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Skunkworks Robotics - Team 1983

 

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Helping Other Teams

In the Off Season
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 Build Season
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.

At Competitions
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.


Quick Links
  • 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

Mentors

A mentor explaining how the robot works to new members of FIRST.


Consulting
A Skunk explains the scouting plan to other FIRST members.


Awarding
Two of our Skunk Awards.

 



 
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