Pigmice Organization

Build Season is Too Short and Too much Work

• Our entire team often work sequentially.
• Team mates are often unclear what to do.
• Teams unclear what to deliver to others.

How can we effectively work together?

Each Captain structures their team into sub-teams.

Each sub-team needs:

• Leadership:
  • A Lead / Student Mentor
  • Leads need Assistants (probably Freshmen)
• Clear responsibility
• Ownership

Teams do not need silos. (What’s a silo?)

Sub-teams allow us to:

• Work in parallel
• Clear products and deliverables
• Defined Knowledge

programming-team-connections.pdf

100 Freshmen are interested in Pigmice
15 come back the next week
5 stay and become contributing members

We need to engage new members!

New members need to know the following:

1. What our Robotics Team is/does
2. Why join?
3. Their potential place in our organization
4. How they can be productive

Clearly, this is pretty easy to explain.

• FIRST
• FRC
• Pigmice
• Outreach and Service Projects
• Our team structure

Place Pigmice and FRC in a larger context.

• Mad Skillz
  • Learning STEM by applying STEM
  • Building Large Projects
  • Leadership and Mentorship
• Helping the community and your school
• Community Outreach
• Part of a team

Our Team Structure shows their potential place, but how would a new member know where they fit?

Each team and subteam should:

• Give a presentation explaining their group
• Make a demonstration to show off what they do
• Create a small project for new students to try

That’s a lot of stuff to finish over the summer!

How can new member learn basics quickly?

How do most students learn? How did you learn?

• Online?
• Lessons?
• Projects?

At the beginning of the school year, you’ll be teaching all the new students.

Are you ready?