The President is the head of the RIT Launch Initiative and oversees all team operations and functions. Focused on the outward-facing tasks, and keeping the team moving in the right direction.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and provide leadership for entire team operations

  • Oversee leads and general meetings
  • Ensure general and lead meetings have agendas and content to discuss
  • Arbitrate any disagreements within the team 

• Communicate with launch sites; URRG, LWHR, ESRA, Spaceport America

• Help communicate with team advisor on team operations

  • Help attract potential advisors for the teams
  • Support finding internal resources for the team to use

• Directly support internal Leads operations

• Any team task that has no current owner, by default becomes the responsibility of the President to either complete or delegate

Requirements:

• Held a lead position on the Launch Initiative for at least 2 semesters

• No co-op in the next fall or spring

• Preferably not a last-year student
• This is an elected position

Knowledge for Supporting Work of the Team:

Team Advisor:

• Mike Buffalin IV

Launch Advisory Board:

• Mike Buffalin IV
• John Wellin
• Bob Carter
• Bernard Fischer
• Matthew Marshall
• Dr. Scott Williams

College Support:

• Matt Marshall
• Doreen Edwards
• Venessa Mitchell

RIT Development/Fundraising:

• Renee Burslem 

Rocket Launch Sites:

• URRG:
  • Current contact: Larry Weibert (President of URRG)
  • Home launch site
  • Good relationship
• MARS:
  • Current contact: None
  • No relationship, have never attended as a team
• LWHPR:
  • Current contact: Anthony Milano
  • Attend annually (Lake Launch!)

Presidents

Current President 

• James May

Past Presidents

• Matt Ryan