Our goal is to ensure that our engineering club remains sustainable, inclusive, and that it will continuously improve beyond a single season. We focus on long-term growth by developing members’ skills and strengthening our presence within our school community.
Team Development & Knowledge Transfer
To make sure that future teams will not have to start new seasons from scratch, we aim to maintain clear documentation of designs, code, and lessons learned to support future teams, as well as involve younger members directly in building, programming, and testing to ensure hands-on learning. We also encourage mentorship within the team by pairing more experienced members with newer students, which also strengthens collaboration within the club.
Recruitment & Growth
Our plan is to continue hosting school-wide demonstrations and outreach events to attract new members, as most of our team is made up of seniors at the moment. This involves using visible projects and competition footage to spark interest in engineering and robotics, and lowering the barrier of entry by continuing to welcome students with no prior experience, providing them with structured learning sessions.
Education & Skill Building
For the next season, we plan to organize regular club meetings focused on teaching core engineering, programming, and design principles, and introduce CAD, manufacturing, and software concepts early on for members to build strong technical foundations. With this, we aim to help more team members emphasize design and problem-solving over simply building a robot.
Budgeting & Continuity
Currently, our budget is mostly provided by our school with some contribution from parents. While this does cover our needs, we feel that it is very important to have more diverse funding to support a bigger team, multiple robot experiments, and upcoming FTC hardware platform upgrades. We plan to leverage our success this season to attract more sponsors and have already secured one commercial company to cover our FIRST Championship travel expenses.