Team Goals & Ways to Achieve them

1. Develop Student Leadership

- Leadership Bootcamp
- Have Students Create a Business Plan
- Have an anonymous suggestion box
- Encourage Students to Lead Thunderbolts
- Buddy Program with New Students
- Review Last Year's Feedback & Work to Improve It
- Follow up on activities being organized by students
- Require Subteam leaders to attend Bootcamp
- Student Subteam leaders in build season – in charge of wiki
- Students leading event present info to team
- More Small Leadership Trainings, lead by student leaders
- Improving training for new student leaders
- Leadership Applications include resume & cover letter

2. FLL Focus & Development In Rochester

- 1511 FLL Committee – at least 1 meeting/month
- FLL Camps, Coach Training, Info Session
- Support Kickoff & Tournament, Host Rumble
- Future Rochester FLL Committee?
- Assist teams with Funding
- Have FLL Fliers & Signup sheets at All 1511 Demos & Events
- Arrange more FLL Demos
- Train more Master Mentors
- Start up more new teams
- Contact Schools that Don’t have FLL
- Improve/Update FLL Page on our Website
- Work More w/Buffalo & Syracuse
- Work with Baytrail
- Start JFLL in Rochester (Penfield)
- Get Penfield involved in Lego Education

3. Community Involvement & 1511 Thunderbolts

- Keep Track of Thunderbolts, make webpage
- Fliers around town, bulletin boards, etc
- Plan weekly community events ahead of time
- Achievements & Focus on getting them finished early!!
- Tie in with more sponsors
- Develop a 5 Year Plan
- Write down how many people we affect at each Demo
- Photos & Attendance from Every Event
- Spread out our activities to different places/locations
- Get on Community Mailing lists to help with events
- Get on PTA & school mailing lists to support events
- Select a Cause
- Community Service Page on our Website
- Get more involved with girlscouts & girls organizations
- Continuous Food Shelter Involvement
- Write to government officials
- Set goals for raising money for other charities

4. Organization & Communication

- Preseason, Build Season, Summer Schedules & Schedule Management
- Help Subteams set & obtain specific goals
- Biweekly Preseason Subteam Reports/meetings, reports at team meeting
- Update Team Handbook
- Team Newsletter
- Increased Communication with Sponsors
- More Timely Patron Book
- Business Plan & Better Budget Tracking
- All Team members required to get 1511 Forum & Chief Delphi Accounts, training
- Planning things ahead
- Online pdf library of documentation
- Get involved with Business & Leadership classes
- Wiki structure for Preseason, subteams
- Team phone tree
- Better use/understanding/trainings of email lists
- Improve build season use of the wiki

 

5. Education (School & FIRST Classes/Training)

- Optional Homework Hours
- Tutoring Setup/Preseason Study Night
- Training: CAD, Programming, Webpage, Drivetrains, Business, Mech, Elec
- Rotation Nights & Full Training Nights
- Online Training Courses
- Learn from Championship Courses
- Online Documentation for Rookie Teams
- Presentations & assistance for Rookie teams
- Bring in Outside Speakers, other teams  & sponsors
- Science/Math/Robotics Camps for Elementary Students
- PLTW Robotics Course at PHS (Longterm)
- Basic Curriculum for Subteams
- Safety Training
- Preseason Design
- Get more involved in PHS classes
- School Day Presentations

6. Design Process Focus

- Study Design Process & Develop webpage & summary sheet
- Train team on Design Process
- Bring in an "expert" to talk to the team about it
- Plan Build Season Around Design Process
- Inventor & Brainstorming Training
- Focus on a small # of things to do well with the robot.
- Subteam Specific Training

7. Individual Growth, Team Growth & Team Building

- Individual Development Plan & Follow Up Reviews
- 2-3 Teambuilding Activities (outside meetings)
- Meeting Teambuilders
- Buddy System for New Members
- Recruit New Mentors, Students & Teachers
- Parent Group
- More "Out of Commons" Activities
- Vex or FLL Robot Building
- Mechanical Mentors/FLL Mentors/Business Mentors
- Demos & Speeches in Classes

8. Fundraising

- Patron Drive (or substitute two fundraisers)
- Hexbugs
- Bottles and Cans
- Cookie Dough Sale
- Pizza, Candy drinks sale
- Cookbook
- Mini golf
- Carwash
- Hold a school festival
- T- Shirt sale
- Booster Club
- Game tournaments

9. Have Fun!!!

- More Teambuilding Activities
- More group outings
- Recreational activities
- Festivals, fairs, amusement parks
- Outdoor days, videogame days

Welcome!

Welcome to the digital home of Rolling Thunder, FIRST Robotics team 1511. The team is from Penfield High School in Penfield, New York and mainly sponsored by Harris Corp. To find out more about the team and FIRST, please visit the Who We Are page.

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