Thank you for joining us at the 2024 FIRST Mentor Conference workshop, Future-Proof Your Team: Strategies for Building Resilient and Adaptable FIRST Robotics Teams

Below is a link to the slides from the workshop and resources links. If you have any questions.  You can email Elise at elise@liseydreams.com for questions and/or comments.

The slide deck and sustainability report card are not meant to provide you a blueprint of how to future proof your team. FIRST Robotics Competition teams vary too greatly in their organization and resources for one solution. Rather the goal is to bring awareness of areas your team might need to look at to improve your change for long term sustainability. 

Never try to tackle everything in one season.  Choose a goal or two each year.  Build the process into your team calendar and culture to build stronger more sustainable systems.

Results

  • The pdf of the downloadable presentation, includes the collective results of 29 team entries anonymized.

To complete the Sustainability Report Card:

To Make a Copy of the report for your own use.

    • You are welcome to a copy of the form to use in your area. Please email me at elise@liseydreams.com and I will send you a new copy of the google form

When using this material, please include credit to 4-H Exploding Bacon Team 1902

Tip

Communication and transparency are key elements to building understanding in healthy teams.

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 and judges at numerous FIRST events, on regional planning committees, with the FIRST Hall of Fame, and has conducted workshops on imagery, chairman's and team organization and more. By day she is a freelance web and graphic designer. Read More about Elise