Team Structure

Welcome back readers!

I realized that in my most recent post I described the various positions members held in the group, but I haven't really explained what they do or what the team structure of the group is. That will all be explained in today's post!

The head of our club is the President, who is Stuart McCrorie. His job is to supervise all of our operations during the season. All the other Leads report to him throughout the build process. Our Vice President, George He, is his right hand man and aids with a lot of the planing that goes on. The next slightly lower level in our team are the Leads. The Leads are a group of students in charge of different fields of the build process. They collaborate with each other to make sure everything will work together smoothly when we put the different components of the robot together.

First, we have our Mechanical Lead. Charlie Depew, our Mechanical Lead who has had two years of FRC experience, is in charge of the Mechanical Group. His responsibility is to make sure everything mechanical gets done correctly. He will be assisting and guiding the students of the Mechanical Group in the actual construction of the robot.

Second, we have the Electrical Lead. Vasu Maheshwari, this years Electrical Lead, will be in charge of the Electrical Group. Their task is to get the motors all wired correctly, have all the fuses in working order, and make sure all the electrical systems are a go. Vasu will be there to make sure all of those tasks are getting done.

Our Software Lead will have the next important task. Jaidev Bapat, our Software Lead, is obviously in charge of the Software Group. He will make sure we will have code or a program for our robot to function properly. We also hope to have an autonomous mode set for the matches.

Next is our Quality/Safety Lead, Annam Quraishi, who has a fairly simple and straightforward task that is fairly important. She will enforce the safety rules we have in place at our build area and this will be extremely important to have in the pit area at a regional competition. Her job as this lead also includes making sure our robot has been made well.

Then you have me, Hailey Sanidad, the PR/Business Lead. My job is fairly general and covers a variety of tasks. Spirit, website, blog, sponsoring, and things like that. The only real difference about my position in comparison to Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Quality/Safety is that those groups only really apply to the build season while PR/Business is year round.

There are students in the different groups I have named above, except for Quality/Safety because that task is general enough for everyone to be a part of and we only need one main person to maintain it. If you have ever heard of anything robotics or FRC related, you're probably wondering "where are the mentors in this pyramid scheme?". Well my dear reader, let me tell you. The mentors this year are in a weird middle ground. They are here to help and give suggestions, but it is the students have the final say. It may need to be discussed with the Lead of the particular group or with the President before a decision is reached.

Finally, we have our master mind. She is the main mentor and in a way the head of this whole operation. Our President Stuart is pretty high up there, but Sohini Stone is standing right next to him in this team structure. We owe a lot to her for all the planning she has put into the team this year, especially since she has also helped put this team structure in place.

I think covered everyone for the team structure and what roles are being played. If you have any questions, please email me or comment and I will answer to the best of my abilities!

Sincerely,
Hailey Sanidad
PR/Business Lead