Sub-Teams
Business Teams
The Business Teams work on communicating, including developing the website and social media, dealing with marketing and publicity for the team, making videos and taking photos, and developing a business plan.
Administration and Team Management
Team Mentors: Rick Drummer and Mrs. D
Manages the schedule, review meetings, action item list, due dates, mentoring, etc.
Sustainability
Team Leaders: Tanav Ray
Team Mentors: Rick Drummer, Dipa Mukherjee
Planning for team sustainability, continuity, and partnership via the AdamBots Business Plan. We also submit for the Sustainability Award and present at competitions for several awards.
Impact Team
Team Leaders: Aubrey Moore, Anahita Sinha
Team Mentors: Rick Drummer, Dipa Mukherjee
Our job is to create a 10,000 character essay, along with perfecting thirteen 500 character questions and creating a 7 minute creative presentation to submit to the judges at the FIRST competitions.
Website
Team Leaders: Kanishkar Balamurugan, Mark Chernolutskiy,
Team Mentors: Rajeev Bhuvaneswaran, Kristin Nahass
We manage the website for our team by updating information about the team dynamics, competitions, outreach, pictures and resources.
Photo/Video
Team Leaders: Brenden Niu
Team Mentors:Kim Arango, Cheryl Jensen
We capture images and videos for team use. To used on the website, on posters and in communications. We take videos of our matches at competitions for the drive team to review. We are also responsible for making the video for the Impact Team and end of the year wrap up.
Imagery
Team Leaders: Gray Bhuvaneswaran, Kasthuri Molakaluri
Team Mentors: Dipa Mukherjee, Swati Gupta
We create displays, posters, signage for the robot and our pit, and T-shirt design graphics.
Communications
Team Leader: Tvarika Vinothan
Team Mentor: Michelle Pickard
The Communications team covers Facebook, Instagram, X posts and public communications for the AdamBots.
Engineering Teams
Mechanical Team
Team Leaders: Mark Yin, Charlie Hall, Kevin Li, John Nahass, Rudy Seely
Team Mentors: Larry Garstick, Mike Merlo, Joe Priskorn,Glenn Yin, Paul Slaby, Jason Middleton
The AdamBots Build Team is just that; it is the team dedicated to the design and creation of the physical robot. The Mechanical team acts is organized as a pool this year where students and mentors simultaneously focus attention on all aspects of the robot design. Major sub-systems for robot this year are the Chassis, Arm Mechanism, Climbing, and shooter/intake design.
Programming
Team Leaders: Aarush Gota, and Jay Modi
Team Mentors: Pete Rylko, Rajeev Bhuvaneswaran, Krishna Koravadi
The programming team is responsible for designing the code that controls the robot’s movements, including drive controls, autonomous movements, and vision.
Electrical
Team Leaders: Sid Bhat, Vishal Myneni, Jackson Paris, Kat Pickland, Aarya Yalala
Team Mentors: Gary Sochanski, Kevin Price, Scott Paris, Sridhar Yalala, Dean Watson, Joe Priskorn
Responsible for design of electrical and pneumatic circuits required to perform robot function.
CAD
Team Leaders: Matina Green, Jacob Martincic, Peter Milne
Team Mentors: Antonio Torres and Chad Moore
The AdamBots CAD team gives all the physical aspects of our robot numerical precision. Each year we come in with new concept to create digitally. The job of the CAD team is to make a visual representation of ideas prior to building a robot. It’s a lot of fun.
Supply Chain
Team Leader: Tvarika Vinothan
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer
The AdamBots Supply Chain is responsible of keeping track of items and parts that we have and ordering what we need.
Scouting
Team Leader: Eryn Yang
Team Mentor: Kevin Price
The Adambots Scouting Team is a big part of our competitions. They are responsible for scouting other teams and their robots performance. Then compile a list of weakness and strengths of our competitors to use for alliance selection.
Field Build
Team Leader: Luka Super
Team Mentor: Mike Merlo
The field build team constructs a practice game field for the team’s robot. We receive blueprints from FIRST of how we build the game field. Using the blueprints, we put together the field with an assortment of materials, and we use many tools to do so. Usually we take wooden boards, cut them to size with a type of saw, and then put the wood together to plan. Sometimes the field does not take too long to make, so we use our time to help out our team with side projects like extra shelves for supplies or tool boxes.
Safety
Team Leaders: John Nahass
Team Mentor: Rick Drummer, Kristen Nahass
The first aid kit always fully stocked
Not wearing safety glasses? I’m shocked!
Though finding the time has proven rough,
We ran a drill, since we know our stuff
So how does this work?
Click on the organizational chart below to see a visual of how everything fits together.
