Kickoff Guide

Build Season

Period of time from Kickoff to Champs

Mock kick off 9 am to 4:30 pm
Kickoff 8 am to 9 pm
Mondays, 2:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuesdays, 5 pm - 8:30 pm
Saturdays 9 am to 9 pm (lunch and dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)
Fridays 3:45 pm to 9 pm (dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)
Holiday (non-school days) meetings 9 am to 9 pm (lunch and dinner provided - parent volunteers welcome)

Please come to all meetings that you can, we are a team working together for a common goal
If you cannot attend a meeting (or will be late) please fill out the absent form
Make sure all work assigned to you is complete
If you have to leave before the task is completed or have to miss a meeting please find someone to cover you/take over and notify a mentor
Use meetings as time to ask mentors questions and get feedback
Try to complete individual items between meetings
Keep the shop neat and orderly
Do not play video games on any devices
No yelling unless there is danger or someone is hurt
Back packs in the coding cave
Push in chairs and keep them out of walkway
Clean your area (tools and supplies), leave sheet metal (cut parts) on table
Help to empty trash/recycle when you see it full
Park robots correctly when the day ends/leaving
Throw away water bottles
Shutdown and put away laptops
Make sure you complete your tasks, everyone is depending on you
Avoid blockers! - Make sure stuff is ordered as soon as possible
Think “scrappy” and creative to get stuff done, don’t wait to do stuff
When you leave, you’ll be asked
What you completed? (Posted in Slack, make sure uploaded to GitHub)
Who picked up after you/what’s your plan to get it done
Did you clean your area and put your toolkit and project boxes away
Maintain good grades, school comes first!
Have fun but be professional
Follow shop safety rules

A teaching run of kickoff using a past FRC Game.

Real Year	FRC Season to run Mock Kickoff	Type
2022	2013 - ULTIMATE ASCENT	Shooting
2023	2018 - POWER UP	Pick and Place
2024	2017 - STEAMWORKS	Shooting/Pick and Place
2025	2019 - Destination: Deep Space	Pick and Place

Time	Duration
9:00 am	15 min	Students arrive discuss how holiday break was
9:15 am	45 min	Discuss build season expectations and schedule
10:00 am	30 min	Watch Game Animation & Field Videos Take notes
10:30 am	10 min	Unbox KoP (Put old game pieces in tote and pass around)
10:40 am	45 min	Regroup/Game Manual Breakdown Break into groups read aloud document important items into group’s folder
11:25 am	45 min	Present group findings creating a master list (have group that presents match play and game rules go last)
12:10 pm	50 min	Lunch Break
1:00 pm	1.5 hr	Scoring method Analysis (ranking points vs match points) (point calculations/combinations, look at density, looking at auto vs teleop) (Do RP become match points?)
2:30 pm	30 min	Feature importance List creation (features are ability that our robot has that drive the design) (ex. score high, mid, low, all autonomous)
3:00 pm	30 min	Feature importance list rankings
3:30 pm	1 hr	General Robot Architecture
4:30 pm	30 min	Q&A and debrief
5:00 pm	-	End Mock Kick off

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	1.5 hr	Regroup/Game Manual Breakdown Break into groups read aloud document important items into group’s folder
1:30 pm	1.5 hr	Present group findings creating a master list (have group that presents match play and game rules go last) Each group gets 30 min
3:00 pm	15 min	Break
3:15 pm	2 hr	Scoring method Analysis (ranking points vs match points) (point calculations/combinations, look at density, looking at auto vs teleop) (Do RP become match points?) Consider our robot the only robot one person read one person write include processing time in durations/max scores
5:15 pm	30 min	Dinner
5:45 pm	2 hr	Feature importance List creation (features are ability that our robot has that drive the design) (ex. score high, mid, low, all autonomous)
7:45 pm	15 min	Tell everyone to look up similar games and mechanism research, to come with ideas for Monday
8:00 pm	1 hr	Game piece interaction prototyping and Video/part research
9 pm	-	End Meeting

Just read title of evergreen rules
Each person reads a paragraph aloud and then group decides what is important for the whole team to know

#	Section Name	Group	Mentor
1	Introduction	Read after meeting
2	FIRST Season Overview	Read after meeting
3	Game Sponsor Recognition	Read after meeting
4	Game Overview (~1pg)	Everyone
5	Arena (~30pgs) Skip FMS section Focus on Field Zones Element Names Focus on Game Zone Locations Focus on Important Dimensions	1	Blake
7	Game rules Robots (~10pgs)	1	Blake
8	Game Rules Humans (10pgs)	2	Eli
9	Robot construction (~30pgs) focus on starting config (9.1)	2	Eli
6	Match Play (~10 pgs)	3	Tayler