Pre-Build Activities for rookie team

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Try to get in contact with the senior mentor for your area and see if that person can get you in contact with a team that can guide you through the control system before you get to build season. That team could potentially mentor your organization, allowing you to grow sustainably under their wing. A team may also have an old KOP drive base you may be able to put together yourself.

There is a wealth of documentation and presentations on the internet related to running a FIRST team. FIRST has materials for running the administrative side of the teams with information by teams, for teams. FIRST will also have resources created with GameSense that relate to building a good team and presenting resources available for you to use. Simbotics has presentations on Strategic Design, strategy, and scouting and has information in those presentations that teams of all ages can use. They also have Computer-Aided Design tutorials for SolidWorks, a program which is offered free by Dassault Systems for individual FIRST member use via their website.