STIMS Registration Guide
 

Having trouble with STIMS? Frustrated that you can't even get mad at students and parents for not filling it out because the process is so complicated? Here's a step by step guide, complete with screenshots from Jane Doe's registration process, for getting your entire FRC team in the system.

http://nutrons.com/wp-content/upload...te-STIMS-1.pdf

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Thank you for putting this out! Now I don't have to work on one for my team :).

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THANK YOU!!!!!

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It's seriously become that complex now? I would've thought their new website would have made this process easier, not harder.

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Yup!

Unfortunately it''s not nearly as intuitive as it should be. Things like having to select "Forgot Password" to actually create a password make the website extremely hard to understand and very challenging.

We had to call FIRST HQ to get some of our questions answered. The system is not fun.

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#TSINMFD

Hey Frank, if you read this then let us know that you're working on making STIMS better in the blog.

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My favorite part is how STIMS ping pongs between the new and old versions.

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My favorite part is that the "I want to..." button on the dashboard isn't intuitively a button. It does an amazing job of hiding the actual content that would be useful on a dashboard.

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Yea it's pretty rough. Registering Jane Doe took me about 5 hours, including the frustrating hour and a half figuring out the "forgot password" section...but hopefully this will help save kids and their families some of that time.

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Thank you for the guide. It was invaluable.

George P. Burdell was able to register in minutes and was approved by his father Edgar Smith.

With your guide, we should be able to get this done at a student/parent meeting paper party.

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Congratulations! This has got to be the [b]Post of the Week[/p].

Heck - a mod want to sticky this thing?

So glad you put this together!

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Done.

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Seriously! It shouldn't take a 41 page guide to register one person. I think I will have the head captain register so we can submit awards and have the rest do the paper form.

Also, what happens if the student is over 18?

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They are able to skip some of this process and register themselves through STIMS.

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I just checked the paper registration stuff.

http://www.firstinspires.org/sites/d...-2016-2017.pdf

It's intrusive to have a free/reduced lunch question on this form. This isn't something I need to know and it isn't something that FIRST needs to know.

They have always had the race/ethnicity questions at the team level, where I as the Lead Mentor could simply put in the counts or not. Same for gender.

What value does this provide? We take any and all students that want to be part of a team that does cool stuff centered around robots. I don't care about their race, gender, lunch status and neither should FIRST. The only thing FIRST truly needs is the second page that absolves them of liability.