After things have calmed down after the hectic
season, we offer a rookie workshop and scrimmage
to other teams in our area. During this event,
we explain FIRST to new students
and mentors. Mentors from our team, and other
teams, present their knowledge of what can
be expected. We not only share information
needed for building the robot, but also information
on maintaining a team, such as fundraising
and organization. We hosted our first scrimmage
in the fall of 2009 to excite teams around
us and give new FIRST members a
taste of competition. We also share many
documents for other teams to use as resources,
such as our business, safety, and scouting
plans. Visit our Skunk
Zone for these documents.
During the build season we try very hard
to help new teams. We start the season by
helping rookie and sophomore teams build
kitbots immediately after kickoff. We also
have mentored team #2942, Evergreen Robotics
(ER), one of our neighbor high schools. We
not only help them with building, but also
logistics and fundraising. Near the end of
build season, we invite teams in the area
to practice on our regulation game field.
This allows other teams to test their robots
and it excites them for upcoming regionals.
Our team honors other teams during regional
events. We hand out awards to other teams
that recognize their sucess and hard work.
These awards include "most unique robot," "best
performing," "most graciously professional," and "coolest
mascot." We also try to help other teams
as much as we can in the pits and we share
our scouting information with the teams in
the stands.
- Skunk
Zone - contains operating and training
materials to share
- Robotics
Links - contains an organized list
of links by subject area
- Team
Organization - contains roles, responsibilities,
and how we are organized
- Fundraising -
contains information on how we carry out
fundraising
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A mentor
explaining how the robot works to new
members of FIRST.

A Skunk explains the scouting plan
to other FIRST members.

Two of our Skunk Awards.
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