[How I Work] - Karthik Kanagasabapathy

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How I Work - Karthik Kanagasabapathy

We have been on a short hiatus but we’re back with a bang.

Today we have one of the most well known mentors/MCs/VEX Game Designers/Simbots in the robotics community, Karthik Kanagasabapathy. He was a founding member of FRC#188 - Woburn Robotics, the 1st Canadian FRC team, and from there his passion for robotics competition grew. Karthik’s accomplishments need little introduction. He has been essential in developing FRC 1114 into a World Champion and Championship Chairman’s Award winning team. He is the Chairman of the VRC Game Design Committee and helps spread competitive robotics to thousands of teams around the world each year. He’s extremely active in the community, answering all of the VEX Q&A each year and having a consistent presence on Chiefdelphi. His strategy presentations the past few years have been standing room only events at FRC Championship. In this interview he tells you how he was brought into 1114, shares the best advice he’s ever received, and offers loads of advice for students and mentors alike.

I want to thank all of the excellent mentors that have agreed to help with this project so far, they are all shining examples of our community. We have three more articles coming in the next few weeks but after that we are all out. Please ask your mentors and friends to submit articles. Here are the questions.

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What an interesting and informative read!

I really think you guys are doing a service to the FIRST community by interviewing all these awesome mentors.

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These how I work articles are really neat. It’s awesome to be able to see how some of the best/most well known mentors of FIRST live and work on their teams.

If you’re looking for suggestions, I’d love to see an article about somebody from the cheesy poofs.

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Excellent read, thanks!

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I really want to see EJ answer these questions. I’d be interested in all his responses, but I can’t help but see his answer to one of the questions now:

“What everyday thing are you better at than anyone else?”

“Having my head photoshopped onto random stuff.”

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Current Gig/Job: I’m a cupcake doh.

What do you listen to while you work? Teh chezy dip #dipsohard #bringbackthedip

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Great “How I Work” article ! Thanks for sharing

The biggest task we have on Sundays is making sure everyone has a plan for what needs to be done during the week, especially the students, since they work fairly independently of the mentors during the week.

This is a great piece of advice for mentors.

I would be interested to see the 1114 team plan every Sunday.