r/FRC

Hello everyone! I made a post just after the Reefscape season about my team’s coach leaving and they ended up deciding to stay. This time however, they are officially leaving. I wish that there was more time before the offseason event to make this post but unfortunately I was just notified. Without a new coach our program dies. I’m a senior this year and FIRST has been my livelihood since I joined when it encouraged me to go into robotics engineering and I have passed up many large opportunities for FRC. If anyone has any ideas of how we can find another coach or if anyone would be interested please let me know. The team is 6071 in Bay City Michigan. Thank you for any resources you’re able to provide.

hi, becoming captain at my team.

was wondering how do yall manage and retain new members? what not because as of last year, most of our new members just show up for a week and then dissapear and then theres only like 3 grade 9s.

in short what things do yall do or historically have been doing to retain new members?

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I’m applying to a FIRST robotics team and I have an interview scheduled with them soon that will help determine whether I get accepted into the team or not. I’m relatively new to FIRST as a whole so I don’t have many technical skills to offer, but they say that they welcome beginners regardless.

How should I prepare for interviews such as these? I have an extremely strong willingness to learn and would love to be on this team.

Thanks in advance!

Hello! How do you all manage photo storage and uploading for a team. Last season in FRC (rookie year), we used google photos, but if people left the album or deleted the photos from their device, we lost the photos. We almost lost ALL of our comp photos because of this. I have set up an immich server, but it isn't working too well for a variety of reasons (mainly bc im the only one interested in it and im graduating, so no one can take on the responsibility of managing it). Is there any pretty simple/user friendly host you use for cloud storage? We do need all the members of the team to be able to upload to it (and not lose access to it if smth happens to the uploader). We can't really afford anything too expensive and a 1 time payment would be preferred. Any recommendations would be amazing! Thank you!!!!

hello, im an upcomming 3rd year in FRC, however I have never been on the drive team before and my driver hasnt been picked yet so i cant ask them for what their preferences are and chances are theyre going to be a freshmen.

im most likely going to be drive coach this upcoming season and i just wanted to ask if there are any tips as to like what to call out, how you communicate with other teams (from what ive seen the space between the teams in the alliance station is huge so wouldnt it be hard to communicate with them during the match?), how to make strategic calls, how to understand your driver and their habits, and like what makes a good drive coach, etc.

additionally, ive mostly been stuck in pits and im socially awkward (overthinking and not knowing what to say), so i havent gotten a chance to talk to other teams as much, but i want to try and start "networking" a little more and like maintaining the familiarity with other teams esp after comp. i know how to initiate a conversation without being weird but like the process of casually talking to them after like for example if you had to talk to them because you have a match or like their team or wtv idk how to like casually talk to and approach them after the reason i need to talk to them is gone. also how do some of yall genuinely get other peoples socials so easily? 😭 im not tryna be weird about stuff like this i just genuinely want to make more friends and be more social for my last year.

Hi guys! Im pretty sure im gonna be one of the captains of my team throughout next season. Im super excited and hope it works out.

I was wondering if any Captains or former captains have any advice on how to successfully run a team? Anything helps

Thx!

Hello, I've been looking at GMzero for tips on how to pocket but I find it confusing and not that helpful. If anyone has any other resources that would be great because I know its beneficial to pocket parts of the robot. (Ive also looked at youtube and didnt find any tutorials that would help for fusion)