Houston Mock Kickoff Oct 31st

[thinker&planner]

Sounds cool. I can't be there, but I am interested in the topics.
Any chance that the presentations could be streamed or recorded?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by thinker&planner

Sounds cool. I can't be there, but I am interested in the topics.
Any chance that the presentations could be streamed or recorded?

Our goal is always to record them. Hopefully we can get at least one session of each presentation recorded.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Just a reminder to please RSVP for the mock kickoff if you are planning to attend. This is a great event to get introduced to FRC and learn some new things as well.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Here is the link to the posted presentations from the 2015 Houston Mock Kickoff.

Presentations

We also recorded Logan's fantastic presentation on how 118 continues to be successful at each of their competitions. I feel like this a must watch for many teams.

Video of Logan's presentation

Thank you to all our presenters and everyone that came to Mock Kickoff this year. We had a ton of new students and a few pre-rookie teams as well who hopefully are now more prepared for the upcoming season.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Logan's presentation is great! Thanks for the video!

[STreese]

This was a great event and very informative. Our small group from 624 enjoyed attending and participating (safety presentation). Thanks to Spectrum for sponsoring it.

[sciencenuetzel]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Logan's presentation is great! Thanks for the video!

+10

We will definitely be sharing parts of this with our team.

[GeeTwo]

Yes, thanks for posting the video - I'll be watching it and forwarding to our other leadership.

3946 held our own first-ever mock kickoff today, inviting a couple of rookie teams to join us. We did a repeat kickoff of 2008 FIRST Overdrive, and had the students break into three separate teams (encouraged to share) to develop overall strategies and high level designs. Two of the teams determined that knocking the balls off of the overpass, carrying them, and hurdling with the robot remaining below the overpass was optimal, but that replacing the trackball on the trackball on the overpass was likely to be more work and/or compromises (such as high CoG and slow progress) than it was worth. They both punched the ball over the overpass, one from very low much like Einstein finalist #16 Bomb Squad. The other decided to also return the trackballs to the overpass, though there wasn't enough detail/description to convince me that it could have worked like that. Unfortunately, none of the groups developed hybrid mode strategies after they realized that the trackball placement was determined (or at least announced) after the robots were in place. After the game reveals, we watched the Einstein finals to see what worked at the very top levels. Lots of fun, and lots of learning; we may do another before kickoff 2016, and will definitely do this at least once a year in the future.

[philso]

Here is a link to the updated version of my presentation "FRC 2587 Electrical Layout & Construction Notes". The "Resources" handout pages are the last three pages of the presentation.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3177