Goals/Challenges

Short and long term goals set by the Business Team at the start of 2015

Short Term Goals

1. Build and program a successful robot with the capabilities to tackle each portion of the FRC game this upcoming season This will be accomplished by forming a strong team this season, forming a schedule to ensure we will finish in time, and planning out our designs before we build them.

2. Win one of our two regionals this coming FRC season and go back to Championship This, we will accomplish my building a successful robot, and forming and extensively training a strong drive team. 3. In the next two years, win a design award for our robot at competition

This will be accomplished in several ways. Firstly, we need to have more designs planned out and CADed to show where our work came from. We also need to have a knowledgeable, prepared and motivated pit crew who are able to talk to judges when the rest of the team is not around.

Long Term Goals

1. Win two regionals in the same season This we will accomplish with a knowledgeable build team and by building a strong and successful robot. We will also accomplish this by having prepared pit crews and scouting teams.

2. Be chosen on, or be choosing alliances at Championship in the next three years This year, we got some great experiences being at the championship competition, but we would like to accomplish more. This we will do by building a strong robot, but also by further improving our scouting team and making ourselves more recognizable. We want to stand out as a great team to the teams we talk to.

3. Become a known face at Championships by consistently qualifying This goal can only be accomplished by winning more regionals. We would like to win at least every other year (but preferably more than that). We need to come up with a unique aspect of our team that teams can recognize us for.

4. Bring in more students to both build and programming We would like a 50% increase in our number of members on build team and a 50% increase in our programmers in the next two years. This will be accomplished by making our team a more recognizable face at our school. We want students to know what we are doing, and what they will gain by joining the team. We need to work hard to pull more interested people in, and keep them on the team.