Business & Media

The Business & Media Team is in charge of creating a business plan, making presentations for potential sponsors, keeping track of the progress of the progress of the team, and creating a video for competition know as the chairman's award video.   This team also handles our social media and our website plus coordinates outreach visits.  The business team teaches our students how to make formal presentations, canvas for sponsors, and develop the skills to talk to businesses in a professional and adult manner. This team helps teach members how to manage a team.

Design

On the design team, we go through the process of making various prototypes and designs to come up with the most effective and efficient design for each season. We spend a majority of our time testing and implementing, often partnering up with those on the Business team on one side and the Build team on the other to make sure everything we do is realistically plausible with the skills and abilities our team members possess.  Every member of Byte Sized is on the Design team by default.  We want all of our students to understand the design and design review process.

Here you will find our computer-aided design (CAD) our cardboard-aided design (also CAD), our 3D printing, and our graphic print design team (posters, tshirts, printed docs).  This team also creates our pit design and layout each year for competitions, our buttons and giveaways, and any outreach design needed. 

This year we are expecting the Design team to work on animation in the fall as well.

Programming, Electrical,  and Controls (PEC)

Our programming, electrical, and controls (PEC) team handles the coding of the robot, radios, software, and  operator controls.  Without this team, our robot is a very nice paperweight.  The programming team is dedicated to teaching our students the importance of utilizing technology in the modern world. We will teach anyone the basics of coding and give them opportunities to be able to expand knowledge. We use programming languages such as Java, XML, and Python to communicatec with our robot and issue commands to complete tasks based on the requirements of the game, allowing our robot to be able to perform at its best.

Mechanical

In the mechanical team, we put the robot together. After we determine the design we'd like to use to play the game, we make prototypes to make sure that the design is feasible and accomplishes what we need it to do. We then figure out the measurements of all the parts we're going to need and we cut them down to size. In this team , we teach members how to use hand tools and bigger machines to make parts. They learn what it takes to design, make, and assemble something that later accomplishes a bigger goal. Members can use these skills later in life to help them fix things such as cars.  

Pit Crew

The pit team is in charge of decision-making and design modifications when pertaining to the pit. the pit team also organizes, inventories, and cleans the pit. The pit captain is in charge of making sure that things run smoothly in the pit and that too many people are not present to hinder the mechanical team when fixing the robot.  

Safety

EVERY PERSON on the team is a SAFETY LEAD.   The safety team is responsible for the safety of the team and maintaining a safe environment in the pit. The safety team is responsible for the med kit, and knowing how to clean up a battery spill, and any tool pertaining to the safety of the team and robot. We also make sure the team knows how to safely use the tools available in robotics. This team's goal is to make sure students can have fun and safe environment when participating in robotics and shop activities.

Scouting

Scouting is the process in which we talk to other teams and learn about their robots, and competition strategy. Scouting is extremely important mainly in the qualifying competitions because you have a greater chance of being in the top choosing alliances when competing against a smaller amount of teams. Scouting informs us of the other teams' abilities, and personalities, so if we are in the top alliances and we have to choose which teams we want to invite to our alliance, we know who we work best with, and who has the most compatible robot.

Parents and Family

Parents and Family:  Our robotics teams would not be able to function without you.  Thank you for all you do to help.

Team Leadership Roles

Team Captain Role

Captain for a Sub Team:  Mechanical,  Programming, Electrical, Business, Design, Game Strategy, Safety 

Competition Lead Roles:  Drive Team, Pit Boss, Pit Scouts

Mentors

Tim Ohling, Louise Hill, Laura McCoy, Chase Hill,  Mary Ohling, Brian Cox, Matthew Van Loo, & Michael McSwiney,   and maybe soon...YOU!  Contact us if you are interested at frc4662coach@gmail.com