This year we plan on competing in the following challenges from FIRST:

The typical Judged Awards (Mrs. Pace is leading the charge on these tasks)

1. Chairman’s Award
   • Anyone can help
2. Woodie Flowers Award
   • Seniors will select and write the essay
3. Dean’s List Award
   • The adults will choose our nominees.

INFINITE RECHARGE at Home (Travis, Adam will be leading this group)

• Judged Awards
  • Images of Robot
  • Video of Autonomous mode
  • Flyer describing the robot
  • Interview with Judges
• Skills Competition (The Judged Awards^ must be completed to be eligible to compete)
  • 2 Autonomous Challenges
  • 3 Teleoperated Challenges

Innovation Challenge (Mr. Mach and Mrs. Angelo are leading this group)

• Identify a problem or opportunity and design a solution to help people (or a community of people) keep,
  regain, or achieve optimum physical and/or mental health and fitness through active play or movement.
  • Identify and define a problem or opportunity.
  • Brainstorm and design an innovation to seize the opportunity or solve the problem
    • The innovation can be entirely new and novel or may significantly improve an existing
      invention
  • Create a business model
  • Show and be evaluated on the soundness of the design
  • Develop and present a pitch for the innovation
    • Each team develops a two (2) minute business pitch, to be presented live
  • Use technology in either the solution development process and/or design
    • The use of technology in either the solution itself or the development of the solution
      will fulfill this requirement.

Game Design Challenge

• The Game Design Challenge is an opportunity for teams to design a FIRST Robotics Competition game
  and compete against other teams for a chance to pitch their game to the FIRST Robotics Competition
  Game Design Team.

We will also be pushing forward with moving the Spear-It Shop online. (Ms. Burns will be leading this group)

• There’s a lot to think about and do before we can start.
  • What supplies do we need to buy
  • How will we ship/deliver items
  • Improving collection of photos
  • Adding inventory to website

Now for your homework. Sign up for slack if you haven’t already. (http://invite.teamelite48.com/) Log in to slack and click on the + next to channels. Join the following channels according to your interests. If you want to be a part of the Game Design Challenge, add that channel. If you want to participate in the Innovation Challenge, add that channel, etc…..

NEXT!!! Make sure that you read the manual for the tasks that you’re participating in. (https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/competition-manual-qa-system) The leader(s) of each of these challenges will communicate to the team in that channel and set up remote meetings.
Theses are the channels you’ll want to join:

• 2021-innovation-challenge
• 2021-at-home-challenges
• 2021-game-design-challenge
• 2021-chairmans-award
• 2021-spear-it_shop

FINALLY Give these challenges 100% Maximum Effort. This season will be what you make of it.

2020 was……different. What will 2021 bring? We will soon find out.

The 2021 FRC Kickoff is next on the calendar. January 9th, 12pm. Team 48 will have a virtual kickoff, as will many others. We’ll start our kickoff at 11:30am and then watch the live stream together at noon. We can discuss what we learned for a little while after the webcast ends, but this year’s event will not be long. The team leaders will meet in the days following the kickoff and then we’ll have another virtual team meeting to discuss what the rest of our season will look like.

FIRST has already released:

• The Game Design Challenge
  • Registered teams will design their own FIRST Robotics Competition game using real-world, virtual, or hybrid design elements, and compete for judged awards. Winning concepts will be considered for use in future official games. More information during Kickoff.
• The Innovation Challenge presented by Qualcomm
  • Registered teams will identify a real-world problem related to this season’s theme, FIRST® GAME CHANGERS powered by Star Wars: Force for Change, design a solution, build a business model, and deliver a pitch to compete with other FIRST Robotics Competition teams for judged awards. More information during Kickoff.
• Infinite Recharge @ Home
  • Teams show off what their robots and drivers can do in a skills challenge based on the 2020 INFINITE RECHARGE game. Scores are posted, and teams virtually compete against each other for the Skills Challenge Awards.
  • Teams illustrate their robot’s technical qualities by sharing information with judges remotely in competition for traditional robot-based awards. Teams can participate with or without access to their robot.
• Chairman’s Award, Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, Dean’s List Award
  • Our region (The region formerly known as WOW, Now the Upper Ohio River Region) will compete for 1 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, 3 Chariman’s Awards, and 6 Dean’s List Finalist Awards.

Please check Slack, Remind, and Teams on Saturday for a link to join our virtual kickoff.

Hi Everyone! We’re back…..sorta.

I’m holding a virtual full team meeting on Monday, November 16, 2020 @ 8pm on Microsoft Teams. Check Teams, Slack, or remind for the link.

Here’s the meeting agenda

Saturday mornings are a great time to learn about safety and work in the Shop!

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