Helpful Documents

Below are documents created specifically for the FIRST community to share Technical Training, to show how we run different aspects of our team, and what you can possibly take away from our strategies.

• Yearly Summary of FIRST Game Rules
  One of our mentors, Rick Drummer, creates a summary of Game rules for the new FIRST Season. This page contains summaries for all FIRST games from 2012 to the present year.
• Training presentations covering aspects of design choices for key robot sub-systems
  One of our mentors, John Savage, has created technical training summaries useful for robot design.
• Keys To Long Term Success
  One of our mentors, Rick Drummer, created this presentation in response to questions about how to sustain a team for long term success.
• Robot Pre-match Inspection Sheet
  A generic robot pre-match inspection sheet to make sure your robot is ready to go before each match.  We used a version of this during our successful 2009 season.
• Scouting Builds Winning Alliances and Strategies
  One of our mentors, Rick Drummer, has handled our scouting for many years now.  This is a paper he put together to help our Scouting team.
• Photo/Video Camera Tutorial
  One of our mentors, John Savage, created a PowerPoint as a guide for future photographers to refer to when applying their skills.
• Programming Requirements
  One of our mentors, James Micklas, created a PowerePoint a guide for future programmers with our current knowledge of programming requirements.

Helpful Documents Elsewhere

• Monta Vista Robotics Team (#115) Trainings
  “Every year the team holds trainings for its rookie members. Here are some tutorials created by veteran members to try and bridge the knowledge gap between veterans and rookies.
• Simbotics (#1114) Workshops
  “The experienced mentors from Simbotics have created the following workshops for the benefit of all FIRST teams. We hope that they will be able to help others to become even more successful in the coming season.”
• The Miracle Workerz (MOE #365) University
  “Every year the MOE mentors hold a series of courses for new and old students alike.”
• Raider Robotics SOPs
  “Team 75 standard operational procedures (SOPs).”
• CAMS Robotics (The Nerd Herd Team #687)
  “Because of internal and external documents, we have been awarded the FRC Kleiner-Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award at the Arizona, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Las Vegas Regional Competitions, in addition to the 2009 ATL World Championships and 2011 St. Louis World Championships!”