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A FIRST team or any youth development team is a complicated organism. There are many aspects that go into the management of a team and the moving parts vary greatly depending upon the team’s structure, environment and stakeholders. FIRST Youth development itself requires at a minimum the understanding of Youth Protection Policies, Data Privacy and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
How to Run a Sustainable Team and Not Lose Your Mind
FIRSTChampionship 2022 WORKSHOP How to run a Sustainable FIRST robotics team and not lose your mind. Running a youth development organization these days includes a lot of moving parts: complex and challenging issues that can be stressful. Whether you are a…
Helping youth navigate and self-advocate within FIRST
Building a Functional Team Handbook
There are a variety of documents a team may need to have to simply exist. A club form or charter proclaiming that you do exist within a group, bylaws with the rules to protect and run the organization, but what should a handbook have to be useful to the members of…
Are we talking Continuity or Sustainability?
Are these terms interchangeable? No, they are not. Simply put, continuity is about the functions of surviving, and sustainability is about setting up your strategies to thrive. In the hierarchy of needs for organization health, the means to survive must be met…