ROOKIE TEAMS10 STEPS FOR SUCCESSOCTOBER 2013

AGENDA

•Welcome

•The FIRST Culture

•10 Step Process

•Q&A

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF FIRST

• www.firstroboticscanada.org

• www.usfirst.org

• www.chiefdelphi.com

10 STEPS• Step 1 : Marketing and Registration

• Step 2 : Organization and Timeline

• Step 3 : Team Setup

• Step 4 : Preseason Activities

• Step 5 : Build Season Activities

• Step 6 : Competitions

• Step 7 : Post Season Activities

• Step 8 : Recognition and Reward

• Step 9 : Closing the Year

• Step 10: Re-Start Planning for new year

MARKETING• Grade 9 Night

• Info session

• Synervoice

• Announcements

• Class visitsREGISTRATION• Process for

application

• Registration Application forms

• Deadline and Fees

STEP 1 : MARKETING AND REGISTRATION

Go to usfirst.org > Calendar

ORGANIZATION• 2-3 Professional Teachers or Engineers/2-3

Additional Adults

• 15-25-? Students. Sponsors (Financial/expertise)

• A meeting place, Tools, Time, Mentor team

• Sub teams and leadsTIMELINE• Listing of all your key deliverables, milestones

• Pre-season• Build season• Post season

STEP 2 : ORGANIZATION AND TIMELINE

Students

School

Parents

IndustryPartnersMentors

Support structure

Mechanical

Student Lead

Mentor

Teacher

Design

Student Lead

Mentor

Teacher

Programming

Student Lead

Mentor

Teacher

Electrical

Student Lead

Mentor

Teacher

Management

Student Lead

Mentor

Teacher

SAMPLE TEAM STRUCTURENOTE: EACH GROUP HAS THREE COMPONENTS FOR SUCCESS

Program ManagementLead Student/Teacher/Mentor

Feb 18Jan 4 Build Season

Stop/SHIP Date

•Kick Off - Ontario Science Centre•Inventory of Kit /Pick up KIT•Mentors Meeting•Quick Build Session

Apr

BASIC ROOKIE TEAM TIMELINE

Worlds St. Louis

Pre/Build Season & Competitions Timeline

May 7

Planning Weeks

Year End Celebration

New Season Planning

May Jun

Summer SchedulePlanning

2011/12Gr.

8/9/10/11/12Team

Selection Complete

Oct

2011-12TEAM ORIENTATION

Program Awareness and Rebuilding

Sep

Year in Review

and Year Ahead

Planning

Oct

FRC Symposium

*Design•Build•Program•Test•Practice•Practice•Practice

COMPETITIONS• GTRW February 28-2• UOIT March 6-8• Waterloo March 20-22• Montreal March 20-22• North Bay March 27-29• Windsor April 3-5• Calgary April 3-5

Sept to Dec

*Planning

*Sponsorship

*Mentor Team Alignment

*Workshops

*Administration

*Community Outreach

*Prepare for BuildTeam registrationTournament Registration

Sept – Nov

TEACHER/MENTOR ACTIONSTUDENT ACTION• Review Team Guidelines

• Register on STIMS

• Team Name/Color/Logo

• Attend Team Orientation

• Visit US FIRST

• Visit FIRST Canada

• Visit CHIEF DELPHI

• Know the timelines/deliverables

• Everyone on the team to review game manual with focus on rules

• Register on TIMS *(registering your team and getting a team number)**

• Register for competition ***

• Team Name/Colors/Logos

• Set up Parent Night

• Create a budget

• Create Team Guidelines (code of conduct)

*** possibly done already

STEP 3 : TEAM SETUP

TIPS• Stay organized

• Track milestones and deadlines

• Develop Committed members

• Communicate

• Have Fun!

STEP 4 : PRE-SEASON ACTIVITIESREMEMBER – You are only a

ROOKIE ONCE!!!

• Keep in touch with your mentor teams, attend workshops,

• Community events, fundraising, awareness in/out of school, business plan, marketing initiatives

• PIT design, theme, considerations

• Review of the Awards you are eligible to win

• Create spirit items

• Plan for game team (3+1 students/adult) driver, tool, human, coach

• Build your robot cart

• Look at last years game

- Rookie Inspiration (Judges)

This award celebrates a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers both within their school, as well as in their community.

- Highest Rookie Seed Award (Robot Performance)

This award celebrates the highest-seeded rookie team at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds.

- Dean’s List

- Rookie All Star (Judges)

This award celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST: to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.

- Woodie Flowers

ROOKIE AWARDS

**** awards that require a submission

WEEK 5 WEEK 6WEEK 3WEEK 1

• Kick Off 8:30 – 11:30 am

• Attend Quick Build Session

• Go home - Review rules

• Mentors Meeting • Brainstorming• Design Freeze• Established robot

design• Mobility system

frozen• General ideas for

all mechanisms• Mechanism

Prototyping • Build Drive

System

Comments:• Frozen means no

more changes!!

• Mechanism Build Programmers Begin Coding

• Drive system complete

• Have two students lead shipping planning – read rules well in advance of ship day

• Begin Autonomous Testing

Comments:• Most FIRST

autonomous only involves the chassis

• Mechanism Integration

Comments:• Wiring is not a

quick job

Feb 18

• Robot Done • Testing &

Perfecting • Driver Training

Comments:• Weight Reduction• “Practiced drivers

make bad robots win, & unpracticed drivers make good robots lose

SHIPPING DATE

WEEK 2 WEEK 4

exampleSTEP 5 : BUILD SEASON ACTIVITIES

• Driver Training• Practice• Practice• Practice

STEP 6 : COMPETITIONS

• Feb 22 – Competitions begin. • Toronto GTR-W February 28-2• Toronto GTR-E March 6-8• Waterloo March 20-22• Montreal March 20-22• North Bay March 27-29• Windsor April 3-5• Calgary April 3-5

• April – Teams convene for the FIRST Championship

• Ensure each person/subgroup has tasks at competitions

• PIT schedule and lead

• Spirit Lead

STEP 7 : POST SEASON

• Debrief Session of the year

• Surface Gaps/strengths• Final checks

• Ensure all documentation is stored at a central accessible area

• Photos/video repository• Listing of all

accomplishments• Review final budget

STEP 8 : REWARD AND RECOGNITION

• Awards/celebration event

• Sponsorship recognition

STEP 9 : CLOSING THE YEAR

•Post the annual report of the year

• Identify critical timelines, tasks to start new year

STEP 10 : RE-START THE NEW YEAR

• Choose new Lead Students

• Identify critical steps/milestones

• Continue to build sponsorships

OTHER AWARDS

**** awards that require a submission

- Team Spirit Award sponsored by Chrysler

- Imagery Award- Creativity Award Sponsored by

Xerox- Gracious Professionalism™

Award - FIRST Future Innovator Award - Industrial Design Award- Industrial Safety Award - Innovation in Control Award - Judges Award- ****Website Award- ****Animation Award- **** Excellence in Design

Award,

MORE YOU CAN DO…..

- Sponsorship and Fundraising

- Community Outreach- Parent Involvement

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER!

* FRC BLOGS, FIRST ROBOTICS CANADA WEBSITE

* WATCH TRAINING WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE*

* JAN 4TH, QUICK BUILD SESSIONTOURNAMENTS REGISTRATION

Q&A

Contact:ARTI JAVERI

artijaveri@hotmail.com