Pear up
Traditionally, Pearadox invites other teams to our facility to go through the kickoff day with us. This allows teams to get a first hand look at how we look at the rule book, discuss what functions are available, and analyze robot function priorities.
Due to an anticipation of COVID cases spiking from the holidays, this year we will be livestreaming our kickoff for anyone that wants to follow along. The youtube link where it will stream from will be posted prior to kickoff
We will be using the documents below to guide our conversation throughout the day.
The below is a rough schedule we have followed in the past:
Due to an anticipation of COVID cases spiking from the holidays, this year we will be livestreaming our kickoff for anyone that wants to follow along. The youtube link where it will stream from will be posted prior to kickoff
We will be using the documents below to guide our conversation throughout the day.
The below is a rough schedule we have followed in the past:
- Guest speaker 830 AM
- Watch FRC live stream 9 AM - ?
- Rewatch game animation and brief high level discussion of what questions people want to find answers to
- lunch 11-12. This can be a good time to let students go wild with their discussion about the new game
- Rules review 12-1. Go through the entire rulebook together as a team.
- The remainder of the afternoon is spent on the following
- Go through the kickoff rules worksheet below
- Discuss what robots can do (ie conceptually, not discussing designs yet)
- game break of having students be robots and to see if we can get a feel for the game at all
- points analysis - compare effort vs time vs points for all the different ways to score (or prevent scoring)
- using the points analysis and the strategic planning document below, start determining what we think our team priorities for the robot should be based on our team goals (whether it's make playoffs at a district event, be a alliance captain at district champs, or win the world championships)
