Categories of Goals (priority order)

• team philosophy
  • rather than trying to give lots of students in the area an frc experience, we care about giving the best experience possible to a limited set of students
  • we want to create a culture where students care about robotics without outside incentives to be active and contribute
  • we care about competition and being competitive while maintaining a positive experience
  • We don’t want students to make severe sacrifices to be more competitive
    • All-nighters for robot, ruining grades/health, doing not ethical things at comp, violating spirit of first etc.
  • we want to be improve consistently in all aspects
  • We want to continue our culture of being student-led
    • Still want mentors involved in our team, but not directly building robot
    • More mentors are still helpful in structuring our team and helping with sustainability
    • One of our team’s defining characteristics based on past experience
• technical season goals (tech leads make a list beforehand)
• non-tech season goals (non-tech leads make a list beforehand)
  • awards

Too Late Before Season

• short term team goals (1-2 yrs)
  • Where do want to be in 1-2 years (in all aspects) and what do we need to do to get there
• longer term team goals
  • sustainability
  • Try to recruit a more diverse set of students
  • Though we should accept everybody who generally applies
    • Next offseason goal
    • Continue working on fixing history of only having one demographic (Asian/Indian men) (have pretty good progress so far but can be better)
    • Tradeoff robot performance for more diverse leadership? - post season conversation
      • Place in Issues doc

Tech Season Goals

Mechanical + Overall

• Successfully implement and use documentation that we developed over offseason (part tracker, build flow, engineering notebook)
• Quality Control checklist is adhered and applied to all parts of the robot
  • Every bolt on the robot has retention (Loctite, retention)
  • All metal is deburred and cleaned
  • Motor mounting accounts for wires
• Robot is functioning to its full capacity every match
• There should be confidence in the robot prior to every event
• One of 2 chassis should be operational at all times
• Schedule is the greatest priority for season and we will scope down functionality to hit our deadlines
• Have better comp execution than 2022 offseason (elaborate later)

Drive practice

• 4 hours of competition robot being consistently run per week before first event
  • includes time for prog fixes found through testing
• Driver spends 4 hours driving a chassis each week before first event