2019 Destination: Deep Space Lessons Learned
Overall Improvements:
- We need to follow through with goals/objectives we set for ourselves during off-season and competition season
- Improve time management and scheduling
- Revise and refine team’s composition or organizational structure
- Create static sub-teams
- Minimize and/or eliminate excursions to BP gas station
- Begin scouting during the OFF-SEASON
Business Team:
- Begin working on Chairman’s award during the summer
- Follow up on the business plan
- Do not show the Chairman’s video during the presentation
- Utilize business book efficiently while in the pit
Competition Etiquette and Strategies:
- Implement a pit management system (with Excel spreadsheet, communication, etc)
- Develop a pit layout of where tools and objects should be placed
- BE RESPECTFUL AND OBEDIENT to the safety captain
- Enhance drive team communication methodology/system
Sub-team Improvements:
- Less focus on mechanical sub-team; enforce stricter timeline upon the mechanisms
- Incorporate the control systems and business sub-teams in the discussion about mechanical progress–KEEP THEM UPDATED!