Is it possible for your team to talk about how you design your game strategy, your robot chassis and the game piece manipulating devices to achieve consistent performance (accurate scoring of game pieces)? What methods do your team use to verify that the performance of the robot is consistent?
Thank you so much for these seminars.
Orioles and Cardinals are the birds this season.
Not that I wouldn’t mind seeing Jays too.
They have 16 games to get their OPR up.
aaahhhhhh, statistics.
Are these presenters qualified to run these seminars?
Considering karthik is the head mentor of a team that’s won the chairman’s award AND world championship, I think he knows what he’s talking about :). If you want check out his previous seminars, “Effective FIRST Strategies”. Both the 2012 and 2013 versions are excellent!
Joke went over my head…
Doesn’t he help with the VEX Game Design also? Just saying… He knows his stuff.
Almost like he’s the Chairman of the VEX Robotics and VEX IQ Game Design Committees or something… :rolleyes:
Small request… Please do post PowerPoint slides on your website!
Here’s the link to our first broadcast, Running an FRC Team, taking place on October 1st at 9:00 pm.
The Blue Jays took the ultimate sacrifice to ensure we would get our seminars on time…::rtm::
I was rooting for the mariners anyway… :eek:
Going live in 3 minutes!
Bump, an hour and a half in and I’ve learned a ton!
Looks like my Wednesday slot for the rest of these sessions are filled.
The first seminar was amazing! Have to leave a bit early due to school
I was especially touched when someone asked my question for me after Karthik accidentally (I hope so at least :yikes: ) skipped my question!
Great first seminar
Strategic Design section is great - look forward to next week.
Go Mets in 2015 (wait until next year!).
Thanks for these, watched the first one last night…can’t wait for Strategic Design…have been implementing your ideas with our team for the past couple seasons…
The Simbots and their dedication to further the competition level of this program are remarkable. The fact that Karthik makes himself available till 11 PM EST to answer questions after the presentation, is just one example of this. THANK YOU SIMBOTS.
FIRST gives everyone lots of practice in getting used to late nights.
A seminar on business plans and strategy for marketing would be awesome! We’re really looking forward to improving this part of our team, and we’d love to have something to watch as a guide for that. 
I have used the 1114 strategy presentation for presenting strategic design approach for lots of teams in Michigan. It is a great packet to run through once you have watched the seminar and give relevant examples/ exercises.
Last week, I was working with a team, and we went through the presenation and then watched some previous years game footage. Using the techniques described.
We watched 2003 and 2008. Interestingly, after going through some quick brainstorming and possible ways of executing the game, the kids were able to come up with strategies similar to what did very well those years.
2003 is an especially interesting one to do the exercise on. It has incredibly high scoring potential, and a possible “choke hold” scenario, though this scenario would be incredibly difficlut to execute.
Here’s the link this week’s seminar, Strategic Design, taking place on October 8th at 9:00 pm.
From now on you, you can always find a link for the upcoming live seminar at: