Rookie Organization

To all rookies!
Here, we have provided some documentation that we are using and/or have found helpful over the years. We hope this helps any rookie teams out there!  Items here are organized in a Timeline fashion so that teams can work through step by step organization.

Summer - June-August

1. Plan out your Budget.  Decide how much money you will need to run your team.

• See our budget estimate from the 2005 and 2006 Seasons
• FRC Teams run on anywhere from $8,000 to $100,000+

2. Plan out your Preaseason.  Decide what the team will do and how the team will be organized.

• We planned out the tasks we wanted to do in Preseason in this document. It includes potential team projects, subteam descriptions, engineering competitions for team meetings, mentor presentations, and some general tasks.
• See our Preseason Schedule (Coming Soon)
• Some organizational tips from NEMO
• A few hints... (advice for rookies) from NEMO
• Develop a Wish list of items & tools to get donated

3. Recruit your Mentors

• Collect Information with a Mentor info sheet
• See our first Mentor Recruiting Presentation

Preseason - September-December

4. Recruit your Students

• Advertise an Info Session
• Put up some Posters  around the School (Coming Soon)
• Recruiting Videos from Penfield: 2007, 2009, 2010
• Recruiting Video from SparX 1126: show
• Student Information session Presentation

5. Meet your Parents

• Send a Letter to all of the parents of students on your team: Sample letter
• You can follow the letter up with an email if you have parent emails
• Host a Parent Info Session: Sample Presentation
• Get your Parents to Signup to Help: Parent's signup letter, Parent Info Letter

6. Start Fundraising!!

• Decide your fundraisers or have students develop ideas: A fundraising form
• Run a Patron Drive to get donations from the community.
• See our Fundraising Ideas

7. Run your Preseason

• A sample All Team Kickoff meeting, or another Kickoff Presentation
• Subteam information sheet

Build Season - January-February

8. Build Season Organization

• Sample Build Season Schedules
• Have your Build Season Kickoff:
• Have your students & mentors divide into subteams.  We have them fill out this sheet

9. Organize Your Travel

• Example Permission Slips
• Example Trip Sign-up Sheets
• Important Championships Travel Info
• Important Regional Travel Info, more recent travel info from 2011 season

10. Promote your Team & Successes!

• Thunder Highlight Reel
• Write Press releases

OTHER INFO

• A FIRST summary
• 2012 FIRST Statistics
• An old game information sheet

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