What was your role each year on your team?

[synth3tk]

2007: Sophomore year; Webmaster, media team, mascot.

This was my first year. I just started late at this new school, and heard a morning announcement regarding a meeting for a robotics team. Interesting. I attended, viewed the prior year's animation video, got hooked ever since.


2008: Junior year; Webmaster, media team, mechanical team, drive team, mascot.

At this point, I did more with the media than the actual robot, but I begin to work with the hand/power tools. Most of my regional time was taking photos and running around in the bearcat suit.


2009: Senior year; Webmaster, lead media. Volunteered at the Buckeye regional.

Not much, really. I stood back that year. We had great seniors leading the programming and mechanical divisions, so I figured I'd have fun and do whatever after finishing the website.


2010: Mentor, webmaster, programmer and programming mentor, t-shirt designer, drive coach, fundraising, events planning/management, recruitment.

My first non-student year, so I had a lot of free time. We had zero programmers this year. One of them graduated, the other (a senior this year) had work too often to help. The programmer role was sort of thrown onto my plate at the last minute (read: Kick-off). We also lost our robotics/metal/wood shop teacher due to budget cuts, and he managed some of the other roles listed here, so myself and our lead engineer (who is the school-appointed team leader) had to split a few of those roles. The sudden changes were a bit overwhelming, but we're pretty strong right now, especially with more school/district support now.


We've been a relatively small team since I've been involved, so I've always had to pull multiple roles. It's really not as bad as it sounds, though.

[carbuff2228]

2007-Scouting Lead
2008-Mechanical member
2009-Scouting/strategy
2010-Scouting/strategy
2011+ i plan on mentoring 2228

[JamesBrown]

2005- (Team 1568) Started the team with a couple other students. Was the only programmer on the team (taught myself to program during the season). Team Captain, and scout.

2006- (Team 1568) Team captain, Driver, Lead student programmer (had a programming mentor this year).

Graduated High School

2007- (Team 1568) Programming mentor and Drive Coach. (Team 1493) Propulsion team mentor, designed two speed transmission that was built into the chassis wall.

2008- (Team 1493) Control Team Mentor, focused mainly on Autonomous, sensors and scripting code. (Team 1350) Helped out at beginning and end of season with Strategy/Design as well as Programming and Debugging.

2009- (Team 1665) Lead Programming mentor, also helped with wiring and control system design. (Team 1350) Helped out at beginning and end of season with Strategy/Design as well as Programming and Debugging.

2010- (Team 3280) Programming and Control Mentor. Also worked with both of the schools FTC teams.

Over my three years working with teams around RPI I also spent a fair amount of time writing and debugging software for other teams in the area.

I have also worked with FLL teams since 2006.

[Kyle A]

I actually started in FIRST back in 2000.

2000- FLL, builder/ programmer
2001- FLL, builder/ programmer
2002- FLL, builder
2003- FLL, builder/ Joined FRC 306 in the off season

2004- some robot work/ made lots of buttons/ but mainly spectator/ scouting
2005- built prototypes/ machinist/ scouting/ camera man
2006- pit crew/electrical/mechanical/machinist/ photographer/scouting/Graphic work/ did whatever i was told? helped FLL teams
2007- electrical/mechanical/machinist/CAD/ pit crew/ Drive Coach/ scouting/ talked to Judges/ Graphic work/ knew how everything on the machine worked and how to fix it/ helped FLL teams

2008-College help, went in and helped as much as i could
2009- year off went in once to see how things were going
2010- Helped with some mechanical and design issues/ spectator at events

[Wildcat]

2009: mechanical worker and scouting lackie, not much to say about that year.
2009 off-season: Took up job of Scouting coordinatior for my teams only off season event. Ran scouting at our off season and helped my team make it to the finals where sadly we lost by 1 moon rock.
2010 Official Scouting coordinator. Now my team's crate of scouting supplies lives with me, next to my computer. I completely re-vamped the scouting system my team had making it more efficient and more fun. With the help of a mentor who was a former team member and his brother (a freshman) we were able to successfully introduce a new form of scouting: video Scouting where we were able to record matches for scouting purposes. Thanks to my new system and the awesome scouting ability of my team we were able to make the semi's at our last event. In addition to all that i am the only non-senior driver on my team, currently back-up driver.

[efoote868]

2005 - Field building
2006 - Newb programmer / electrical
2007 - Programmer / electrical
2008 - Head Programmer / electrical
2010 - Mentor, hands off

[ZeroGAdam]

*2002-spectator, no involvment
*2003-spectator, still no involvment
*2004-(FRC381) first year, scouting, strategy team
*2005-(FRC381) second year with the team, scouting, strategy, design
*2006-(FRC381) Third year, design, build, and website
*2007-(FRC381) Fourth Year, scouting and website
*2008-(FRC381) Fifth and Final year with 381, scouting leader, design, strategy
*2009-spectator, more experience, went to every event in tri-state area
*2010-(FRC2180) First year with 2180, leader of scouting, worked on website design, worked with build an design of robot
2011-(FRC2180) Hopefully leader of design, scouting, and building.

*=before high school

[DeifiedPenguin]

2007 - Miscellaneous freshman, learning a bit of everything.
2008 - Second most knowledgeable at Inventor, also learning a bit of 3DS Max. It was around here when I stopped touching the robot.
2009 - Alternating between Inventor, Animation, and Strategy.
2010 - Animation Captain, doing Strategy planning in my spare time.

And now I'm about to go off to college for Mechanical Engineering. Go figure.

[cpeister]

2007: Gr 8 - joined newly formed FLL team at my public school. --> Programmer, a little bit of build.
2008: Gr 9 - joined FRC 781 --> little bit of everything. Mostly mechanical. Mentored my FLL team.
2009: Gr 10 - 781 --> Mechanical, did some driving at offseason demonstrations. Mentored my FLL team.
2010: Gr 11 - 781 --> Programming team. Unfortunately too busy to mentor FLL.
2011: Gr 12 - 781 --> this will be my last year of highschool. Hope to mentor FLL again. after that, I may mentor while at university if there are teams nearby

[Dancin103]

1997 - Team Mascot.
1998 - Team Mascot, Head Cheerleader, and Field Reset.
1999 - Cheerleader.
2000 - Cheerleader and Biggest Button Collector.
2001 - Scout, Button Collector, Cheerleader, and FLL.
2002 - Scout, Electronics, and Cheerleader.
2003 - Electronics, Manufacturing, Scout, and Cheerleader.
2004 - Manufacturing, Operator, PR, Scout, and of course Cheerleader.
2005 - Manufacturing, PR, Marketing, Scout, Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader.
2006 - PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader.
2007 - PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, pit presentation crew, Coach (off season), Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader.
2008 - Team President, Head of PR, Marketing, Business Plan, Hall of Fame, pit presentation crew, Coach (off season), Video and picture crew, and Cheerleader.
2009 - Mentor and PR and Marketing.
2010 - Mentor, PR and Marketing, and Scouting.
The only job I haven't done on the team is Animation.

[Phoenix Spud]

2004/2005-FLL, I don't really remember that much... (The Inventioneers)

2005/2006-FLL, we only had 4 students, so we all did it all. (The Inventioneers)

2006/2007-FLL, Had lots of fun. I did it all, but our team really started outreach this year. (The Inventioneers)

2007/2008-FLL, Same thing... (The Inventioneers)
-FRC, I was Safety Captain and helped with wiring. I didn't get a chance to do much programming as I was still busy with the 2007 FLL season. (Team 2342, Team Phoenix)

2008/2009-FLL, This was my final year as an FLL participant. At my last tournament I cried because I knew I was going to miss my FLL team SOOOOOO much when my family moved to Australia. (The Inventioneers)
-FRC, I was the Safety Captain and in charge of Autonomous mode. I also helped with wiring. (Team 2342, Team Phoenix)

2009/2010-FLL, I moved into a mentor/judge role. I mentored 4+ FLL teams and judged at the New South Wales States, and Australian National FLL tournaments. I also talked at the NZ pilot FLL tournament and was a volunteer.
-FRC, I was the Team Captain and helped in all areas of the team. I tried (with a little success) focusing on electrical, but I also helped with mechanical, programming, animation, buissness, communications, fundraising, travel, public speaking, t-shirts, and anything else that was needed!!! (Team 3132, Thunder Down Under)

2010/2011-FLL I hope to continue in a mentor/judge role, I don't think I could ever give FLL up. It started me on a path that has been amazing, and if I could give that to more students, I would be very happy.
-FRC, I will be a participant, I imagine doing whatever needs to be done again. I hope to pass on my knowledge to the younger students we will have coming in so when I am done with FRC in 1-2 years there won't be a gap in knowledge. (Team 3132, Thunder Down Under)

[Fe_Will]

2004 (Junior) (FRC 955) Chassis and Drive Team, Drive Coach
2005 (Senior) (FRC 955) Team Captain, Drive Coach
--Graduated--
2006 (FRC 955) Mechanical Mentor
2007 (FRC 955) Mechanical Mentor
2008 (FRC 955) Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor
2009 (FRC 955) Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor
2010 (FRC 955) Team Coach, Lead Mentor, Mechanical Mentor

It just seems to keep adding up...

[Rion Atkinson]

In 2008 I started my first year at Francis Tuttle's Pre-Engineering Academy in Oklahoma. It was there first year trying a mentoring program in which they assign a returning student to a new student to show them around and give them any help they require throughout the year. My mentor turned out (By complete randomness) to be a fellow home-schooler. A week or so later he walked up to me and told me about a robotics team he was on. (It was a BEST team) I decided to join after a few meetings.

We won 1st place in the Robot Competition and 1st place in the BEST Award at OKC BEST. We then won 2nd place in FT Smith with our robot. While at Ft. Smith I was told about a team that some of the students from BEST do. It was called FIRST. I said sure I'll give it a try. Turned out to be the most fun I had ever had.

Now during the time between our state and regional competition we wanted to try and put something fun in the pit. Because of this I was playing with a bunch of wiring. In doing so I caught the team captain's eye(Also the team captain on the FIRST team)

2009: Electrical Team Captain
2010: Team Captain and CAD guy
2011: No idea yet.... I'll be starting a new team though.

[blayde5]

2 years on the team.. Still fun haha

10th grade - 2009: Chassis Lead designer and machinist. Fabricated most of the plates and parts on El Toro XII and Inventorized our chassis from 2009. I was in the pit crew as well.

11th grade - 2010: Mechanical Lead and machinist. I was in charge of getting all things mechanical done on the robot, which I did not really succeed with, and teaching the rookies during our offseason trainings. Also did some volunteering at FLL events, Toys for Tots, and at Calgames (field reset)

[fsgond]

2007- Pit crew at IRI
2008- Lead Electical/Programming group, human (hybrid mode) player, IRI Field Coach
2009- Mentor, On and off when school allowed, helped with electrical/programming, IRI Field Coach
2010- Mentor, Programming/electrical, website help, other random things