2. Starting an FRC Team? Resources to Help!

3. Don’t Be Afraid! (We Can Help!) What is FRC? What’s “Gracious Professionalism” and “Coopertition”? What’s involved? What’s the time commitment? How do I recruit people? How should the team be organized?

4. Plugging in Contact your local Regional Director Register your team in TIMS Read documentation

5. Official resources FIRST Website: www.usfirst.orgwww.usfirst.org FRC Team forums: http://forums.usfirst.orghttp://forums.usfirst.org Team support at frcteams@usfirst.org, 1-800-871-8326 x0frcteams@usfirst.org

6. E-mail Blasts, blogs, etc. Register in TIMS; main and alternate contacts will get FIRST e-mail blasts Team will receive semi-weekly Updates during Build and Competition Season FRC Program Director Bill Miller’s Blog frcdirector.blogspot.com Regional Director, Regional Planning Committee or local organization e-mails

7. Build It Mentor Resources Library – section III – Building a Robot Brainstorming and Design Process including CAD & Autodesk What comes in the Kit of Parts What programming languages can I use? What tools do I need? What’s a Control System? How does our robot get to the competition?

8. Fundraising, Eating and Other Important Stuff Raising the money Organizing the team Communications 101 Feeding the troops Working together We’ve got spirit, how about you? Are we there yet?

9. We Are Not Alone Identify a Mentor team Boston Regional Mentor Group Chief Delphi forums NEMO white papers

10. Contact Us: Kathie : kkentfield@usfirst.org Jack: resqjak@comcast.net