Leaders

Team President

Areli Venegas 

  • Oversees all team activities to assure alignment with team goals.

  • Conducts leadership/team meetings

  • Collaborates with leaders and mentors to plan agendas for team

  • Serves as the “face of the team” with school officials, the community, FIRST, the media, and other teams

  • After final competition, assists in team reform and leadership selection for the following year

Competition & Operations Director

Jacob Nava & Areli Venegas

  • Responsible for the quality of all parts coming out of the machine shop and training for all members.

  • Oversees all shop activities to assure alignment with team goals.

  • They are to make sure all parts are labeled and bagged.

  • Responsible for the quality and progress of all assemblies in Team 1323.

  • They are to make sure all parts are quickly processed and assembled onto the project at hand.

Technical Director

Ryan Lorance & Miguel Vargas

  • Oversees all shop and lab activity to assure alignment with team goals

  • Collaborates with leaders and mentors to plan agendas for team

  • Ensures students have passed safety tests for all machines

  • Ensures students are trained to use machines

  • Ensures all parts coming out of the shop are quality and ready for assembly or powder coating

Programming & Controls Director

Harnoor Hans

  • Oversees all projects within programming team

  • Ensures team software is up to date

Media & Submission Director

Areli Venegas

  • Oversees all Social Media and Presentations to assure alignment with team goals

  • Collaborates with leaders and mentors to plan activities and Outreach events for team

  • Works with Communications Director to assure a strong standing in both traditional and social media

  • Ensures blog and website are both consistently updated with accurate information that is relevant to the image and current goals of the team

  • Ensures there are quality photos and video of every event we attend

  • Ensures all media is stored properly on Google Drive

  • Ensures presentable/useful match videos are taken and prepped for driver audience after every match

  • Aids in efforts to promote team within our district and community

  • Ensures all media that is posted publicly under team social media is presentable, appropriate, and is consistent with team goals and team image.

  • Ensures any media is pushed up to Communications for final inspection before its release

Finance Directors

Matthew Garcia & Areli Venegas

  • Responsible for the bookkeeping of all team finances each year.

  • Responsible for all sponsor related activities, such as thanking the sponsors, reaching out to new sponsors, and keeping track of all sponsor information.

  • In charge of the CAW that must be turned in for the robot.