Charger Robotics Team 537 - Team Structure, Team Organization, Organization Chart

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Animation

Animation is responsible for producing our Autodesk Visualization Award Submission each year. They use Autodesk's stunning 3DSMax software to create beautiful, realistic animations to convey one of the aspects of FIRST.
Click here to view past animations.

Code

Code is responsible for programming the robot each year by utilizing software such as MPLAB, IFI Loader, and WPILib (software library). Their coding is done in C and Assembly languages and controls all of the actions of the robot. It is also the job of the Code team to develop code to run the robot during autonomous.
Mentored by: John Byrne, Jeff Hupfer, Bruce Van Eyck

Course and Crate

Course is the team that builds the playing field for our Open House/Mini-Regional each year. This field is also used by Team 537 for practicing and driver trials.

Crate is responsible for packaging and preparing our robot for Ship Day. The robot is then transported to our regionals where it is the Crate team that gets to unpack the robot and prepare our pit.
Mentored by: Bruce Van Eyck, Katie Hall

Electrical

Electrical is responsible for wiring the robot, designing the controls, and making sure all the sensors work. They produce and use the hardware needed for the Code team's software to run correctly.
Mentored by: John Byrne, Jeff Hupfer, Steve Michalski

Marketing

Marketing is responsible for selling our team to FIRST, the community, and to corporate sponsors. Marketing is responsible for attaining funds that are required in the build season, organizing fund raisers, and spreading the message of FIRST.
Mentored by: Lori Hinytz, Kari Woods

Mechanical

Mechanical is responsible for building our robot each year. They attain material, build and design parts, and construct those parts into a finished robot. Mechanical is further broken down into functional CDTs (Component Design Teams).

Drivetrain

Drivetrain is responsible for designing and building the chassis and drivetrain of the robot.

Special Functions 1 & 2

Both special functions teams are responsible for designing and constructing our "special functions" which include arms, shooters, stiff arms, collectors, etc...

Inventor

Many of our CDT leads are also skilled with Autodesk Inventor. This year we used Inventor 11 to model our complete robot before we built it. You can see some of our renders and drawing files here: http://team537.com/inventor.php
Mentored by: Dave Woods, Chris Paulik, Steve Michalski, Katie Hall, Dave Wechter, Rick Woods

Video

Video is the small team whose responsibility is to visually document our entire season. Last year (2006) our video was over one hour and 10 minutes long and featured short clips of each event in the season.

Web

The Web component design team is the small team tasked with getting the website beautiful and up to date. They are also responsible for moderating the forums and handling contact us form submissions.