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, MARS
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

Slack

Wiki

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

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

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

Group	Necessary Roles
Admin	President Vice President Director of Operations
Leads	All eboard members and project team leads

Cycle new leads in and previous leads out of the Team Admin and Operations page
Add the incoming President & Vice President as editors for the team constitution
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
No other major extracurricular responsibilities for the leadership term
- Example: Officer in another student organization
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

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

Presidents:

Current President

Louis Fleisher

Past Presidents

Wynter Petersen
James May
Matt Ryan

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