Our team is competitive, robotics needs to be your #1 extra-curricular activity. The long-term goal of this team is to prepare kids to join our FIRST Tech Challenge team when they are in 8th or 9th grade. 

We can accommodate a Fall sport but Spring is much harder to handle since this is when most tournaments are. 

If your child is involved in theater, plays in January/February will be an issue. 

Meetings: 

• Team members are required to attend all scheduled meetings outside of school breaks (Fall break, Thanksgiving, and Christmas break). 

• Excessive absences will result in dismissal from the team. 

August to December: 

• 2 90-minutes meetings per week 5 to 6:30pm (days to be determined with the team members)

• Saturday morning: FLL table will be available for kids to work on robot missions from 9 to noon (optional) 

Team members will have homework to do at home: 

• Research for the project

• Work on presentation or posterboard for tournament

• Presentation memorization

January and February: 

• Expect an additional weekly meeting especially the week before tournaments. 

• MLK day and President’s day: additional meetings will be scheduled on those days as they usually fall right before tournaments. 

Team members are required to attend tournaments: 

• 1 local scrimmage in December

• 1 local qualifier in January, 

• State tournament (if qualified). Location to be determined. 

• Team members will also be required to attend a local FTC tournament (either in Sandy or Provo). 

• Team members will attend some outreach events with the FTC team. 

Off-Season:

• This is a year-round team, we still meet from March to July. 

• Meetings may be weekly or every other week depending on the team's wishes (after a break after the end of the season). 

• The off-season is used to learn new skills, participate in outreach events

Behavior:

• Team members are expected to be respectful of their coaches, teammates, other teams and volunteers

• They are expected to work as a team, be willing to listen, and accept others’ ideas. 

• Accept the group decision even if someone else's idea is chosen

• Provide and accept constructive criticism

• Be willing to learn new skills

• Participate in all parts of FLL: project, robot building, and programming, team building activities…

• Be focused and on task during meetings (phones need to stay in bags during meetings)

• Share resources with other members of the team

• Be willing to ask for help

• Be on time to meetings

• Repeated behavior issues will result in dismissal from the team. 

Finances:

• $200 to cover team registration, tournament registration, team shirts, challenge set, supplies for project (If cost is an issue, let us know). Cost may be reduced if we can obtain grants. 

• This goes directly to the team budget, coaches do not profit from the club.

• If the team qualifies they may attend an out-of-state tournament (there are only 2-3 teams that qualify from Utah every year so this is unlikely, especially the first year). Parents will be responsible for their team member’s traveling cost after any fundraising the team may do. 

Communications: 

• Team members are expected to communicate absences in advance to coaches 

• Information for tournaments is sent through emails to team members and parents

• Parents will be added to a group text for quick communication such as last-minute changes or reminders (team members can be added too if desired)

Parents involvement:

• We need a parent to help coach the project part of the team (Team will not start without this) 

• We welcome parents' involvement with the team, you do not need to be technical to help. 

• As much as possible coaches and mentors will provide transportation to local tournaments and other events, however parents may occasionally be asked to help drive. 

• Parents are responsible for transportation to the State Tournament

• kids love to eat :-) We love it when parents refill the snack supply in the robotics room. 

• Parents are welcome to attend meetings at any time 

• Parents will be invited on Friday evening before the tournament to watch the robot missions and judging presentations.