Team Rules HHS / NASAHQ Robotics, Team 116

Membership

Any student at Herndon High School may participate provided that they meet attendence and behavioral standards.

• Every member must have participated in an engineer-run shop training and safety instructional session.
• No member may miss more than four meetings during the course of design and construction (from the kickoff meeting to the National Competition). If a member has exceeded the four absense limit and feels that the team should make an exception, he or she may make an appeal. Appeals shall be considered and judged by a three person panel, consisting of the two student co-captains (the industry and ancillary co-captains, discussed below) and a faculty advisor.
• Members must contribute substantially to the design and construction of the robot. Evaluations of member participation shall be determined by the subsystem leaders. Subsystem leader evaluations may be appealed to the appeal panel discussed above. Evaluations of the subsystem leaders shall be made by the members of the relevant subsystem team. These evaluations may also be appealed to the appeal panel discussed above. All decisions of the appeal board will be considered final.

Leadership

The team shall consist on the highest level as two divisions, the Industry Division and the Ancillary Division. Each shall have a leader called a Co-Captain assigned by the teacher sponsor. Each Co-Captain may, if desired, appoint an Operations Manager to assist him or her with his duties. Within each division, several sections shall exist, each led by a Section Manager, to be appointed by the teacher sponsor in consultation with the Co-Captain of the appropriate division. An outline of sections follows:

• Industry
  • Competition Section (led directly by the Industry Co-Captain): responsible for organizing the design and construction of a robot for participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
  • Prototyping Section (led directly by the Industry Co-Captain): responsible for conducting an education competition in the fall to prepare members for the actual competition.
  • Shop Management Section: responsible for maintaining a safe and organized environment in which to construct the robot.
  • Inventory Section: responsible for organizing and maintaining supplies for use on the robot, as well as some shop-management supplies.
  • Animation Section: responsible for creating a computer animation presentable for the animation competition of the FIRST organization.
• Ancillary
  • Chairmanās Award Section (led directly by the Ancillary Co-Captain): responsible for presenting a submission to the Chairmanās Award component of the FIRST Robotics Competition.
  • Website Section: responsible for maintaining a website for communication within the team and between the team and the community.
  • Historical Section (whose section manager is called the Historian): responsible for organizing and maintaining a collection of records, designs, photos, and all other relevant materials from past years.
  • Secretarial (Records) Section (whose section manager is called the Secretary): responsible for organizing records for the current year.
  • Art and Design Section: responsible for establishing a consistent aesthetic theme between the Chairmanās Award submission, website, promotional fliers, etc, and submitting a logo to the FIRST administrators.
  • Public Relations Section: responsible for establishing ties to the local press informing the community of current events.
  • Outreach Section: responsible for recruitment of new members at other schools, establishing links with elementary and middle schools, making presentations and providing outreach material for the Chairmanās award.
  • Photography Section: responsible for acquiring photos of the team for use in the Chairmanās award.
  • Treasury Section (whose section manager is called Treasurer): responsible for keeping detailed and accurate records of the financial situation of the team, as well as controlling the use of tax-exemption forms, etc.
  • Travel and Logistics Section: responsible for organizing all travel to and from the regional and national competitions.

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Herndon High School / NASA Headquarters FIRST Robotics Team. Page authored and maintained by Peter Jaffe, approved by Dave Lavery, December 15, 2000