Pre kickoff week:
Make sure 100% that all simple and basic (yet important tasks) (to be expanded in a moment) are done:
- Team Mangment: The sub-teams and members, mentors and parents know everything that needs to be known (roles, missions, deadlines, application and tools to use etc.)
- Equipment: Make sure the lab is secured and has all the basic required equipment (computers, drills, saws etc.)
- Get ready for kickoff: Make sure place to watch kickoff is secured, be it at another team's school auditorim or at one of our members house. Make sure papers, pens, pencils, clipers, ink, printers, scanners etc. are preparid, as well as food (a couple of snacks and sodas about 60 small sand' and 7 1.5Lt drinks).
Kickoff day: If at another team's place, get there an hour or two before (with coordination pre-event).
If at our own member's house, the member must make sure a day before/ on the day of the kickoff that the NASA TV webcast works (with the screen that the team will be watching).
Members will come to either of the two places before the kick off (which usually begins at 17:00 Israel time (atleast that's what it was last year)) make sure that preperations for sitting places, the food, drinks and rest of the equipment are set.
- Once all members are present, a short rebriefing of what's going to happen, what to expect and what should every member do along the kick off viewing.
- Watch kick off till it's end. Notes to be taken.
- Once password is out, print all of the important documents first (The robot, The game, The arena, The tournament and others). First copies of the documents will be given to (a) specific sub-team(s) to go over them. After there are enough copies of all the important documents, give them to each sub-team, to start looking for important notes, rules and missions for each sub-team. Info will be shared in between. That's where the Brainstormin starts.
Strategy starts straight away with understanding the game fully, overviewing the kickoff videos (the animation and demonstration) and working on game strategies (whatever the sub-team can do. It's very probable that they'll continue their work the following day after the Israeli Kick off).
Some teams that their work won't be much of a nessecity for the following 12 hours will build a minature model of the field (arena, game peices and robots).
The other sub-teams take the notes from the important documents about their own sub-team. They will work on understanding the notes and discussing details related to their role, in relation to that note (meaning, if a role says this part is not allowed, they should disscuss what that means and what can they do).
Israeli Kickoff: This year, we're really (no kidding) close to the FIRST Israel office, so we'll be helping with the volunteering for the kick off, the registartions of the teams and their receiving of the kits.
We'll get our kits, walk (yep, it's that close) back to the lab, open the kits, check all the parts are there, intact, no sirious damages and are approved to work with.
The deal should take no more than 2 and a half hours and by then, the strategy sub-team and other mechanical teams will be working on planning the designs.
From there on, it'll be telling our whole build season schedule.
Nir.
P.S
Sorry if it's too long
