17 | | Regular Sponsors |
| 17 | Things to do for Operations Team by Month: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | **Remember/Recommendations** |
| 20 | •Have a 10-20 minute meeting in the beginning to update each member of ops |
| 21 | •Set up deadlines and refresh them every 2 weeks or a month |
| 22 | •Keep in constant update with Chief Delphi related to Ops things |
| 23 | •Specify tasks for each students & mentors |
| 24 | •I.e. Newsletter people focused on newsletter, Social media people focused on social media |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Summer |
| 27 | '''July''' |
| 28 | •Plan and Brainstorm for future tasks, outline, goals, ideas, prospects |
| 29 | •Prepare for outreach activities |
| 30 | •Settle on logo/fundamental team marketing items |
| 31 | •Work on theme for Fall training |
| 32 | •Begin work on an operations procedures document? |
| 33 | |
| 34 | '''August''' |
| 35 | •Check & Reorganize Website and Social Medias |
| 36 | •Outreach bin check-up and organization |
| 37 | ◦Check what we have and how much we have |
| 38 | ◦Find out where things that should be in the bin are and get them in the bin |
| 39 | •Plan for inter-subteam project |
| 40 | ◦I.e. LED Spirit panel to use in the competition (co-op with electrical) |
| 41 | •Finalize the curriculum for Fall Training |
| 42 | •Finish operations procedures document? |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Fall |
| 45 | '''September''' |
| 46 | •Sponsor Relations ($$ and support) |
| 47 | ◦Send out emails |
| 48 | •Set up plans to expand our access to capital |
| 49 | ◦Gaining new sponsors |
| 50 | ◦Specific fundraisers |
| 51 | •Organize team members & their interest => assign specific tasks for each of them |
| 52 | •Start on designs and spirit items |
| 53 | •Begin monthly review video series? |
| 54 | |
| 55 | '''October''' |
| 56 | •Choose subgroup leads(Business, Outreach, Marketing) |
| 57 | •Spirit ORDER |
| 58 | ◦T-shirt (Tech Booster) |
| 59 | ◦ID tags? |
| 60 | ◦Who’s the mascot? |
| 61 | •Designs ORDER=> Decide which to continue |
| 62 | ◦Brochures |
| 63 | ◦Pin |
| 64 | ◦Banner |
| 65 | ◦Business card, microfiber wipes, stickers, pens…… |
| 66 | ◦Brainstorm for ideas? |
| 67 | •Award write-ups Decision (http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/awards) |
| 68 | ◦Woodie Flowers |
| 69 | ◦Chairman’s? |
| 70 | ◦Dean’s List (mentors) |
| 71 | ◦Entrepreneurship award |
| 72 | ◦Media & Tech? |
| 73 | |
| 74 | '''November''' |
| 75 | •Follow up with each tasks |
| 76 | •Begin Award Writeups/ Award Writeups Initiation |
| 77 | •Design marketing materials |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Winter |
| 80 | '''December''' |
| 81 | •Follow up with each tasks |
| 82 | •Begin Business Plan |
| 83 | •Newsletter |
| 84 | •Outreach activities |
| 85 | •Order the marketing materials we can |
| 86 | •Brainstorm how things would be and what should be done for and after the kickoff |
| 87 | |
| 88 | '''January''' |
| 89 | •KICK OFF!!! (Make time for members to participate in design process) |
| 90 | •Begin weekly update video series for YouTube |
| 91 | •Spirit items related to the theme of the game that year |
| 92 | •Final review of award write ups |
| 93 | |
| 94 | '''February''' |
| 95 | •Submit award write ups |
| 96 | •Follow up with each tasks |
| 97 | •Begin competition documents |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Spring |
| 100 | '''March''' |
| 101 | •Finalize and print competition documents |
| 102 | •Get photos of the bot |
| 103 | •Check each item to take for the competition |
| 104 | •Prepare for any competition presentations/ speaking to judges |
| 105 | |
| 106 | '''April''' |
| 107 | •Get organized for regional events |
| 108 | •Check & organize outreach bin |
| 109 | •Plan out who writes which article for the wrap up newsletter |
| 110 | •Review the year: What worked and went well, what failed and went poorly |
| 111 | |
| 112 | '''May''' |
| 113 | •Check for the 8th grade orientation and plan |
| 114 | •Write article for wrap up newsletter |
| 115 | |
| 116 | '''June''' |
| 117 | •Wrap up the wrap up Newsletter |
| 118 | •Begin preparations for the next year |
| 119 | |
| 120 | |
| 121 | **Things to constantly check & update**: |
| 122 | •Website |
| 123 | ◦Newsletter |
| 124 | ◦Errors |
| 125 | •Social media |
| 126 | ◦Photos & videos(Instagram) |
| 127 | ◦Taggings & outreaching |
| 128 | ◦YouTube videos |
| 129 | •Newsletter |
| 130 | •Sponsor relations |
| 131 | ◦Sponsor activities |
| 132 | ◦Email checks |
| 133 | ◦Sponsor $$ & support |
| 134 | •Team relations |
| 135 | ◦1885 |
| 136 | ◦5945 |
| 137 | ◦5979 |
| 138 | ◦?? |
| 139 | •Outreach activities |
| 140 | ◦Authorization to participate |
| 141 | ◦Dates |
| 142 | ◦Volunteers |
| 143 | ◦Materials (robots, brochures, pins, drive station, etc.) |
| 144 | •Photo updates into the Shared Google Drive |
| 145 | •Co-op tasks with other subteams |
| 146 | |
| 147 | |
| 148 | '''Regular Sponsors''' |