Today was the first meeting of my school's two FTC robotics teams, which I am mentoring this year. The challenge/game/ruleset was announced a week or so ago, so the season has officially begun. The purpose of this meeting was to introduce the game to those who hadn't heard about it and inform the new people about important elements of FTC. The coaches have decided to explicitly assign roles to people, which I'm not quite comfortable with, but at least the roles are flexible (i.e. one can work in other areas too). I created a spreadsheet to use for attendance tracking and added it to the SharePoint group.
While the actual team members did the marshmallow challenge team-building exercise, I skimmed the official rule books and authorized the installation of Android Studio on the programmers' laptops. After the exercise, engineering methods such as iteration and prototyping were discussed. Hopefully we can start actually doing things next time.
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