Team Roles
There are many roles within the Student Robotics Team, not all of them technical.
Mentoring
Technical
As a mentor you will:
- Visit participating schools on a weekly basis (travel expenses covered)
- Encourage the students to work well as a team
- Monitor teams progress and offer help where needed
- Relay technical difficulties or questions to the Student Robotics Team
- Help the teams make sensible decisions about budget, timing and designs
- Follow the team from first designs to competition day!
Technical
Technical
We need people with experience of, or who are excited about:
- C Programming - Most of the firmware for the various micro-controllers is written in C
- Linux Distributions - Create custom builds to suit the available hardware
- PCBs - Design Manufacture and Construction
- Mechanical - Skills ranging from motor and servo controllers to making chassis and prototyping are needed
- Circuit Design - Analogue and digital design
- Vision Systems - Help make the most of the vision systems of our robots
- Microprocessors - PICs, MSPs etc.
- Web Design - Help create an on-line environment for students as well as providing a professional front to sponsors
- Python - Python is currently the language of choice for students programming their robots
Management
Management
We need people to organise:
- Hardware Budgeting
- Health and Safety
- Keeping track of progress and deadlines
- Accounts
- Communicating with sponsors, SUSU and important people
Media, PR and Sponsorship
Media
In order to secure funding and find teams to participate we need people to
- Communicate with schools -
- Organise events to publicise Student Robotics to schools and students
- Maintain the public website
- Talk to sponsors about who we are and why they should support us
- Encourage more students from Southampton to take part in this fantastic organisation
- Help expand to other universities and schools
Competitions
Competitions
We URGENTLY need people to help out with our first major competition on April 12th, tasks include
- Greeting teams and showing them to their workstations
- Getting teams (and their robots) to the arena at the right time
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