Resources for teams
Take any of this
Presentations we have given at the FIRST Championship and at NE FIRST University Day, plus the short explainers we make for other teams. Use any of it with your own team.
Presentations
The long form
Sustaining success: mastering sponsorship for FIRST robotics
Built to help teams find sponsors and, harder, keep them. Presented at the FIRST Championship.
PDFWorlds scouting presentation
How Team 195 runs a scouting operation end to end, from the stands to the alliance selection table.
PDFWorlds ROS presentation
Using the Robot Operating System on an FRC robot: what it buys you and what it costs you.
PDFThe Predicament Playbook
What to do when it goes wrong: build season hurdles, competition setbacks, and the habits that keep a team going season after season.
Two Minute Tuesday and friends
The short form
Two Minute Tuesday: CAD
Team 195 explains its CAD process, in under two minutes.
VideoTwo Minute Tuesday: scouting
How the scouting sub-team works, in under two minutes.
VideoTwo Minute Tuesday: outreach
Our community outreach, in under two minutes.
VideoFIRST team travel: tips to save money
Team 195 mentor Cheryl Hilton on hotels, buses, restaurants and side trips, and how the CyberKnights move dozens of people to district, regional and championship events without going broke.
More from us
Tools, answers and code
Practice field
Open to any team, and used by nearly half the FRC teams in Connecticut.
Scouting data
Live CSV and JSON from the events we cover, plus the format guide.
Programming tutorials
Vision, target tracking and motion control, from our programming mentors.
KnightLine
Ask us anything about FIRST. No question is too basic, and a mentor answers by email.
KnightChat: FIRST on Air
Our podcast: STEAM in government, strategy, mentoring and getting a school behind a team.
Our robot code
Every season on our own GitLab, readable without an account. Take what is useful.