Competition Teams

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No Instruction Manual

You know there isn’t an instruction manual for building an experimental hydrogen car, or for adjusting the suspension for a Formula SAE racer. As a part of the team, you write the book on the subject at Mizzou.

People Resources

Teams are like small businesses in many ways, and can display a range of majors outside of engineering including journalism, art, and business.

Real World Ahead

Getting involved is a whole lot more than padding your resume:

  • Learn by doing— You’ll become a genuinely better engineer by facing the real world on the road, in the water, and up in the skies
  • You’ll become more attractive to employers.
  • In addition you’ll make bonds and develop contacts with your fellow students and interact as a true team.

What to expect

You’ve got what it takes to be a meaningful part of any team, but the first time you attend a meeting, it’s easy to get discouraged by the fact that you’re not immediately selected to be the team’s lead engineer… you may need to stick around for a few meetings before you’re able to substantially participate on a project.

But once you are responsible for getting things done, you’re entering a rewarding journey that will likely demand the sacrifice of some late nights and some spring breaks; but it’s going to be worth it.

So join up, attend some meetings, and make a difference to the team.

Facebook = Racingbook

We’re starting a Facebook contest for the competition teams. Yes, for the usual things: raising awareness, promoting the engineering teams, maybe a little bit of recruiting, that sort of thing.

Why Facebook Pages?

We’re using the website that (almost) everyone logs onto at least once a day anyway. The user base is already there, now we just need to get their eyeballs on your pages.

We’ve already set up the fan pages for each team. You have to get the most number of fans for your team’s page by Nov 13. Here’s your motivation:

Trophy Prizes

But wait, there's more!

All teams that find 50+ fans will receive:

  • 36"x60" Outdoor Banner
  • Cool Mizzou Engineering shwag

All teams that find 100+ fans will also receive:

  • 31"x80" Retractable Banner
  • Cool Mizzou Engineering shwag

So you get fun shwag to display prominently next to your computer monitor, your friends get awareness of the awesome stuff you’ve been doing between classes and hanging out, and the College of Engineering gets some more promotion out there on the interwebs. Everyone wins! (Except for the teams who don’t get enough fans for their pages – but as somebody probably said, all exposure is good exposure.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and you will), is simple:

  1. Promote your team to your friends, classmates, family, and get them to become a fan your fan page.
  2. Keep the chatter going on your team by updating regularly and getting people to comment on your updates. Basically, it’s pointless to just have people friend the page and never look at it again.
Keep the chatter going on your team by updating regularly and getting people to comment on your updates. Basically, it’s pointless to just have people friend the page and never look at it again.We’ll calculate your score using (1) number of fans, and (2) number of comments, wall posts, and likes.

We’ll be updating everyone on their scores periodically until the final deadline.

Obviously a few common sense rules need apply:

  1. No sock puppet accounts, shell scripts or other shenanigans to inflate your scores. And remember, we’re paid to sit here in an office and go over every account to determine that they’re legit, if need be.
  2. Nothing that violates Facebook TOS.