Thank you for joining us at the 2025 FRC ROUNTABLE, run by KNIGHTKRAWLER ROBOTICS 2052, for Building Resilience:
Team Sustainability.
Below the video of the presentation are links to the slides from the workshop and a workbook doc. If you have any questions. You can email Elise at elise@liseydreams.com for questions and/or comments.
Presenters: Laurie Shimizu (FIRST Senior Mentor MN) and Elise Cronin-Hurley (Team 1902 Exploding Bacon FL)
A step by step resource for developing and implementing team continuity. The presenters will walk through a process to help you unpack your team’s current available information, discover what else you might want to develop, and build a living document that is easily transferable to a next generation.
About the Presenters:
Laurie Shimizu (FIRST Senior Mentor) and Elise Cronin-Hurley (Team 1902 Exploding Bacon)
Laurie’s Story
- Volunteer Experience
- FIRST Event Organizing, since 2007
- FIRST Volunteer Coordinator, since 2008
- FIRST Global Volunteer Coordinator, since 2015
- FIRST Mentor & lead contact, FRC 1816-”The Green Machine”
(retired; served 2006-2024; FIRST Hall of Fame 2019) - Edina Robotics Foundation (retired – co-founder & Treasurer, 2019-2025).
- Work Experience
- Journalist, editor, writer since 1982
- FIRST Senior Mentor (Minnesota), since 2014
- Education
- Bachelors: Communication Arts, 1982
Elise’s Story
- Volunteer Experience
- Event Organizing since 1988
- FIRST & 4-H Mentor since 2011 (Team Lead for Hall of Fame team,
4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics 1902, 2016-2019) - Communications Director for Orlando and Tallahassee Regionals,
in Florida - FIRST Hall of Fame Chair and FIRST Mentor Conference Planning
Committee and presenter – 3 years in a row
- Work Experience
- Graphic Design since 1985/Website Design since 2000
- Professional consulting experience: assisting organizations develop and recover digital assets.
- Education
- Bachelors: Organizational Communication 1990
- Masters: Public Admin w/focus on Non-Profits 1994
Tip
Think beyond awards: What legacy are you building?
About the Author
Serving as a mentor since 2011, Elise Cronin-Hurley also served as a Team Lead of 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics Team 1902 from 2016 – 2019. She volunteers at FIRST events and serves on two regional planning committees. She is the FIRST Hall of Fame chair; a member of the FIRST Mentor Conference planning committee; and has conducted workshops on imagery, awards, team organization and more. By day she is a freelance web and graphic designer. Read More about Elise