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Freshman Representative Onboarding

Welcome to Blueprint! We are really excited to welcome you to the team and start working together. We truly believe in our mission and are thrittled you decided to run for freshman rep.

Team Structure

Before we deive in, here's a quick overview of how our executive board (e-board) is structured. Because Blueprint is a very operations-heavy organization, we divide our work into two subteam:

  • Operations Team - Focused on supporting our project teams. They ensure each project team has the resources, guidance, and structure needed to deliver software for our partner organizations
  • Club Team - Focused on teh internal and community side of Blueprint. They handle everything related to club operations - planning events, designing flyers, booking rooms, and keeping our campus presence strong.

Communication

We use discord as our main communication channel. If you have any questions or want to bring up anything with the e-board, please tag us on Discord. We have multiple channels

  • fa25-eboard
    • General channel
  • engineering
    • Infrastructure and Tech Team discussions
  • projects
    • Project Teams discussion
  • design
    • Desing Team concerns, Website re-designs
  • marketing
    • Flyers, announcements, etc
  • operations
    • Documentation and Processes planning
  • recruitment
    • Recruitment related communication
  • onboarding
    • Project Team member onboarding discussion
  • events
    • Events planning
  • budgeting
    • Any finance or budgeting related concern
  • non-technical
    • Our fun, random channel

Please try to categorize your message accordingly.

Meeting Cadence

We have weekly alternating meeting schedule. 

  • Week A
    • Operations Team meets Wednesday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
    • Club Team meets Thursday 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
  • Week B
    • Whole e-board meets Wednesday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This week we are in schedule A. You are required to attend both meetings to meet the whole team. Please let me know if you can't attend either meeting.

Responsibilities as Freshman Rep

WeWe’re wantso excited for you to knowjoin us and start learning the ins and outs of how we managerun Blueprint.Blueprint! As a Freshman Representative, your first step will be to shadow members of the Executive Board (E-Board) to see how everything fits together. Your first task will be to set up 1:1 meetings with each E-Board member. During these chats, take some time to learn about their main responsibilities, what challenges they face, and how their roles contribute to Blueprint’s overall mission.

Operations Team

Club Team

However,In weaddition alsoto wantshadowing, we’d love for you to contribute to the club. You will take on a project forof your own this year — something that can make a lasting impact on the yearorganization. thatSome you think will benefit the organization as a whole. Examplesexamples of previouspast Freshman Rep projects include:

  • Bluprint Grow:

    Blueprint MentornshipGrow: program.A Wementorship areprogram connecting new members with experienced mentors (we’re running it again this yearyear!).

    as well!

  • Onboarding documentationDocumentation: forLast newyear’s members.Freshman As you may know developing software is hard, so our previous freshman representativeRep created an onboarding guide forto help new members to learn more aboutthe technologies our developers use everyday.every Seeday — check it out on our wikiWiki

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