Project Maverick

Project Maverick, often shortened as P-Mav, was a registered club where IPoly students could pitch their personal project ideas and assemble a team from the audience to help complete it. Despite the founder's efforts to continue the club into the 2018-19 school year, the club is likely going to be disbanded by the second semester of the 2018 school year. Elsa Rivera is the staff adviser.

History and Etymology
Project Maverick was conceived by Yoshi Askharoun in September 2017. The club form was submitted on December 5th, 2017. Even before its approval on December 8th, 2017, infrastructure had been added to various projects, including this wiki or the IPolynesian Discord.

Originally, the club was called Indie Club, which referenced the new trend of Independent Games, or Indie Games. In November of 2017, though, Joe Askharoun suggested the name be changed to Project Maverick, a "maverick" being someone with an independent mindset or forward thinker. The first staff adviser for P-Mav was Trent Speier.

The club was officially disbanded in Spring 2018, as only three members shown up to all four of the first semester's meetings. The last official meeting was in mid-September of 2018.

Purpose
To provide an open environment for expanding students' personal portfolios by providing a platform for building teams and acquiring resources.

The best one-word description of Project Maverick is "crowdsourcing". Creators and Mavericks can pitch any ideas they need help with, as long as the idea follows the rules outlined in P-Mav's official Policies. Once an idea is pitched, members of the audience can volunteer to help. Volunteers don't always have to actively move the project along; volunteers can donate to the project or even just spread the word. For example, if a student wanted to make an animated film, they could pitch it in P-Mav and find others to help with character design, animation, and music.

It is important to note that P-Mav, as an entity, does not actually create any projects. It is only a platform for getting help with ideas. Those that are working on a certain project have to meet on their own, as P-Mav does not manage them. It is also important to mention that projects that ask for funding must be approved by PTSA if that is where the funds are coming from.

Interaction
Project Maverick is intended to be a very open club, with no strong hierarchy and the ability to outsource jobs (i.e. an idea needs photographers, Project Maverick reaches out to Photography Club). This allows Project Maverick to help students of nearly every club and group in IPoly no matter their "official' status in the club.

Structure
See P-Mav's Policies for more details.

Mavericks
Mavericks are the official leaders of the club. They run meetings, log minutes, and handle relations with ASB, PTSA, and other organizations. Mavericks are selected once a year via an IRV poll.

Creators
Creators are meant to be the bulk of the club's participants. Not only can they join projects, but they can pitch and create them. Members become Creators after they attend meetings from at least two weeks in a row. This is so that Creators know how Project Mavericks works before doing anything. Note that Creators should not go directly to other organizations for funding. For the first two weeks of meetings for the year, anyone that shows up to the meetings is automatically a Creator instead of a Member.

Members
Members are people who have not attended a meeting from the week prior. They can only join projects, but not pitch them. This means that they can offer help to other projects but cannot create their own yet. Members cannot participate in club-wide polls.