with work teams you have ?
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Build, electrical, cad, programming, and buisness
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Design
Mechanical
Electrical
Programming
Marketing
Scouting
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Business:
Outreach
Media
Awards
Robot:
Mechanical
Assembly
CNC
Machining
Electrical
Software
Strategy:
Strategic management
Strategic software
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Design
Strategy
Programming
Electrical
Build
CNC
Scouting
Media
Business
Mentors
Senior versions and leads of each subteam
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Controls
Controls but they control CAD software
Controls but they control bolts and stuff
Controls but they control social media
Controls but they control scouting software
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It used to be
Mechanical
Electrical
Software
Business
but now it’s
Mechanical
Controls
Media
and we steal people from robot stuff to work on awards and stuff.
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We are a small team (12 Students, 3 mentors), we have three major areas and one mentor per area.
Design and Mechanics
Programming and Electrical
ADM and Marketing
When we are in the middle of the Season build, we start preparing for the Regional, so we start
Drive Team
Presentation Team
Scout Team
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Build
Electrical
CAD
Coding
Business (Marketing, Outreach, Media, etc)
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We divide into roughly 3 subteams, each with its own sections and varying number of students and mentors. Many team members are a part of more than one subteam as well.
This is what we looked like in the 2023 season with 24 students and 9 mentors.
Build (~7 mentors, ~18 students):
Design
Machining
Assembly
Electrical
Software (~2 mentors, ~6 students):
Robot
Scouting
Marketing / Business (~5 mentors, ~10 students):
Social Media
Recruitment
Sponsorship
Outreach / Impact
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Mechanical/CAD
Art
Electrical
Programming
Scouting
Business
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Mechanical
Chassis
Field Elements
Electrical
Programming
Finance
Social Media
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Captains
Overall
Mechanical
Business
Sub-Team Leaders
Design
Control Systems
Programing
Assembly
Manufacturing
Scouting
Strategy
Rest of Team
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We’re a pretty large team (at the beginning of the year). We have a business-like structure and divide into 4 departments. Here are our structures and team members coming into the 2023 preseason.
Build - 64 students
CAD
Mechanical
Technology - 77 students
Software
Electrical
Outreach - 13 students**
Scouting
Awards
Outreach
Business - 18 students**
Fundraising
Finance
Media/Public Relations
**Our Outreach and Business departments are a bit more fluid in structure.
Our team has shrunken down and members have moved around throughout the 2022-23 season, after the build season our team is down to about 45-55 active members, with departments evening out more.
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Design
Fabrication
Controls
Assembly
Programming
Scouting and Strategy
Business
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As a very small team (my in-season team):
- programming (5 students)
- mechanical (6 students)
- strategy/outreach (1 student, included in mech)
- media (1 student, included in mech)
- electrical (2 students, included in mech)
On the offseason team, everyone has different skill sets from different teams so the division is basically whatever people feel like doing on a particular day. For example, programmer whose team had never built swerve wanted to try it, so he built a module today with mech! This really only works if everyone on the team has a previous skill set though.
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Our divisions mostly come down to
- Mechanical
- Electrical and/or Programming
- Impact & Outreach
- Media/Social
- Scouting (near competition)
We usually have 5-7 leaders and 15-20 students. And usually closer to 12-15 for competitions.
Business/Fundraising/Grants doesn’t always seem to have a clear group but some crossover from mostly the last two major groups.
edit: Wanted to add I’m not sure if more or less divisions work better for our team. It is something want to maybe ask again because maybe it could let more students be in smaller parts officially that may lead to better follow through. But also as a small team it seems like less overhead to try and organize with fewer divisions.
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Our team size is 20 to 40, depending on year and time of year, with around 8 active mentors. The team was somewhat larger with more active mentors pre-COVID, and we seem to be gradually expanding again.
Primary sub-teams:
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- Programming
- Design
- Marketing (includes fundraising, outreach, media, etc.)
Secondary teams staffed by people who are also on one of the primary sub-teams:
- Strategy
- Scouting
- Drive Team
Design team was introduced a few years ago, with the intention of improving at developing designers, but results have been mixed. It turns out designers need to know everything that mechanics know (& more) to be effective, and separating design resulted in students who knew more CAD but less mechanics. Most were not ready to contribute to robot design, so they ended up having to catch up to others in mechanics and do mechanics work anyway. So we’re considering collapsing design back into mechanics, with students interested in design going through the same mechanics learning progression as everyone else. To become robot designers, they just have more to do on top of that (CAD self-training, additional training sessions on design process, etc.). We have not made a final decision yet.
We have our team divided into two main areas, technical and non-technical. The technical area is called Scuderia STEAMex, we base our processes and culture in Formula 1 teams.
Scuderia STEAMex
-MINDFACTURING: Mechanical, electrical, CAD
-Code Lab: Programming
-SIA (STEAMex’s Intelligence Agency): Scouting & Strategy
Non-Technical:
-Business Center: Administgration, fundraising, finance, media
-Changemaking Hub: Project management, documentation, outreach
-EDI: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Special areas*
Impact committee: prepare the impact award
STEAMates: a special area that works during competition, similar to Citrus Service
Engineering Quality and Control this “area” just works as part of our culture
The same goes for safety
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