Hey CD! As a part of our efforts to improve our media/outreach impact we are launching a podcast! Critical Crew is a podcast dedicated to shining a spotlight on international voices in the FIRST Robotics Competition. We plan to focus on a casual conversation vibe, just talking robots with other passionate individuals. Our first episode airs in about 1.5 hours from the time of posting on the official 9062 YouTube channel!
Episode 1, hosted by myself and Anushka, another mentor here on 9062, is a discussion of our favorite robots and archetypes.
join us for the premier at noon est at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T1561dHmYc
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I’ve been made aware of an issue with the upload, for some reason some of the frames have been replaced with the initial frame of the recording. this is not present in the file on my system so im not sure whats going on, Im working to resolve the issue
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Gerald, excellent work with the podcast this weekend! It was great to be able to watch it from home 
I for one am impressed with this initiative, seeing as it has been 100% first-year mentor driven. Are we looking for input for future topics with this podcast?
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Yes! Any ideas for topics, episodes ideas or feedback are always welcome
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Hallo again all! With the 2 week timeline I suggested in the last episode fast approaching, we are close to releasing another episode of the critical crew podcast this saturday, at at noon est again, if all goes well. Now the real question, What will it be titled? Critical Crew 2, Electric Boogalo? no. it will likely be titled The transition between student and mentor | Critical Crew Episode 2
We discuss our journey going from student to mentor, and the struggles we’ve encountered/things we’ve had to learn along the way.
This episode will be a bit shorter, but hopefully shed lots of insight to, and spark plenty of discussion within the wider community
If you’ve got some time to spare (and its past 2025-07-05T16:00:00Z), join us in chat or give it a listen! It’d mean a lot
~ Gerald
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Looking forward to more episodes! Great job on this so far.
I think it would be cool to do a deep dive into different subjects or subteams, as well as how your team handles awards and such.
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As always we’re looking for feed back from the community about our episodes and how to improve them! Please let us know either in this thread or through our youtube channel!! Thank you to those who have already given us ideas for future episodes.
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