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Team Role: Mentor
 
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Rookie Year: 2007
Location: Worcester, MA
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Re: rookie team (PLEASE HELP!)

Establish communication with other teams in your area. They can help you with just about anything.

Go all out attempting to secure funding and resources, like machining services and mentors. They'll give you a leg up.

Get as much done as you can before kickoff. Get T-shirts ordered, a shipping crate built, and anything else that does not absolutely have to be done during the 6 week build period.

Learn as much as you can about how the season, and the robots, work.

Study other great teams and robots from the past.

Perform "mock kickoffs," to fine tune the early stages of your team's design process.

Read these forums daily.
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FIRST is not about doing what you can with what you know. It is about doing what you thought impossible, with what you were inspired to become.

2007-2010: Student, FRC 1687, Highlander Robotics
2012-2014: Technical Mentor, FRC 1687, Highlander Robotics
2015-2016: Lead Mentor, FRC 5400, Team WARP
2016-???: Volunteer and freelance mentor-for-hire

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