President

Owned by Jim Heaney (RIT Student)
Last updated: May 15, 2023 by Wynter M. Petersen (RIT Student)

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

SlackWiki
*These changeovers are to occur AFTER your year's irec competition 

Cycle new leads in and previous leads out of their necessary channels

ChannelNecessary 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

GroupNecessary Roles
Admin
  • President
  • Vice President
  • Director of Operations
Leads

All eboard members and project team leads 

  1. Cycle new leads in and previous leads out of the Team Admin and Operations page 
  2. Add the incoming President & Vice President as editors for the team constitution
  3. Add the incoming President & Vice President as editors for amendments to the team constitution


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