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seinchin seinchin is offline
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New FRC team in Inglewood, CA?

Hi all,

I teach Algebra 1 and Physics at Animo Inglewood Charter High (in Inglewood, CA), and some students there are interested in starting a FIRST team. At the moment, I have a solid group of students who are very excited and driven, but not much else. Administration is generally supportive, but they only learned what FIRST is a few days ago. I was on a FIRST team in Ohio (1014) in high school, and then mentored that same team through four years of college at Ohio State, so I'm not completely clueless on how to run a team. However, my knowledge on starting a new team and being in charge of a FIRST team in general is a little fuzzy.

What I know:
Start-up costs are high. We'll want a NASA grant.
I need 15-30 students.
We need sponsors.
We need a place to work.
We need parent support.
We need admin support.
We need veteran teams to help us!
Another faculty adviser so I can sleep during the build season.
What a successful FIRST team looks like and does

What I don't know:
How to find sponsors/a place to work.
What veteran teams there are in the SoCal area and what the FIRST culture is like here.
Anything about wiring (ok I can solder, but I don't know what to solder where!)
How to register . . .
Programming (as in, I've programmed before, but not for FIRST)

Any advice from you veterans out there? Anybody in SoCal want to help us out?

Thanks
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