Presenters: Amanda Little , Elise Cronin-Hurley, and Joyce Walters and Wendy Austin presented this workshop at the FIRST Championship 2023.
Thank you for joining us at the 2023 FIRST Mentoring Conference Survive and Thrive Workshops.
If you have any questions, please email Elise at elise@liseydreams.com or Wendy at wendy@firstinspires.org. We would love to hear your key take aways and/or if there are recommendations on improvements we can make to better help teams survive and thrive.
The link for the presentation below includes the slides from both presentations.
Reminder
More than one person always needs to have access to critical team information, especially the underappreciated critical information.
This presentation is an evolution of numerous such presentations that have been developed and contributed to from the experiences of numerous mentors.
Thank you to the mentors who have contributed, including
Elise Cronin-Hurley, Wendy Austin, Amanda Little, Laurie Shimizu, and Joyce Walters
- all of whom have participated in presenting the content since 2021.
Now, FIRST has created a tremendous resource through their Training Portal. Creating Team Sustainability, is a 75-minute training module that also includes some interesting worksheet assets to help teams develop a more sustainable process. Some of their information was sourced from and inspired by our sustainability presentations located here at FIRSTMentorLife.com.
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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 for the 2016 - 2019 seasons. She volunteers at numerous FIRST events, on regional planning committees, mentor conferences and currently serves as the chair of the FIRST Hall of Fame. She has conducted numerous workshops on imagery, chairman's and team organization. By day she is a freelance web and graphic designer. Read More about Elise