Every team member who attends the competition should read and be familiar with the Rules & Expectations for FIRST Robotics Competition Events: https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/event-experience
The strategy team collects all available information and uses it to distill the best strategy for every match.
Strategy Lead: This person is responsible for distilling a strategy for the team based on the collected scouting information and conversation with our alliance partners. If this person is a student, they serve as our team’s representative during alliance selection, possibly becoming the alliance captain for the elimination rounds; if not, the most senior student scout fills this role instead.
Scouting Lead: This person is responsible for coordinating the scouting effort. They assign scouts for each match, and collect the results and organize them for easy access and use.
Scouts: These people collect data from matches for use in strategy – whether for match strategy or for creating pick lists. On Thursday, some Scouts also visit other teams in the pit to collect data through interviews. Ideally, there should be enough scouts for one scout to be assigned to each robot for each match, with a few extras so that scouts can take breaks.
The pit crew maintains and repairs the robot so that we can perform our best in every match.
Pit Mentor: This mentor advises the pit crew and sets priorities for the work that needs to be done.
Mechanism Experts: Each of these students is an expert in one of the robot’s mechanisms and is responsible for its keeping it reliable and functional.
Domain Experts: Each of these students are knowledgeable in at least one of the domains such as electronics or programming, and is responsible for carrying out work in that area.
Some students may fill roles as both Mechanism Experts and Domain Experts.
The drive team executes the team’s strategy during matches.
Driver: This student is responsible for controlling the robot’s movement across the field.
Box-Op: This student is responsible for controlling the robot’s game piece manipulation mechanisms.
Drive Coach: This student or mentor is responsible for maintaining situational awareness and applying the team’s strategy to the various situations that occur during the match.
Human Player: This student fulfills the role Human Player role described in the FIRST game manual. This typically involves precise and rapid manipulation of game pieces to make them available to the robot.
When we aren’t currently in a match, the drive team (including coach) should watch other matches to learn from other drive teams.
The awards and publicity team make sure we look our best to everyone at the competition.
Team Spokesperson: This student is responsible for interacting with people who visit our pit. They talk to judges that come by to ask about our robot and our community activities (delegating to other members of the pit crew for the more technical discussions). They also respond to questions from other teams’ scouts that come to our pit to ask about our robot.
Chairman’s Award Presenters: This group of students represents our team to the Chairman’s Award judges panel with a presentation about our team’s activities.
The media team keeps a record of the event.
Match Archivist(s): These people take video of all the matches at the tournament for use later by the strategy team (for deciding on pick lists) and drive team (to debrief matches). They capture the video and also keep it organized for easy access and viewing.
Team Photographer(s): These people are responsible for capturing photographs and video of the team for use in publicity and promotional materials, and for historical record.