role and students vote. Other roles are elected in October/November. Students self nominate for the role(s) they want and are then interviewed by the two captains. The captains, with input from adult mentors, present a slate of candidates to the team. Process worked well, but we always seem to tweak it a bit from year to year.

[zachrobo1]

Team 1002 has a fairly large club (around 130 people) that spans over 4 teams. To manage this, we have a fairly complicated system (arranged below):

Executive Board: Oversees operations of club

President

Vice-President

Fundraising Officer

Outreach Officer

Advisers (Other experienced members that advise club)

General Board: Handles other operations that deal with the club

Executive Board, plus

Webmaster

Media Officer

FRC Team Lead

FTC Team Lead

BEST Team Lead

GRITS (Offseason FRC) Team Lead

Rookie Team Lead

Next, we have outreach and fundraising committees that deal with the planning and executing of relevant events.

Finally, we have teams with subteam leads that usually consist of mechanical, electrical, Chairman's/Notebook, CAD, and various others for each competition.