subteams?

[Kris Verdeyen]

Our team also breaks into groups- except that we're all (engineers included) assigned to one part of the robot -


Last year's subsytems were:
Chassis/Drive train
Goals/Stretcher
Balls
Controls

We do the overall strategy and decide our design parameters as a team before we start building, and leave it up to the subsystems as to how it is accomplished. For example, last year we decided to go under the bar and handle the large balls as a large group, then sent off the drive train and big balls subsystems to try to rectify these disparate goals. (which they did)

As far as chairman's award, website and animation, these are handled by team members above and beyond their subsytem assignments.


And finally, the number of people on each subsystem on the specific nature of the beast. Drivetrain typically has a lot of people working on it (8 or 9), but some smaller subsystems can get by with 5 or 6.