Thank you for joining us at the 2025 FIRST Mentor Conference workshop, Gears in Motion: Culture, Communication, and Collaboration
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.
Presented by: Elise Cronin-Hurley and Amanda Little (1902)
Key Takeaway: Build stronger, more sustainable teams by understanding and honoring each person’s genius.
Discover how the “6 Types of Working Genius” framework can transform the way your team collaborates on any project – whether robot build, business team, awards, or team mgmt. Learn how understanding individual strengths and frustrations of mentors/students can improve team culture, distribute workload more effectively and joyfully, and benefit team sustainability. This workshop introduces the model, shows how it practically maps team roles, and gives real team scenarios and role challenges.
About the Presenters:
Elise Cronin-Hurley and Amanda Little, mentors of Exploding Bacon, Team 1902.
Elise, 1902 mentor since 2011: business teams & past team lead. FIRST Volunteer: Judge, Judge Advisor, & Champs IM. Board Member for Orlando & Tallahassee Florida RPCs. 40 years professional communications experience. Elise, 8 FIRST Champs Sessions since 2013, 4 FIRST Impact Chats at Champs, FMC 2023 & 2024, 5 FL Trainings in 2 yrs, numerous workshops online and in person on Team Sustainability, Awards, & Imagery. Several professional workshops on imagery, branding and communications topics.
Amanda, 1902 mentor since 2013: business teams, Treasurer, Board member and current team lead. FIRST Volunteer: Judge, FIRST Lego League Tournament Director, FLL Mentor; 4-H Volunteer; Parent of FLL, FTC & FRC alumni. Amanda, Team Sustainability workshop presented several times locally, at Regionals & FIRST Championship.
Tip
Knowing which of your team members strength is tenacity, can help you finish more projects.
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