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
- Maintain and safeguard the team Constitution
- Call for amendments if/when necessary
- Ensure all officers and members are progressing towards the spirit of Launch's mission and acting within the language of the constitution
- Oversee leads and general meetings
- Ensure general and lead meetings have agendas and content to discuss
- Directly support internal leads operations
- Fight for all projects on the team and the overall future goals
- Ensure team moves towards the current timeline goals & actively set future goals for the team
Encourage personal certifications within the team to maintain rocketry focus
- Arbitrate any disagreements within the team
- Support other E-board positions when the workload is heavy
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
- Any team task that has no current owner, by default becomes the responsibility of the President to either complete or delegate
- Update this wiki page as you learn more about how to do this position better
Housekeeping
- Cycle new leads in and previous leads out of their necessary channels
*This changeover is to occur AFTER your year's irec competition
Channel Necessary Roles Admin Fun - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
Leaders All eboard members and project team leads
Currency Corner - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
- Director of Sponsorships
- Treasurer
Events Planning - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
- Secretary
- Director of Social Media
- Treasurer
Alumni - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
- All Launch members who graduated RIT
SHED Neighborhood - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
It is the responsibility of the other SHED clubs to populate this channel with the leadership they need
Maintain the Slack Officer Groups
Channel Necessary Roles Admin - President
- Vice President
- Director of Operations
Leads All eboard members and project team leads
- Update the Launch Calendar with meeting dates/times, events, etc
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
College Support:
- Matt Marshall
- Doreen Edwards
- Venessa Mitchell
RIT Development/Fundraising:
- Renee Burslem
- Matthew Berry
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
- Difficult to attend due to needing lake to freeze over
- Better for small groups/individuals rather than a full Launch showing
Presidents:
Current President
- Jayse Petersen
Past Presidents
- James May
- Matt Ryan