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Re: Question How to mentor Driver FRC Team

I'm a junior on the Technokats and this will (hopefully) be my 3rd year on the drive team. Team 45 typically has a driver (robot placement on field) and an operator (what the robot is doing). Every year the mentors look over the game manual and make several 45 question tests. Any drive team candidates must score a 90% or greater to be considered for drive team. They also need to have attended at least 50% of practices/build sessions. Typically in the technokats, two students that have a certain chemistry pair up for drive team. This year we took the first regional's practice matches as tryouts. I do not advise this. Before your first regional I would have tryouts. Try placing a person on different positions. You may find that they are really excellent at something you/they hadn't thought of.

My freshman year we had 1 drive team. The driver and operator were seniors and had extensive knowledge of rules. They were also sub team leads so they knew the capabilities of the robot.
My sophomore year a freshman and myself were the primary drivers. We also had a secondary team in case we for some reason could not attend a competition. That was the year we had almost daily drive practices with our backup bot and 7am Saturday practices. We also recorded data after each practice match and saw that we had improved greatly from the start of the season until the end.

We really didn't need to be told to practice and in fact we were often begged if we would let the sub teams work on the robot a little.

As for if the drivers should be an important sub team member that is up to you. Most of our mechanical team members said they'd baby the robot too much so as not to hurt it

The qualities of good drivers can include
  • being a good listener
  • hard working
  • committed
  • having an natural affinity doesn't hurt
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