Day 1: Kick Off
Build Season
Period of time from Kickoff to Champs
2026 Build Season Schedule
- Kickoff 8 am to 9 pm
- Tuesdays, 3:45 pm - 7:45 pm
- Wednesdays, 3:45 pm - 7:45 pm
- Fridays 3:45 pm to 9 pm (dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)
- Saturdays 9 am to 9 pm (lunch and dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)
- Holiday (non-school days) meetings 9 am to 9 pm (lunch and dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)
Kickoff Prep
- Create Kickoff Google Drive Folder
- Share folder via team website
- Link Game Manual to www.SuperNURDs.com/gamemanual for easy sharing
- Tell students bring laptops/tablets to kickoff
- Tell students to pre-download Game Manual
- Layout team laptops in group locations
- Pre-download Game Manual
Schedule
| Time | Duration | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | 1 hr | Students arrive |
| 9:00 am | 1 hr | Watch Kickoff broadcast |
| 10:00 am | 30 min | Watch Game Animation & Field Videos Take notes |
| 10:30 am | 15 min | Break (Mentors split up manual) |
| 10:45 am | 30 min | Read Game Overview in Groups (make sure technology is working) |
| 11:15 am | 15 min | Unboxing KoP |
| 11:30 am | 30 min | Lunch |
| 12:00 pm | 1 hr | Game Manual Breakdown - Reading |
| 1:00 pm | 1 hr | Game Manual Breakdown - Presenting |
| 2:00 pm | 15 min | Break |
| 2:15 pm | 2 hr | Scoring Method Analysis |
| 4:15 pm | 30 min | Dinner |
| 4:45 pm | 2 hr | Feature Importance List Creation |
| 6:45 pm | 1 hr | Rough Field marking and Run a “robot” doing cycles on field |
| 7:45 pm | 30 min | Robot cycle analysis |
| 8:15 pm | 45 min | Game piece interaction prototyping and Video/part research |
| 9 pm | - | End Meeting Tell everyone to look up similar games and mechanism research, to come with ideas for next meeting |