1511 works on building leadership throughout the team, year round. All students are encouraged to take leadership roles at different times through the year. Here are the major ways 1511 promotes Leadership!
The leadership bootcamp is a full day training held over the summer or in the fall. It is designed to be helpful to both students and mentors and is based on several very popular leadership books. There are lots of workshops and activities to get participants working on their new skills immediately. This has been a very valuable training for our student leaders!
Leadership Bootcamp Presentation
Leadership Bootcamp Workbook
Leadership Bootcamp Schedule
Seven Habits Weekly Schedule (Publisher Version)
Our Lead Mentor first gave this camp in 2006, she also presented "How to run a Leadership Bootcamp" at the Championship Conferences for two years, as well as a seminar on "Motivation". The documents are linked here.
How to Run a Leadership Bootcamp
Motivating Yourself and Others
Rolling Thunder's Leadership process currently is made of 3 main sections.
To manage the various sections of building a robot, our team is divided into subteams by subject. To keep those subteams organized, a student is appointed leader of that subteam, with the responsibilites of keeping that subteam's wiki page up to date, taking attendance, keeping meeting notes, and writing task notes among other responsibilities.
To keep student initiative high, students are encouraged to lead events such as demos, blood drives, and Intervol. They set up times, dates, and organize all the details associated with creating and running an event.
Crystal
Senior, 4th year, Team Captain
This is Crystal's third year on leadership. Crystal is a big part of the team
communication as she sends out the weekly team email! She also works with the
electrical and corporate subteam to get the word of FIRST out! She's known as
one of the "small fearless" leaders, and you can always hear her from the stands
wh en she cheers! Her favorite thing to do at robotics is to solder, and she's
always willing to give a helping hand if you need her! She was also a 2010 Dean's
List Finalist at the Boston regional.

Mike
Senior, 3rd year, School Relations & Treasurer
This is Mike's second year on leadership. For the past two
years, he has served as the team's Safety Captain, bringing
us close to winning the Safety Award at most of our
competitions. Although we aren't at competition right now,
Mike still makes sure everyone is being safe. He is part of the
electrical subteam and his goal is to be on every subteam
and attend everything the team does. He hopes to attend MIT
to major in electrical, computer and possibly mechanical
engineering!!

Kyle
Junior, 3rd year, Team Activities & Meetings Coordinator
This is Kyle's second year on leadership. He has been on the mechanical
and field building subteams. He also helps the team with our community
service endeavors such as fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
He hopes to attend the Culinary Institute of America in New York City to
become a chef!
Matthieu
Junior, 3rd year, Public Relations & FLL Coordinator
Matthieu is now in his third year on leadership. He has been
on the electrical, corporate, webpage, and FLL subteams.
He joined robotics because of a love for engineering. He
likes the challenge building robots provide. Outside of
robotics, he plays clarinet in the PHS Wind Ensemble and
Solo Fest, working on his Eagle Scout, and an avid
computer gamer. He loves airplanes and hopes to become
an aerospace engineer.

Jason
Junior, 2nd year, Communications
This is Jason’s second year on the leadership team. He is enjoying the
leadership team because he likes to see plans that he helped design get
implemented and become successful. He is currently on the Field/Crate
build season sub-team and is enjoying it a lot. He built this year's field
twice! Once for Rally and a second time for our 5-day demo at the
Monroe County Fair! He recently obtained the rank of Eagle Scout.
His favorite leadership quote is "Do not follow where the path may
lead, Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
-Harold R.McAlindon.
Sophomore, 2nd year, Media Specialist & New Student Coordinator
This is Jacob's first year on leadership. He enjoys playing soccer when he's not busy helping build robots.

Alex
Sophomore, 2nd year, Treasurer
This is Alex's first year on leadership. Last year, he was on the corporate subteam. He was also our back-up primary driver for competition! He loves to juggle anything and everything from knives (with dull blades - safety first!) to rubber chickens. He is also a Boy Scout and is an Assistant Senior Patrol Leader.


Welcome to the digital home of Rolling Thunder, FIRST Robotics team 1511. The team is from Penfield High School in Penfield, New York and mainly sponsored by Harris Corp. To find out more about the team and FIRST, please visit the Who We Are page.
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