Competition Time
The name of the 30-second Match Period in robots must operate and react only to sensor inputs and pre-programmed commands.
What is the Autonomous Period?
The length and width of the Playing Field.
What is 12' x 12'?
Provided the tournament has more than 20 teams competing with one another, the number of teams on each Alliance during an Elimination Match.
What is 3?
With this web-based tool, team members can download a STEP file and learn additional details about commercial parts and components.
What is OnShape?
The number of student members of Team 13643.
What is 12?
Note: the "Team" also comprises: coaches (Dan & Alex), mentors (Anthony, Ashwin, Ben, and possibly Jake G), and students. Team total = 18
The 2-minute Match time period in which students may operate the robots
What is the Driver-Controlled Period?
These Blocks in the FTC Block Editor can be used to test and debug software/coding errors. The name of this Block comes from a term that means the automated collection, measurement, and transmission of data from a remote source.
What is telemetry?
During the Elimination Matches, four Alliances are formed (Alliance #1, Alliance #2, Alliance #3, and Alliance #4). The seeding format of Alliances #1, #2, #3, and #4 in the Semi-Finals.
What is #1 plays #4
and #2 plays #3?
This document type in our 3D design tool may include a collection of part files, which may or may not be mated.
What is an assembly? (or sub-assembly)
The student whose birthday is Christmas Day.
Who is Gebriel?
The last 30 seconds of the 2-minute Match Period.
What is the End Game?
What are Appendices B (RIS) and C (FIS)?
(NOTE: p. 19 of GM 1 has an error. It says Appendices A and B. Our team should write FIRST and politely point out the error.)
The penalty for violating Rule C12, wherein a team or a team member sets up their own Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless communication network.
What is disqualification of the entire team?
(And the team must leave the venue!)
(NOTE: no two-way radios either)
The minimum height of each digit in the Team Number Display.
What is 2.5"?
(Did you know our Team # can be illuminated?)
Discovery, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, Fun, and this FIRST Core Value expresses FIRST's philosophies of Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition.
What is Teamwork?
According to GM 1, the minimum number of Qualification Matches played by each team at a Tournament.
What is 5?
(GM 1 says 5 or 6 Qual Matches, as determined by the tournament director)
Rule C15 states that team members must wear ANSI Z87.1 certified safety glasses. And this is what ANSI stands for
What is the American National Standards Institute?
Rank the following awards in Order of Advancement from highest to lowest: Think Award, Innovate Award, Inspire Award, Connect Award, and Winning Alliance (2nd Team selected).
Inspire Award >> Winning Alliance (2nd Team selected) >> Think Award >> Connect Award >> Innovate Award
While not all-inclusive, the name of the document that highlights parts an FTC team may and may not use during its robot build.
What is the 2023-2024 Legal and Illegal Parts List?
(Note: I put a link to this in Slack on Tuesday, since it can be difficult to find. Did you at least glance at it?) (Also, GM 1 is the most all-inclusive source.)
The youngest student on Team 13643.
Who is Ved?
(Who's been alive just under 6 million minutes; or ~11.5 yrs)
The name of the location in which only one student from an Alliance can approach the referees to question or dispute scoring in a Match.
What is the "question box?"
The name of the TensorFlow tool provided by FIRST to accomplish Object Detection.
What is the Machine Learning Toolchain?
(TFOD = TensorFlow Object Detection)
GM 1 identifies the scouting approach of FRC Team #365, the Miracle Workerz. List 2 of the 4 information types they use during scouting.
What are [2 of]: capabilities (Robot/Team do & not do?), strategies (R/T during match? How do they play?), performance (R/T How well? Strgths/ weaknesses?), and autonomous mode (What does it do? Are there mult. options?)
The visual fiducial system, useful for a wide variety of tasks including augmented reality, robotics, and camera calibration.
What is an AprilTag?
An optional award given at a Tournament for a Team who unique efforts, performance, or team dynamics merit recognition.
What is the Judges' Choice Award?
(Discuss "team dynamics")