Not Just Engineering

While engineering subteam members deal with the feat of building the robot, members of the fourth robotics subteam manage a part of the funds, take care of public relations, and organize a kickoff breakfast for other robotics teams every year.

“[The kickoff breakfast] is an annual event where we […] provide breakfast for the other teams around this area that come together to see this game,” Operational subteam president Matthew Cheng (10) said. He stated that the team courts donors, such as IHOP, to give the funds for the meal.

Last year, the operations subteam won the First Entrepreneurship award for their business plan at the Central Valley competition. According to Matthew, members of the operations team do not often participate in shop work, instead focusing on managing the team’s backend.

“We’re the management section. We focus a lot on marketing and PR and the image of the team, but we also try to have team bonding events. We coordinate a lot of things with the team so that things are more cohesive,” Matthew said.