Kickoff Guide

Build Season

Period of time from Kickoff to Champs

Kickoff Starts 8 am to 7:30 pm
Mock kick off 9 am to 2:45 pm (meeting ends at 5 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)
Tuesdays, Thursday 3:45 pm - 7:30 pm
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
Have fun but be professional
Follow shop safety rules
Back packs in the coding cave
Maintain good grades, school comes first!

A teaching run of kickoff using a past FRC Game.

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	15 min	Unbox KoP (Put old game pieces in tote and pass around)
10:40 am	1 hr	Regroup/Game Manual Breakdown Break into groups read aloud document important items into group’s folder
11:40 am	1 hr	Present group findings creating a master list (have group that presents match play and game rules go last)
12:40 pm	50 min	Lunch Break
1:30 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?)
3:00 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)
3:30 pm	30 min	Feature importance list rankings
4:00 pm	30 min	Show Real Robot Examples
4:30 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
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
6	Match Play (~10 pgs)	2
7	Game rules Robots (~10pgs)	2
8	Game Rules Humans (10pgs)	3
9	Robot construction (~30pgs) focus on starting config (9.1)	3