About the AdamBots
AdamBots Team 245

Sub-Teams


Business Teams

The Business Teams work on communicating, including developing the website and social media, dealing with marketing and publicity for the team, making videos and taking photos, and developing a business plan.

Administration and Team Management

Team Mentors: Rick Drummerand Mrs. D

Manages the schedule, review meetings, action item list, due dates, mentoring, etc.

 

Sustainability

Team Leaders: Tanav Ray
Team Mentors: Rick Drummer, Dipa Mukherjee

Planning for team sustainability, continuity, and partnership via the AdamBots Business Plan. We also submit for the Sustainability Award and present at competitions for several awards.

 

Impact Team

Team Leaders: Arjit Agarwal, Janhavi Ramekar, Joshua Fernandes

Team Mentors: Rick Drummer, Dipa Mukherjee

Our job is to create a 10,000 character essay, along with perfecting thirteen 500 character questions and creating a 7 minute creative presentation to submit to the judges at the FIRST competitions. 

 

Website

Team Leaders: Griffin Moore
Team Mentors: John Savage, Sue Savage
We manage the website for our team. By updating information about the team dynamics, competitions, outreach, pictures and resources.

 

Photo/ Video

Team Leaders: Brenden Niu
Team Mentors: John Savage, Sue Savage
We capture images and videos for team use. To used on the website, on posters and in communications. We take videos of our matches at competitions for the drive team to review. We are also responsible for making the video for the Impact Team and end of the year wrap up.

 

Imagery

Team Leaders: Gray Bhuvaneswaran, Kat Pickard
Team Mentors: Dipa Mukherjee
We create displays, posters, signage for the robot and our pit, and T-shirt design graphics.

Communications

Team Leader: Janhavi Ramekar
Team Mentor: Michelle Pickard
The Communications team covers Facebook, Instagram, X posts and public communications for the AdamBots.


Engineering Teams

 

Mechanical Team

Team Leaders: Luka Super, and Mark Yin.
Team Mentors: John Savage, Larry Garstick, Mike Merlo, Joe Priskorn, Glenn Yin
The AdamBots Build Team is just that; it is the team dedicated to the design and creation of the physical robot. The Mechanical team acts is organized as a pool this year where students and mentors simultaneously focus attention on all aspects of the robot design. Major sub-systems for robot this year are the Chassis, Arm Mechanism, Climbing, and shooter/intake design.

 

Programming

Team Leaders: Aarush Gota, Tommy Radabaugh, and Jay Modi
Team Mentors: Pete Rylko, Scott Radabaugh, Rajeev Bhuvaneswaran, Krishna Koravadi, Xinyu Fang, Sunil Ramakrishnappa and Jasbir Fernandes
The programming team is responsible for designing the code that controls the robot’s movements, including drive controls, autonomous movements, and vision.

 

Electrical

Team Leaders: Arthur Kim, Sid Bhat
Team Mentors: Gary Sochanski, Kevin Price, and Dean Watson, Joe Priskorn

Responsible for design of electrical and pneumatic circuits required to perform robot function.

 

CAD

Team Leaders: John Price, Matina Green
Team Mentors: Antonio Torres and Chad Moore

The AdamBots CAD team gives all the physical aspects of our robot numerical precision. Each year we come in with new concept to create digitally. The job of the CAD team is to make a visual representation of ideas prior to building a robot. It’s a lot of fun.

Supply Chain

Team Leader: Tvarika Vinothan
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer

The AdamBots Supply Chain is responsible of keeping track of items and parts that we have and ordering what we need.

Scouting

 
Team Leader: Eryn Yang
Team Mentor: Rick DrummerThe AdamBots Scouting Team is a big part of our competitions. They are responbible for scouting other teams and their robots performance. Then compile a list of weakness and strengths of our competitors to use for alliance selection.

Field Build

 
Team Leaders: TBD
Team Mentor: Mike MerloThe field build team constructs a practice game field for the team’s robot. We receive blueprints from FIRST of how we build the game field. Using the blueprints, we put together the field with an assortment of materials, and we use many tools to do so. Usually we take wooden boards, cut them to size with a type of saw, and then put the wood together to plan. Sometimes the field does not take too long to make, so we use our time to help out our team with side projects like extra shelves for supplies or tool boxes.

 

Safety

Team Leaders:TBD
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer

The first aid kit always fully stocked
Not wearing safety glasses? I’m shocked!
Though finding the time has proven rough,
We ran a drill, since we know our stuff

So how does this work?

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