FRC 1311
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An Announcement from Kell Robotics - FRC 1311.
We have made the decision to take a gap year from FRC in 2024. We will be using this gap year to reorganize and regroup, and we intend to return better than ever in 2025.
Hopefully you guys have a productive and fufilling year off!
Good luck!
Would you mind sharing some of the stuff you’ll be working on?
COVID took a wrecking ball to our team, we had 8 students in 2022 and I believe 13 last year. We haven’t had any formal organizational structure (sub teams) since COVID (because we’ve had so few people), so we’re going to work on an organizational structure that we can implement for 2025 which includes a new fundraising team (and more fundraising efforts), along with just generally more recruitment efforts - since COVID not many Kell students even know about FRC, and we want to change that.
I hope the gap year gives you time to regroup. Our school’s team started in 2019, went to one event, and then COVID hit. Plus our head coach moved to a different school two years later. I know there are plenty of PCH teams in the area who would be glad to help. I use the Kell team as a great example of GP because one of your mentors helped our head programmer get over a major hurdle at a
district event.
I highly recommend your team leadership in particular the mentors who are committing to its long term future create a 5 year plan for what the program’s goals and challenges. Students can do this too, but the a team’s long term success in FRC needs a foundation of good and thoughtful mentorship like what you had with your previous head coach.
@AmbroseWiering took our leadership team through this process during our offseason this summer and we created a Hoshin Kanri X Matrix to help us organize and plan out our future goals, tasks and assignments.
1102 has been anemic since COVID. We haven’t had more than 4-6 students for the last two seasons 2022-2023. With the organized goals and with Ambrose’s tireless efforts to do outreach we are now sitting at ~25 members in our current training/offseason build team.
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