FTC Demo Script

Intro: We're from First Tech Challenge team Marcus Bartholomew the Third Senior from Bradenton, Florida. We're going to talk about what FTC is, why you should join, and what you need to do to start a team!

• Next thing after FLL

• Robot demo - narrated by Lucas

  • Start with auto?
  • Mechanum wheels and strafing
  • Jeff shoot balls at audience
  • Intake

• What is FTC? - Lucas

  • Robot game - changes every year
    • Every year
      • 2 alliances of 2 robots each
      • 12 by 12 foot field
      • 18 by 18 inch robots
      • Lots of flexibility in what you can use to build your robot - kits from different companies or entirely custom-designed parts
      • Auto and teleop
    • This year
      • Shoot balls into goals

• Fun! - Josephine

  • Driving robot around, playing the game
  • Getting robot working and building it
  • Meet and work together with teams from all over

• Lots of benefits besides being fun - Josephine

  • Learn skills
    • Josephine - thought it would just be about programming and wasn't too interested in that, found out there was a whole lot more
    • Public speaking
    • Working together on a team
    • Making decisions, compromising
    • Being creative, coming up with your own ideas
    • Connecting with experts
    • Project management
    • Advertising, video, social media
    • Technical skills
      • Programming
      • Building
      • Design, 3D design
      • Mechanical engineering
      • Engineering process
  • Great extracurricular
  • Great for college applications or resume

• More about FTC - Josephine

  • Tournaments
    • Qualification matches where you are paired with and against random other teams
    • Best teams from qualification matches choose alliance partners to play with for playoffs
  • Judging
    • 8 different awards that you can win
      • Inspire award is the overall winner
      • Some awards are more technical, others are more about your team, such as outreach and sustainability
    • Can turn in 15 page portrfolio
    • Awards are separate from performance in the Robot game

• How to start a team - Caleb

  • More expensive and more effort than FLL, but…
    • It is worth it!
    • There is help available
      • Churches and your community will be supportive
      • Mel can provide some of the hardware you need to get started
  • Age range is 7-12th grade and anyone can start a team. It could be a school, church, pathfinder club, or any group of people that want to do it.
  • You can have up to 15 people on a team. Different people can focus on different things that they are interested in, you don't all have to learn it all.
  • Start with a robot starter kit and you can follow instructions to get a working robot (that's what we did)
  • Sooo many resources are online to help you, the hard part is not getting overwhelmed with all the information

• Try to get link to and QR code for our website on screen