2. Team 1540 History
2011 Team captain and Regional Finalist, San Diego
2011 Innovations in Controls, San Diego
2010 Chairman’s Award, Oregon (Championship Qualifier)
2010 Winner Colorado Regional (Championship Qualifier)
2010 Innovations in Controls, Colorado
2009 Engineering Inspiration Award (Championship Qualifier)
2009 Best Website Award Oregon and Las Vegas
2008 Engineering Inspiration Award (Championship Qualifier)
2008 Winner Oregon Regional (Championship Qualifier)
2008 Best Website Award Oregon Regional
2008 Xerox Creativity Award Las Vegas
2007 Chairman’s Award, Oregon Regional (Championship Qualifier)
2007 Finalist Oregon Regional
2007 Motorola Quality Award, San Diego Regional
2005 Rookie Inspiration Award, PNW Regional
2005 Best Website, Region & World Championship
5. Parent Meeting
• Attendance required
• Play FIRST promo video
• Talk about expectations
• What the kids get out of it.
• Scholarships, university
recognition, leadership
opportunities
• Ask for donations and announce
any fees
• Recruit mentors, food providers,
logistics help, etc.
12. Mentor Involvement
• Some team’s robots are
entirely student designed and
built.
• Some team’s mentors and
students work side by side.
• Some team’s mentors pretty
much do it all with students
helping where they can.
• All mentors should read
FIRST Mentoring Guide at
www.usfirst.org/
uploadedFiles/Community/
FRC/Team_Resources/
Mentoring%20Guide.pdf
13. Team Management
Team 1540 Organization Chart
Mentors Head Coach
Co-Presidents
Control Chairman’s Competitive
Software Mechanical Marketing Web
Systems & Outreach Analysis
14. Time Requirement
• It will take over 1500 person hrs to make a
competitive FRC robot.
• Data Point: Last year Team 1540’s 24 student
members logged 2,100 student-hours over six
weeks.
• Teams with mentors doing much of the work
MIGHT be less.
• Team 1540 requires students to log at least 50
hours in the fall and 50 in the build season.
Average was 116
15. Sample Time & Certification Log
Name Grd Lab Hrs Ext Hrs Total Meet Fab Dsgn Air Elec SW Mktg Web Other Competition Department(s)
Alex Liem 11 108.98 108.98 15 C2 I C2 C2-Video Mech, Video, Control
Amanda Cahn 11 45.97 7 52.97 14 C2 C1 C2 Mktg, Mechanical
Anne Gilleland 10 78.92 19 97.92 13 W1 I Mgr2 W3 I I-Comp Analysis Control
Anthony Eden 12 151.55 151.55 15 C1 Mgr3 Software, co-captain
Benji Lin 10 57.45 5 62.45 13 C2 C2 Software, Mechanical
Casey Currey-Wilson 10 90.73 13 103.73 14 C2 Software
Eli Skeggs 10 66.62 33.5 100.12 13 C1 C1 C2 CoMgr C-Comp Analysis Comp Analysis, Web, SW
Eve Lowenstein 10 96.13 20.7 116.83 14 C1 Mgr2 W3 C1 Control
Gene Yamamoto 10 43.25 15 58.25 14 C2 Mechanical
Hannah Ashley 10 0 9.5 9.5 10 W1 C2 Op Mgr Marketing, Ops
Henry Gordon 12 136.18 136.18 14 C3 C1 C2 Mgr3 Comp Mgr3 Mktg, Comp Analysis, Mech,
Design, Chairmans, co-
captain
Ian Jones 10 45.52 22 67.52 12 C2 C2 Mechanical
Keegan McCarthy 10 150.33 4 154.33 15 Mgr2 C2 C2 C2 C2-Video Mech, Mktg, Video, Design
Lukas Stracovsky 9 77.22 77.22 14 C2 C1 Mechanical
Lynne Stracovsky 12 33.87 23.6 57.47 13 C2 C1 CoMgr Web, Mechanical
Marina Dimitrov 10 121.43 14.5 135.93 15 C2 I C2 C2 C-Comp Analysis, C- Mech, Mktg, Chairmans,
Chairman’s Control, Comp Analysis
Michael Elliott 9 47.9 14.5 62.4 12 C2 Mechanical
Owen Chapman 10 41.33 10.5 51.83 13 C2 Mechanical
Paramintr Tienpasertkij 11 67.28 67.28 14 Mgr3 C2 I I C2 Mechanical, Design, Web
Peter Smith 9 59.38 59.38 13 C2 C2 W1 Mechanical
Rohisha Adke 12 86.1 9 95.1 14 C3 C1 Chairman’s Mgr Chairman's, Mech, Design,
co-captain
Thomas Newlands 9 0 62 62 12 C-Animation
Tucker Gordon 10 109.75 19.9 129.65 15 C2 C1 C2 C2 I Mgr2 Video, C-Comp Mechanical, Video, Mktg,
Analysis Comp Analysis
Tyler Quatraro 10 43.2 9.8 53 14 C2 W1 C1 W1 Mechanical
18. Registering Your Team
• Go to TIMS
https://my.usfirst.org/
frc/tims/site.lasso
• Register for a Regional
• Register for a Kickoff
• Teams must submit
payment by 12/02/11
• Rookies pay $6,500
Veterans $5,000.
$4,000 2nd regional
19. Sample Budget
$6,500 Registration for a regional
$2,700 Additional materials
$500 Practice field components
$200 Shipping crate (optional)
$100 Robot cart
$100 Publicity materials
$500 T-shirts & marketing
$0 Robot shipment –FedEx?
$400 Pre/Post-season events.
Total:$11,000 not including
tools and shop fixtures
20. Fundraising
• Deb Mumm-Hill, FIRST Regional Director
• For NASA Grants be sure to read the white paper:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2167
21. Facilities – Facts
• Building robots is messy – hard floors are best
• Building robots is noisy
• Robots sometimes need 10’ + headroom
• Need safe place to store tools and parts
• Ideally a place where you can make a mess and
leave it.
• Internet Access
• Carpeted place to test robot
• Need a bathroom available
• You don’t NEED a machine shop
22. Facilities (con’t)
• High school shop
• High school science classroom
• High school theater scene shop
• Parents garage
• Local machine shop
• Church basement
• Local company that can loan you space
• Portable classroom
• Cafeteria
24. Tools – Must Have
• Hack Saw and Miter Box $35
• Good wire crimper $60
• Soldering iron 40W $15
• Two power drills, 12v or higher. Lithium Ion or
NiMH strongly preferred $140 each
• Drill Bits $25 up
• Dremel tool set $75
• Bench Vice $50 up
• Approx $1,000 for all essential tools
25. Tools – Really Nice To Have
• Heat Gun $70
• Drill Press $250 up
• Bench Disc Sander $200 up
• 12” Power Miter Saw with 96 tooth blade $270 up
• Miter Saw Stand $100 up
• Hand Power Jig Saw or Sawzall $89 up
• Bench Grinder (for steel) $65
• Abrasive Cutoff Saw (for steel) $90 up
• Multimeter $30 up
• Total for a good starter shop: $2,000.
26. Tools to Aspire to (or Get Donated)
• Band Saw $700 up
• Cold Saw $1,000
• Second Drill Press $250 up
• Manual Milling Machine +tooling $2,500 up
• Table Saw $500 up
• Metal Lathe and tooling $1,200 up new
• CNC Milling Machine $6,000 up
• Welding Equipment?
29. Strategy – Do it All or One Thing Well?
• Sometimes there’s a need for robots specialized
in one aspect of the game or another.
• Rookies more likely to get picked if they are
really good at something key rather than
mediocre at everything.
• Rookies are frequently not in the top 8. Focus
on what it would take to get the attention of one
of the top eight teams.
• Have a competitive analysis team from year 1
32. Pit Judging
• The Judging process is
done by volunteers
who are human
• Students need to
prepare for the pit
judging
• Drop everything to talk
to judges or ask them
to return.
33. Conclusion: Don’t Go It Alone
• Join Oregon FRC Distribution list
www.groups.google.com. Search for FRC-Oregon.
• Get a mentoring team … better yet, take two.
• Read the FRC Coaches Handbook and
Mentoring Handbook
• Chief Delphi.com
• OregonFIRST.org
