Interview questions for videos

• What is First Tech Challenge?
• What is your team name?
• How does your robot work so far?
• How do you plan to improve the robot?
• What can people do to support your team?

Short: What is First Tech Challenge?

• What is First Tech Challenge?
• First Tech Challenge is a robotics competition for 7th through 12th graders.
• You have to build and program a robot to play in a robot game.
• There's a different game every year.
• This year, the main way to score points is by getting these balls, called artifacts, into your alliance's goal.
• The game is played with 2 alliances of two robots each.
• so there will be four robots playing on this 12 foot by 12 foot field during a game.
• The match starts off with 30 seconds of autonomous period where the robot runs using pre-programmed logic.
• Then there are 2 minutes of teleop period where the robot can be remote controlled by drivers.
• We hope you'll follow and subscribe to support our team!

Short: How our bot works

• This is our First Tech Challenge robot.
• It's based on a starter bot from a company called GoBilda.
• A starter bot is a robot that you can build from a kit using instructions,
• and that can do the basic things necessary to play the game.
• The most important thing for a robot to do is to drive around!
• This robot uses what's called a tank drive.
• It has a different motor powering these two wheels,
• So if they both turn the same direction the robot will drive straight
• If they turn in opposite directions the robot will spin around
• The robot can be pretty fast!
• A human player can load 3 artifacts into the robot when it's in the loading zone.
• When the robot is ready to launch an artifact, the flywheel spins up to speed
• and then these two servos spin these wheels to feed an artifact into the launcher
• and the artifact shoots up and into the goal
• The starter bot is meant to be a base that can help teams get up and running quickly,
• and that teams can adapt and improve upon.
• We've made a few changes already and have plenty of other ideas
• We'll talk about those more in future videos
• Remember to like, subscribe, and follow to help support our team. Thanks!

Short: How you can support our team

• How can you help support our robotics team?
• Money!
• Give us money!
• Robots are kind of expensive.
• So we need money!
• OK, but we're not actually expecting everyone to donate money to our team.
• One easy way to help out is to follow us on all the social media platforms.
• You can find links to them all on our website at wccarobotics.github.io
• Liking our videos and commenting on them also helps
• Tell us what you think or ask us questions!
• This will help our videos reach more people,
• which could help us win the Reach award at the championship tournament
• Another way to help support our team is to volunteer
• You could be an assistant coach,
• and you don't need to know anything about robotics or engineering.
• You can also be a mentor for our team
• A mentor is someone with expertise in a specific area that they can help us with
• That area could be something engineering related like programming, computer aided design, or custom fabrication.
• But there are also a lot of non-technical areas where mentors could help us:
  • project management
  • fundraising
  • marketing
  • social media
  • brainstorming and creative problem solving
• We hope you're excited about our team.
• Remember to follow us on social media
• And consider volunteering as a mentor or assistant coach
• And if you'd like to donate to our team, we certainly appreciate that as well!

Short: Improving the GoBilda starter bot