Team Goals & Specific Ways to Achieve Them:

Develop Student Leadership

• Leadership Bootcamp
• Leadership Team & Subteam Leaders = Students
• Have Students Create a Business Plan
• Have an annonymous suggestion box
• Give Teammembers more responsibilities
• Individual Development Plans
• 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
• Appropriate Delegation



FLL Focus & Development In Rochester

• FLL Subteam
• FLL Camps, Coach Training
• Harris Involvement
• Increase 1511 Involvement -Student Requirement
• Support Kickoff & Tournament, Host Rumble
• Future Rochester FLL Committee?
• Assist teams with Funding
• Have FLL Fliers at All 1511 Demos
• Arrange more FLL Demos
• Get/Train more Master Mentors
• Organize Teams
• Contact Schools that Don’t have FLL
• FLL Page on our Website



Community Involvement & 1511 Thunderbolts

• Keep Track of Thunderbolts (create list from Rookie year)
• Activity Coordinator Position
• Fliers around town
• Newspaper Ads
• More community events planned ahead (possibly weekly)
• Requirements & 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 from Every Event
• required for credit
• Spread out our activities to different places/locations
• Get Community More Involved
• Ask Town Hall if we can volunteer for anything



Organization & Communication

• Specific Schedules & Time Management
• Preseason, Build Season, Offseason goals & priorities
• Restructure Subteams & help set specific goals
• Back up plans of things to do in Build Season
• Link to our site from School Website
• Biweekly Subteam Reports/meetings
• Leadership Meetings on a separate day from Team Meeting & 5:30 prep for Team Meeting
• Update Team Handbook
• Team Newsletter
• Increased Communication with Sponsors
• More Timely Patron Book
• Business Plan & Better Budget Tracking
• Build Season Master Schedule
• Documentation Book (all distributed documentation)
• Leadership Shelves & Organization Materials
• All Teammembers required to get 1511 Forum & Chief Delphi Accounts.



Education (School & FIRST Classes/Training)

• Homework Hours
• Tutoring Setup /Preseason Study Night
• Training: CAD, Programming, Webpage, Drivetrains, Business, Mech, Elec, Etc.
• Rotation Nights & Full Training Nights
• Online Training Courses?
• Learn from Championship Courses
• Online Homework Help?
• Training for Rookie Teams
• Bring in Outside Speakers
• Science & Math Camps for Elementary Students
• Elementary Mentoring Program
• Ask Section
• Homework Help on our Forums
• PLTW Robotics Course at PHS (Longterm)



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.



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

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