Topic 0.2: Kick Off

Build Season

Period of time from Kickoff to Champs

Mock kick off 9 am to 4:30 pm
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)

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

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	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