Theoretically, If I was homeschooled and rich (which im not) , could I create and run an FRC team? I’ve been up thinking about this all night?
Theoretically yes
I think the minimum is technically 3 - 1 student and 2 mentors (TIMS requires two background-checked mentors per team). Of course, the level of involvement isn’t dictated!
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Already existed back in 2016 and 2017. It was team 5859 i, as far as the legend goes this kid moved and decided to make a team with their parents as coaches
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There was another in Canada in 2013-2014 (don’t remember exactly, and don’t remember the number). The team was one teacher and three students, then two of them had to leave, so at their regional they were only one teacher and one kid. Iirc, ome kids from another team joined him for the drive team, then they were selected for elims and played against their original team in the quarter final.
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We (6832) started team 8136 STEAMLes from Lesotho and this year only one student was able to travel alongside the coach so in Green Country Regional there was only one student but back in Lesotho there are more
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I mean yes yea you could, but if you do I’d heavily recommend relying on lots of outside help and pre building or using mostly drop in software frameworks since you’ll be heavily time constrained.
There was a team in Michigan I think in 2020? Paging @Tom_Line because I believe they played with said team.
They started with more students, but ended up competing with one.
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FRC 1308 was started by a single student back in 2004. One year Friday fell on a Good Friday at Buckeye and the school administration showed up and dragged him from the competition and other teams stepped in to drive the robot for him including Greg Needel (there’s a post about it somewhere in the archives).
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I believe 7179 was a one-student team in 2019. Apparently the student had to convince one of his friends to come to competition to have a human player. They were our first pick from the #3 seed on Carver at Houston Champs.
-Mike
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This may have some things:
2013 in Alberta! This was the biggest coopertition memories I’ve had in FIRST!
Team 4625 was the team number. Their robot had shown up to competition in dire straits, and as I recall many teams sent one or 2 members to help out, including one on my team at the time (3278). For the playoffs, I’m pretty sure one of the parents went to a local store and got matching shirts for all the members who helped.
I’m sure someone will find it, but I did a long write up about it on the old format of CD, but I’m not sharing a link here because I was a TERRIBLE writer, and I don’t want to associate with me from a decade ago…
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Yes, we picked 8380 “Team Austin” as our 3rd robot and ended up winning the event. After that, everything shut down so Austin did not have another event that year - or any year. There is no record of 8380 playing another season. I’m not sure if Austin found another team, but he can claim that 8380 won every single event that they played in!
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You forget the part where he ran his own escape room to help fund the team.
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AUSTIN! AUSTIN! AUSTIN!
If Austin showed up in our build space he would be a hero.
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Wow I did not knew that
Memorys a bit hazy, but 8623 showed up at Livonia in 2022 just to get help getting robot and stuff together. If I remember they had one mentor and one student, but sounded like they had more.
They brought more students at Belleville the next week when they were competing.
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I think in 2019 the VEX World Champion who also did FRC went to einstein as a nearly 1 man team (their family was the team basically)