NEW Member information By: Courtney Murray

2017-2018 game

Club Activities How to participate in the club 1. Join a Group and help build, design, and program a robot 2. Become a Group team Captain 3.Become a captain of the VEX-U Ambassadors team 4. Become a VEX-U Ambassador 5. Become a Captain/Member of the VEX-U Practice Field Team 6. Become a Captain/Member of the VEX-U Local High school Competitions Team 7. Become a Captain/Member of the VEX-U Local Colligate competitions Team 8. Become a Captain/ Member of the sponsorship team

What is a VEX-U Ambassador? As a VEX-U Ambassador your job would be to visit various schools with VEX teams in the area and Mentor students. Mentoring duties being, help students come up with design ideas, Help students with programming, Provide an extra hand to students who need help building, Advise students about Their Ideas during the Building process As a Ambassador team Captain your job would be to, gather a list of teams for the St. Cloud and surrounding areas, Contact that school and ask if they would like to receive Mentors, Schedule and set up meetings with those teams. Benefits of becoming an Ambassador or an Ambassador Team Captain: Would have the opportunity to receive a letter of recommendation for future use, Position and participation would go on your college Transcript, Form bonds with Students on various teams, Have the potential opportunity to travel with those teams to competitions.

What is the VEX-U Practice Field Team? As a member of the Practice Field Team you would be providing Local High school teams in the St. Cloud and Surrounding area a place to Practice on a regulation sized field. Your duties would be to oversee Teams as they use the Practice area, Clean up the lab after it is finished being used. As a Practice Field Captain your job would be to, Schedule schools to use the practice field, Oversee that we have someone in the lab when it is in use by Teams. Benefits of Becoming a Practice Field Team member: Would have the opportunity to receive a letter of recommendation for future use, Position and participation would go on your college Transcript

What is the Local High school competitions team? As a member of the Local competitions team your job would be to, Travel to a competition in the St. Cloud and surrounding area and help Run the Competition area that we would donate for use that day. Duties for this job being, (Refereeing the matches, Scoring games, Helping students connect to the competition tower, Resetting the Field for the next game) As a Local Competitions team captain your job would be to, Look at the REC foundation website to see what schools are hosting competitions, Call schools to ask if they would like to use our field for their competition, Schedule Team members to participate at the event chosen. Benefits of Becoming a Local High School Competitions Team Member: Would have the opportunity to receive a letter of recommendation for future use, Position and participation would go on your college Transcript.

What is the VEX-U Local Colligate Competition team? As a member of the Colligate Competition Team Your job is to Set up and Run a college level competition here at ST. Cloud STATE UNIVERSITY. Duties include, Setting up competition fields, running fields for competition (refereeing, scoring, setting up the field) Taking down fields and cleaning up competition area, Running food stand, Cleaning up Pit area , Gathering Teams Paper Work, Checking in Teams. As a Team Captain your job is to: Oversee members duties, get approval from college to have the event, work with Campus Involvement for food vendors, schedule place for event, Post event on REC Foundation, Keep count of how many Teams to expect for the event. Benefits of Joining VEX-U College competition team: Would have the opportunity to receive a letter of recommendation for future use, Position and participation would go on your college Transcript,

What is the VEX-U Sponsorship Team? As a member of the VEX-U Sponsorship team your Job would be to go out to local businesses in the St. Cloud area and convince them as to why they should donate to the club and what the benefits would be if they did. As a Team captain your job would be to delegate funds Gathered to the Club Treasure. As well as oversee members on the team. Benefits of Joining the Sponsorship team: Would have the opportunity to receive a letter of recommendation for future use, Position and participation would go on your college Transcript, As well as form new relationships with the local businesses in the St. Cloud Area.

For more information https://www.roboticseducation.org/ http://www.dreamitdoitmn.com/vex-robotics-competitions/ https://www.vexrobotics.com/

What makes a good group? A good group consists of people who cooperate well with one another. They listen to all ideas with an open mind Respect other group members ideas and thoughts. Are considerate of each others roles in the group