Day 1- Welcome!

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Greetings Aquanauts!

Welcome to the Gunn ROV Challenge Blog! This is your one-stop-shop to find everything you need to complete the ROV project. Each day when you come in, you should first come read the latest post to find out important updates, expectations, and deadlines. This is also a great resource to find out what you missed on a day you were absent.

Here's what I need you to do to begin the project:

1. Meet up with your team and come up with a marine-themed team name.
2. Assign roles to each team member:
• Pick a person to be the team lead (See team lead duties below)
• Pick a person to be the blog guru (See blog guru duties below)
• Pick a person to be the equipment manager (See manager duties below)
• Pick a person to be the team photographer (See photographer duties below).
3. Complete the "About Us" using the directions on the tab of the same name
4. Complete the "What is an ROV" and "The Challenge" pages using the directions on the tab of the same name 

Note: For steps 3 and 4, blog guru will set up these tabs. While they work on this, everyone else should be reading the directions, doing research, and compiling research into a shared Google Doc until the blog is up and running!

• At this point I will be under the assumption you are familiar with the basic parts of the ROV and are ready for a brief team meeting where each team member will help explain what they have learned about the basic parts of an ROV. I will interview your team about the following:

• What is an ROV (you and ALL of your teammates should be able to explain the parts)
• Who is going to do which part of the building process 

• Assuming you "pass" this interview, you will be given materials to being building your ROV! Please note that before using ANY tools more complicated than our tape dispenser, you are required to watch safety training videos and follow all safety guidelines. Failure to do so will result in you NOT being allowed to work on the ROV on the day of the violation and that will be time you are required to make up! Remember....Safety first

Please feel free to ask me questions at any time during this process. Be safe! Be Brave! Have fun!

Mrs. S

Team Lead: Reports directly to me when I request team updates. Should be familiar with progress of each group member. If a group member is struggling with their task, team lead should help directly or find me for assistance. If a team member is not on task or on schedule to finish, team lead is in charge of helping them get back on task or reporting issues directly to me. Team lead should also be ready to help absent folks catch up on where team is at. Team lead needs to be reliable, patient, and a true team player who helps teammates do their best work. A team lead is NOT someone who tries do do all of the work by themselves!

Blog Guru: Blog guru is in charge of getting the team blog up and running and then adding all teammates to the blog as "admin" so that they can edit it too. You will watch a video to help you learn how to use blogger.com and then be the resource for your team when they need help adding pages and posts. The guru does NOT have to come up with all of the content on the blog. That is everyone's job! You are just the person who helps everyone else be successful in posting to it in the right place. If something is set up wrong, I will ask you to fix it! A lesson we learned the hard way our first time: it is good to have a google doc where people keep all text as they are working so that if the blog acts up, they don't lose all of their hard work. Give everyone access to this doc and have them first put stuff there and then copy and paste it to the blog once you are ready! Here's a video that shows you how to get started

Equipment Manager: There's a lot of parts to the ROV...like seriously...A LOT. Your job will be to make sure that you keep all of your team's stuff in one centralized and labeled location. At the end of each period, you should check to make sure nothing is left out. If you lose something, I can't promise I have an extra. You will be out of luck! You will also be getting some sensitive materials like an underwater camera. It's up to you to keep things charged and safely stored until you are ready to use them. I strongly suggest you use the checklist in each kit to make sure you have all of the parts and then once your ROV is close to completion, put together a final checklist of what stuff you need to take overtime we head to the pool. Imagine showing up to the pool without an underwater camera....and no, you can't just go back and get it. Ain't nobody got time for that!

Team Photographer: A picture is worth 1000 words! Take some good ones of your teammates (and yourself) as you design, test, build, etc. Remember...there are extra points to be earned for blogs that stand out as creative, informative, and just plain fun! Note: If you or your teammates don't want your face recognizable on the blog, take shots that avoid  it! This won't be held against you.