Topic 0.1: Mock Kickoff

TODO: UPDATE WITH LINKS TO PAGES

A teaching run of kickoff using a past FRC Game.

Mock Prep

Archived Game Manuals

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
2026 2022 - RAPID REACT Shooting
  1. Create Mock Kickoff Google Drive Folder
  2. Share folder via team website
  3. Assign people to past FRC Game Manual Sections
  4. Link Game Manual to www.SuperNURDs.com/mockmanual for easy sharing
  5. Layout team laptops in group locations
  6. Pre-download Game Manual

Saturday Mock Schedule

Time Duration
9:00 am 15 min Students arrive
discuss how holiday break was
9:15 am 10 min Show Videos:
SuperNURDs 10 Year Anniversary
Robowranglers: Fail Again
9:25 am 1.5 hr Discuss build season expectations and schedule
10:45 am 30 min Watch Game Animation & Field Videos
Take notes
11:15 am 10 min Unbox KoP (Put old game pieces in tote and pass around)
11:25 am 45 min Game Manual Breakdown - Reading
12:10 pm 50 min Lunch Break (spill over)
1:00 pm 50 min Game Manual Breakdown - Presenting
2:00 pm 1 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?)
3:00 pm 1.5 hr Feature importance List creation
(features are ability that our robot has that drive the design)
(ex. score high, mid, low, all autonomous)
4:30 pm 15 min Q&A and debrief
4:45 pm 45 min Feature importance list rankings (Monday Practice)
5:30 pm 15 min Game piece interaction prototyping and Video/part research
5:45 pm 1 hr General Robot Architecture (Monday Practice)
6:45 pm - End Mock Kick off ****

Friday Mock Schedule

Time Duration
3:45 pm 5 min Show Videos:
Robowranglers: Fail Again
3:50 pm 10 min Discuss build season expectations and schedule
4:00 pm 30 min Watch Game Animation & Field Videos
Take notes
4:30 pm 10 min Unbox KoP (Put old game pieces in tote and pass around)
4:40 pm 50 min Game Manual Breakdown - Reading
5:30 pm 30 min Dinner Break (spill over)
6:00 pm 50 min Game Manual Breakdown - Presenting
6:50 pm 1 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?)
7:50 pm 1 hr Feature importance List creation
(features are ability that our robot has that drive the design)
(ex. score high, mid, low, all autonomous)
8:50 pm 10 min Q&A and debrief