1. Marketing:

a. Objective: To market the team to the school, students and the community

b. Responsibilities:
1. Send out thank you notes to all donors
2. Make a current brochure
3. Send out team pictures to major donors
4. Organize fundraisers
5. Web Page up-keep
6. Maintain the donor list
7. Get Albertson’s and Von’s card holders on board

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Dream Weaver to maintain the web site
2. Organizational skills to keep jobs moving along
3. Effectively present and represent our team to community organizations

2. Drive Train:

a. Objective: To design, build and maintain the system that makes the robot mobile.

b. Responsibilities:
1. Build a quick and responsive drive train that is easy to build and maintain. This is part of the robot that gets a lot of use and wear and can break down easily if not built well.
2. Maintain the drive train at competition
3. Help design the wheels
4. Determine the robot speed
5. Determine the size of the wheels, tread, sprockets, chain and transmission that the robot will use.
6. Determine the motors used by the drive train.
7. Get all this designed and parts ordered by the end of the first week. Get the system built by the end of the second week. Test the system and maintain it for the rest of the build.

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. How to determine optimal wheel speed for the challenge.
2. How to make and break chains
3. How to set bearings into the wheels
4. Maintain and be able to work with on the transmission that is to be used.

3. Programming:

a. Objective: To write the software that will make the robot easily accomplish its objectives

b. Responsibilities:
1. Learn how to use the software that will program the robot.
2. Be able to program a variety of sensors including the gear sensor, the camera, the ultra-sonic sensors and others.
3. Work CLOSELY with the other teams and find out what will need to be controlled with the software. It is your responsibility to find out what you are controlling.
4. Design the control board and determine the best control system. Fabrication will fabricate the actual control system with the help of the electrical team per the programming teams specifications.

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Learn the programming software inside and out to attack any problem.
2. Understand the variables to effectively approach problems

4. Fabrication:

a. Objective: To make (machine, weld, cut) parts that are required for the robot to achieve its objectives. Parts such as the frame, appendages, drive train are all designed by other groups that will over see the work done by this group.

b. Responsibilities:
1. Connect, weld, machine whatever needs to be done to get the robot finished.
2. This group will pick-up any mechanical work that needs to be done.
3. Surface finish work to make the robot pretty such as sanding.

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Be able to use the Mill, Lathe and other cutting tools
2. Be able to weld aluminum
3. Practice safety 100% of the time
4. Practice mathematical accuracy
5. Be able to measure material with rulers, micrometers and calipers.

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5. Design:

a. Objective: To take the basic designs determined by the group and make them into a workable robot. This group will make the drawings and design the robot to make it meet the objective.

b. Responsibilities:
1. All the parts of the robot will need to be designed and thought through completely before they are manufactured. This group needs to make sure the entire robot fits together and works as a whole.
2. Develop simple prototypes to display the design.
3. Determine our teams’ game plan including other “plan B” option.
4. Watch the overall weight of the robot as well as the placement of this weight. The lower the weight the lower the center of gravity (CG).

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Inventor software
2. Expand their mind to think of all possibilities and weigh out the bad ideas (good judgment)
3. Basic drawing skills, so you can show on paper what your idea is.

6. Electrical:

a. Objective: To learn the wiring schematics and then wire the robot cleanly and efficiently with excellent quality connections that will not come loose in competition. This team will also need to design and attach the electrical boards to the frame with the help of the frame team.

b. Responsibilities:
1. Determine the placement of the battery (keep it as low as possible)
2. Make all electrical connections
3. Make the electrical board
4. Carefully follow the wiring diagram and use the correct gage of wire for ALL wiring as indicated on the plans.

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Soldering
2. Crimping wires
3. Wire gage

7. Appendages:

a. Objective: To design and manufacture the parts of the robot that are used to manipulate the game pieces.

b. Responsibilities:
1. This team needs to do complete the final design of any arm or other manipulator that the robot needs to use to move competition pieces.
2. Any chain drive or gear drive needs to be calculated by this team.
3. Determine best materials by researching to best suit the appendage(s) such as plastics, aluminum and …

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. The strength and weaknesses of different sizes of aluminum, and different types of composite materials.
2. Mathematically calculate lengths and strengths of appendage including strength of motor.

8. Frame:

a. Objective: To design and manufacture the frame and the points at which the robot attaches to other components such as motors, appendages and electrical board. Items that this group must coordinate are drive train, appendages,

b. Responsibilities:
1. This group is responsible to integrating all the parts of the robot on the frame.
2. Keep track of weight of overall robot and manage the main weight of the frame

c. Skill sets that this group must learn:
1. Welding
2. Safety and proper use of machines

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