Team Roles

Our FRC team usually has 35-40 students, broken up into several sub-teams. The team captains help run meetings and relates information to the team members.  The team captain helps with coordinating work between the sub-teams and helps to document the team’s work. The team captains help oversee the use of resources and promotes safety in the lab. The team captains make morning announcements to the Nichols Community. The Team Captains will help track team finances. The FRC Captain will attend Robotics Leadership meetings with the other Robotics Work of Life students.

The FRC team has set a goal to join the Open Alliance of robotics teams that share their progress and processes with the wider FRC community. Achieving this goal will require applying for membership in the Open Alliance in the fall and then creating regular updates on our mechanical progress through preseason, kickoff, build season, and competition season. Your work for this internship should take between 90 and 120 minutes each week. Though designated as “Spring Semester”, the work needs to begin in the fall with application to the alliance; it wraps up with a final post after our last competition in the spring.

The FRC team has set a goal to join the Open Alliance of robotics teams that share their progress and processes with the wider FRC community. Achieving this goal will require applying for membership in the Open Alliance in the fall and then creating regular updates on our programming progress through preseason, kickoff, build season, and competition season. Your work for this internship should take between 90 and 120 minutes each week. Though designated as “Spring Semester”, the work needs to begin in the fall with application to the alliance; it wraps up with a final post after our last competition in the spring.

A team goal is tomove as much of the work for Impact Award submission to the fall semester. The role of the Impact Award Captain is to oversee and drive the required work to document Impact work and outline the Impact Award submission for the team’s impact work completed during the previous year, summer, and fall.

The FRC Project manager uses management tools and constant communication to keep the team on track to produce a competitive robot during build season. This requires assigning tasks and following up on progress/completion; fostering communication among the different teams and workgroups; planning out milestones and holding the team to them; and making sure that design decisions continue to fit within the project plan.

A team goal is to continue to improve the onboarding process for students new to the team. New students have so much to learn - safety in the lab; team history, goals, and values; team structure and function; FIRST program structure and history; technical and communication skills in coding, CAD’ing, fabrication, and construction; tools and their uses; 3D printing, CNC routing, and many others. The role of the onboarding coordinator is to gather, create, and/or supervise the making of resources to provide a consistent onboarding process for new students.

Know all controls of robot; practice practice practice

Know all controls of robot; practice practice practice

Know all rules and controls; manage drive team logistics and coordination; interface with other drive teams for strategy

Know everything about setting up robot on field at competition; troubleshooting connectivity, power, pneumatic, other setup issues; Know how to generate and read competition logs

Know ALL rules of the game

Prepare well-rehearsed, accurate presentation to judges

Oversee and manage Impact Presenters and pit crew vis a vis judge interaction

In charge of organizing pit and conducting all inspection and repair of robot 

Know and enforce safety rules in shop and at competition; educate team on safe practices

Oversees development of pit and match scouting apps; oversees execution of pit scouting and match scouting

Help other teams in need of becoming competition-ready

In collaboration with team, sets strategy for our robot design; works with impact team on awards strategy; plans for alliance strategy

Oversee and coordinate CAD and fabrication of robot

Oversees cleanliness, organization, and space management in the shop.

Oversees development of the team website, both content and function

Captures team events and activities on various media for social media, website, scouting, impact video, reveal video, and other purposes

Oversee and coordinate outreach events and activities (NOT conduct; but help to advise and promote)

Travel; Food; Lodging; Pit planning; Pit Packing list; Impact packing list; Scout packing list; programmer packing list; bus packing

Design of shirts, pit, buttons, website, "fan" gear, other promotional stuff; helping to execute those designs

Thank you notes and other friendly team communication; welcoming at team-hosted events, etc.

Promote and facilitate team spirit at competitions