So, you're not an engineer! How do you help your team??

[Jaine Perotti]

there are many things for non engineers to do on our team.
Our team also recently started doing animation...we trained a whole bunch of students this summer. Our coach has been wanting us to learn it for the longest time, but we didn't have anyone to teach us. We finally raised enough funds this year to train everyone interested in animation for free.
We also have to do a lot of marketing in order to raise money. We have a marketing committee who writes letters, organizes visits to different businesses, and organizes fundraising events. I am the student marketing director, as well as other things.
Another important non engineering job on our team is robot/crate aesthetics. Our team has been lacking in art on both our robot and crate for many years. This year, however, we finally decided to decorate our robot a little...we painted our pull-up arm blue and used chrome tape for the lettering. I also drew a couple of question marks on the lexan sheild once when I was bored. Right now, we have to get our crate looking better though...we have used the same one for at least 3 years and while it looks nice a bright blue, I think some bright yellow question marks painted on it would look really cool.
Scouting is another non engineering job. It is really importrant for us to be able to gather information on other teams. Back when we had about only 3 or 4 members onthe team, it was impossible to scout; when it was time to pick alliance partners we just took random guesses as to who we should pick. Now it is alot better...we have about five or six people at a time in the stands gathering information and entering it into a database.

overall, i think there is a lot of non engineering roles on the team. Almost anyone can find their place.