Team Leadership

• Representative and head spokesperson for Compass Robotics. Supervises all sub team activities. 
• Runs and plans meetings with Captains
• Coordinates build season schedule with mentors, ensuring everyone updates their schedule and has task assigned for each day
• Expert of the game manual and oversees doing an initial points analysis and leading discussions on strategies during kickoff.
• Must attend all team meetings and be there every day unless appropriate excuse
• Responsible with keeping in touch with parents along with vice-captain
• Main overseer, and not the main leader of the building – that responsibility lies on the back of the Mechanical Tech Lead; however, the captain may contest any decision other leads wish to make.
• Must keep positive and supportive communication with all leads
• Orders parts and supplies for the team

Award Responsibilities

• FIRST Leadership Award with Lead Mentor
• Woodie Flowers Award with Chief Operations Officer

• Takes over CEO roles in their absence
• In charge of team shirts
• Responsible for keeping in touch with parents Lead Mentor and CEO
• Helps make travel arrangements with Lead Mentor & Team Captain
• Assists CFO when necessary
• Must attend all meetings unless appropriate excuse

Award Responsibilities 

• Woodie Flowers Award - works with CEO

• Engineering Inspiration Award

• Acquires and maintains corporate sponsorships
• Facilitates fundraising for entire team
• Responsible for writing and/or editing grant applications
• Must be confident enough to talk and build relationships with potential and current sponsors
• In charge of keeping in touch with current sponsors 
  • Thank you notes (written on paper and mailed)
• In charge of sponsor representation
• Creates an Impact plan of action
• Must attend all team meetings and be there most days during build season
• Responsible for Impact essay and team sustainability award
• Head of outreach
• Records and keeps track of payments/budget (can appoint a treasurer to help)

Award Responsibilities

• FIRST Impact - Essay Only

• Team Sustainability Award

• Head of branding
• Head of presentations
• In charge of newsletters
• Manages the social media (Instagram Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube)
• Coordinates team photography and videos during the duration of the year and at events
• In charge of the FIRST Impact Award Video
• Develops the Build Season Video
• Responsible for the Safety Animation
• Responsible for the Digital Animation
• In charge of designing and ordering shirts
• Creates pins for competition
• Works on Spirit at the end of build season

Award Responsibilities

• Safety Animation Award

• Digital Animation Award

• FIRST Impact Award - Video Only

• Head of electrical subsystem and wiring
• Constant communication w/ Programming & Mech
• Must attend all team meetings possible for second half of build season
• Teaches electrical team members

Award Responsibilities

• Excellence in Engineering Award
• Industrial Design Award
• Creativity Award
• Innovation in Control Award
• Quality Award

• Co-leads design of robot’s structure - MUST know ENTIRE design of robot inside-out
• Most intensive time is during first two week of build season 
• Distributes workload to the rest of the sub team
  • Including BOM, Build Instructions, CAD, and Engineering Notebook
• Must set up organizational system for CAD files and enforce it with the design team
• Must attend all team meetings and be there all possible meetings during build season
• Works with Assembly team to construct the robot 
• Teaches CAD members
  • Ensures Design team is experienced with the software

Award Responsibilities

• Excellence in Engineering Award
• Industrial Design Award
• Creativity Award
• Innovation in Control Award
• Quality Award

• Co-head of robot build with the Technical Architect
• Informs the CEO of parts that need to be ordered
• Maintain close communication with the Design Team and TA
• Must attend all team meetings possible for build season
• Teaches mechanical members

Award Responsibilities

• Excellence in Engineering Award
• Industrial Design Award
• Creativity Award
• Innovation in Control Award
• Quality Award

• Distributes programming workload to the rest of the sub team
• Coordinates software sub team meetings
• Ensures the software sub team is experienced enough to use the tools needed, maintain conventions, and program the robot.
• Encourages constant communication between software sub team members
• Must attend all team meetings and be there all possible times for second half of build season
• Teaches programming  team members

Award Responsibilities

• Autonomous Award
• Innovation in Control Award

Responsible for finding and attracting new members. Would be the contact for interested kids at the table when we do outreach events.  Would create posters and announcements to send to STEM teachers at the various schools in the area.  Would introduce the awesomeness of FRC to kids that don't know anything about it. This is an absolutely critical role for sustaining the team.

Would be responsible for onboarding new team members.  Teaching them about the various sub-teams so they can figure out which sub-team they might be interested.  Arrange "training days"  to help new members learn the skills they might need.  Coordinate doing Summer  or Fall robotics camps.  This would help our outreach as well as recruitment.

Responsible for scheduling and producing the  News (blog posts), Instagram (not reels), and Facebook, (and maybe Mastadon?)  Works with the CMO to coordinate on theme, quality, sponsor representation. Works with the Video Media Manager to promote their videos and drive traffic to the website.

• Designs and organizes the pit with dedicated members
• Head of keeping all of our building environments organized
• Must be present all possible days for first half of build season
• Constructs game pieces according to FIRST manual, adjusting the designs as needed according to materials the team has but ensuring identical dimensions as original pieces
• Organizes and supervises the design and build of all non-robotic materials (such as creating pit materials/decor)
• Most important weeks are first 3-4 weeks to make sure game pieces are built and ready for robot to practice with
• Constructs bumpers for the robot

• Develops a scouting database and data collection systems (ex: lovat apps)
• Keeps the drivers informed about the capabilities of other relevant FIRST teams (mostly those in Florida and at World’s if we attend World’s) 
• Keeps team in stands engaged

Responsible for scheduling and producing the  video content for Youtube and Instagram Reels.  Targeting the release of two videos per week.  Works with the CMO to coordinate on theme, quality, sponsor representation.  

• In charge of working toward the safety award, promoting maximum safety within our team (and to other teams during competition)
  • Ensures proper use of tools and PPE (personal protective equipment including safety glasses and hearing protection).
  • Ensures fire extinguishers, first-aid kits, and battery spill kits are on the scene.
• Understand the safety portion of the game manual
• Create team safety manual, including battery safety information (MSDS)

• Coordinates and strategizes with other alliance members prior to the match
• Communicates with the driver about other actions on the field, so that the driver can keep their attention on the robot.

• Tryout for Driver during Pre-season
• Operates the robot, coordinates strategy with Scouting Captain & Drive team
• Non-exclusive position. Other leads and captains may run for this position (excluding Team Captain)
• Practice whenever available
• Identifies and Trains backup driver.

• MUST be able to attend BOTH competitions