intro
most of the team is very busy rolling into finals. we should’ve started sooner on this and come to a better ranking order weeks ago, lessons for next time, no need to dwell on it. all directors are busy and starting to feel the pressure. In hopes of alleviating this pressure Daniel Puratich is proposing taking point in selling and pushing the comp roster. Note that in times of pressure someone kind of need to make calls to save everyone else time, even if that be the wrong call. In this spirit, here’s my proposed roster. Once directors agree (approval granted early on 2024-04-07) then we will sell this to leads, once leads agree we will sell this to the team. Note this is heavily based on 2024-04-06 Voting Options . I am starting this doc on April 6th in the evening and it may be public eventually (was private before shown to leads). This list is not perfect but we are out of time on this decision unfortunately.
list
Nathan Green
Yuchen Lin
Daniel Puratich
Smile Khatri
Hardy Yu
Emma Chan
Amy Hu
Aidan Bowers
Evan Janakievski
Tong Zhang
Nathaniel
Ishman
justification
Nathan, Hardy, and Yuchen work very well together for ardupilot stuff. Hardy and Yuchen need comp experience, been on the team a while, and Nathan can guide with his knowledge well. Nathan and Yuchen required as well trained advanced license pilots. While Hardy isn’t a pilot he’s a dedicated lead without any comp experience.
Aidan and Nathan are required for trailer driving. The trailer will be very helpful for us at competition because we can bring basically the entire bay.
Smile never been to comp, strongest mech we have available. Same arguement for Evan, strong mech up and coming. We just don’t have space for a second mech. Autonomy needs at least one person. Smile has been on the team for longer than Evan so it makes sense for him to have priority. Smile and Nathan will be only mech focused people at comp which is a risk if significant repairs are needed. Evan is very much a strong pick and it would be extremely beneficially if we could take a ninth person.
Emma will be very helpful for logisitics and photography, no comp experience, very up and coming ops member. no other ops members will be present.
Amy and Tong are both strong picks, Amy has more experience and can pass on knowledge. Photography experience as well. Amy has lots of flight test experience. Tong has some FT experience, but less than Amy hence the lower rating. Autonomy is limited at comp so only one auto member in top eight. While autonomy is important for our growth and points potential, we are limited and Ton agrees Amy is a stronger pick here.
Ishman is a risk due to lack of flight test experience but placed last because extra soldering help will be nice for final slot. If we do not need to fill this final slot than we could.
Nathaniel for extra mech hands as Conall cannot be locked in just yet as co-op is still pending at time decision is needed.
Daniel has comp and EE experience. Worst case soldering grindset. Hopefully helping coordinate the team and calling tough shots through blind overconfidence when needed (ayo kinda like this one, a lil practice, or foreshadowing if you will).