Business Teams

Accounting
Running the Engineering Academy involves plenty of money changing hands, and the Accounting team manages all of these expenses. They keep all of the business and engineering teams on budget and record all spending and donations.

Admissions
As the Engineering Academy grows, our admission process becomes more and more complicated. The Admissions team is responsible for organizing the application and interview process for prospective Engineering Academy students from the local junior high schools.

Apparel
The Apparel team determines which items students and the general public are willing to buy, researches their availability, and orders the items based on wholesale prices and popularity. In the case of the robotics jumpsuits, they also attach each sponsor patch to all 32 of them.

Awards
Part of the FIRST Robotics competitions is the much-anticipated awards cerimony. Our Awards team organizes our submissions for these awards, including the website award and Chairman's award.

Events
To help Engineering Academy students grow closer to each other and the community, we turn to our Events team. They organize everything from parent nights to robotics dinners, and also include the Academy in local events, such as the California Lemon Festival in Goleta. 

Grant Writing
Much of the money used to run the Engineering Academy comes from grants, such as the three-million-dollar grant that allowed for the construction of the Elings Center for Engineering Education. The Grant Writing team writes out and applies for these grants, bringing in a lot of funding for the Academy. 

Graphics
The Graphics team creates most of the digital graphics and designs related to Team 1717, including banners and headers. Their designs  play a large role in creating and sustaining Team 1717's identity within Dos Pueblos High School and the local community.

Historian
Historians document the entire robotics timeline, from business teams to events to building. They take pictures, record film, and work with many other business teams to create up-to-date documentation of the Engineering Academy. 

Human Resources:Business and Engineering
To keep track of the various business and engineering teams, the HR members work to organize the teams and define their responsibilities. 

Internship Coordinator
One goal of the Engineering Academy is to help students become prepared for entering the workforce. Our Internship Coordinators work with local businesses and Academy Juniors and Seniors to find internships that match individual students' interests. 

IT/Website
The IT team manages all aspects of the program dependent on computers that are not the responsibility of other groups. They establish and maintain all online robotics-related programs, including the Engineering Academy website. 

Presentations and Sponsor Relations
Throughout the year, the Academy demonstrates their robots and education design through presentations. The presentations team is in charge of setting up, rehearsing, organizing, and carrying out all of these presentations. In addition to exhibiting our robots, presentations also give us a change to show our sponsors where their time and resources are going.

Press Relations
As the Engineering Academy grows, we aim to become more well-known in our community. Public Relations helps us achieve this by communicating with outside companies and the general public. Their responsibilities include managing presentation schedules, interacting with sponsors, and releasing information to the media.

Service Learning
Another goal of the Engineering Academy is to spread our influence throughout our community. The Service Learning team members both tutor AVID students at local Junior Highs and mentor elementary students who are participating in the FIRST Lego League competitions. 

Travel
During the competitions, our Travel team organizes almost everything. They are in charge of getting 50 students and mentors transportation, hotels and food for each competition. They are also responsible for the robotics fan bus, which brings underclassmen Academy members as well as other Dos Pueblos students to the regional competitions.