Sub-Teams

Non-Engineering Teams

Team Mentor: Mrs. D

The non-engineering teams work on communicating; developing the website with social media included, marketing and publicity for the team, making videos and taking photos of the team, creating animations and developing a business plan. The scouting teams are included in the business side of the team.

Project Management

Team Leader: Elizabeth Person
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer and Greg Cesiel

The Project Management Team exists to keep each part of the team running smoothly together, managing a project schedule for robot construction, and ensuring that each and every person on the team has a specific and important role on the team. This team also creates the written portion of several award submissions.

Scouting, Statistics & Strategy

Team Leader: Elizabeth Person
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer

The Scouting, Statistics & Strategy Team gathers information about other FRC teams. This takes place before and during competitions. By scouting other teams alliance selection, game strategy and marketing become easier and choices can be made quicker.

Digital Media

Team Leaders: Grace Nguyen
Team Mentor: Andrew Drummer

The Digital Media team focuses on utilizing new media capabilities to advertise the team and keeps various social medias up to date, including Facebook, Twitter, and others. The team also keeps the information on the website up-to-date, and prepares a media plan to detail the uses of the various communication methods.

Photo & Video

Team Leader: Cameron Johnson
Team Mentor: John Savage

The Photo and Video Team records everything that takes place during team meetings, competitions, and outreach events. They are also responsible for the organization of the photos and videos placed on the website. This team mostly works in correspondence with the Digital Media team.

Business

Team Leader: Joey Bolewitz
Team Mentor: Kim Twarozynski, Shelly Sochanski, and Julie Alspach

The Business Team is responsible for the team’s publicity, general image, and advertising. Typically, the business team orders, prepares, and distributes competition handouts, as well as designs the pit, t-shirts, and other graphics.

Animation

Team Leader: Mia Swanton
Team Mentor: Steve Trachsel

The Animation Team are responsible for the development and use of animation. Annually, the Animation Team submits an animation for the safety FIRST animation contest.

Engineering

Build

Team Mentor: Warren Hildebrandt

The Adams Robotics Build Team is just that; it is the team dedicated to the design and creation of the physical robot. Each year, the build team is separated into several smaller teams based on the requirements of the game in order to efficiently build all the mechanisms of the robot. This year the build teams include: Chassis, Disc Shooter, Disc Acquisition, and Climbing Mechanism.

Chassis

Team Leader: Jordan Phillips and Anuja Dandekar
Team Mentors: Warren Hildebrandt and John Savage

The Chassis Team is in charge of basic frame and drive system of the robot.

Disc Shooter

Team Leader: Tanay Patel and Eric Celerin
Team Mentors: Rick McBride

 The Disc Shooter Team collaborates with the Disc Aquisition Team to develop and build a shooting mechanism that receives and shoots the discs.

Disc Aquisition

Team Leader: Sydney Micklas and Max Nakfoor
Team Mentors: Janet McBride and Telva McGruder

 The Disc Aquisition Team is designing a mechanism to work in collaboration with the Disc Shooter Team to effectively pick up and deliver discs to the shooter.

Climbing Mechanism

Team Leader: Andrew McBride and Miles McGruder
Team Mentors: Gary Clark and Mathew Anthony

The Climbing Mechanism Team is in charge of designing and building a mechanism that can climb the pyramid obstacle efficiently and safely.

Programming

Team Leaders: Ben Bray and Steven Ploog
Team Mentors: Michael Del Rose and Jim Micklas

The Programming Team is responsible for all computer-software aspects of the robot. This includes learning how to use new software and writing programs to control the robot.

Controls & Electronics

Team Leader: Jason Merlo
Team Mentor: Gary Sochanski and Greg Cesiel

The Controls & Electronics Team focuses on the wiring and electronics of the robot in relation to the field.  They work closely with the Programming Team and Driving Team in order to create an easy-to-use and effective control system.

CAD / Design

Team Leader: Zach Sullivan
Team Mentor: Werner Eckardt and Steve Trachsel

The CAD / Design Team creates both 3D and 2D computer models of our team’s robot design.  These designs help us ensure that the robot will work and fit together properly before we physically build it.

Mentoring

Team Leader: Darpan Sodhi
Team Mentors:  Greg Cesiel and Maria Romero

The Mentoring Team includes mentoring both the FTC team from Van Hoosen Middle School and the FRC team 3478 The Lambots from Mexico.

Field

Team Leader: Eric Hennessee and Maxwell Chappell
Team Mentors: Mike Merlo and John Markel

The Field Team creates a replica of the field or a replica of part of the field to provide a visual for the build team and a practice environment for drivers.

So how does this work?

Click on either organizational chart below to see a visual of how everything fits together.

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