How to Coach Student Robotics
(and not go crazy)

This is a a comprehensive resource for coaches to better manage their robotics team. Great for training rookie coaches, and for veteran coaches looking for ways to make their lives easier and up their game.

How to manage student and parent expectations:

• Ways to communicate with your team and parents/guardians

• Financial obligations for each family

• Volunteer support expectations from family

• The season calendar

• Practice dates and locations

• Alternative Practice Models

• Attendance expectations of each team member

• How often to expect unscheduled or extended practices

• Skills and concepts your students are expected to learn

• Protective/safety gear and training requirements

• Student behavior expectations at practice

• Student behavior expectations at a competition

• What roles students will have at a competition

• Communicating at a competition

• How to use Practice Summary communications to reinforce these expectations

Tools for team development:

• Models for roles and responsibilities

• Options for season kickoff and game reveal

• Options for game evaluation and robot brainstorming

• Everyone contributes to the game evaluation and brainstorming

• Everyone is exposed to every role and process of developing a robot

• Everyone gets to try the role they are most interested in a low impact way

• Veteran students to become mentors

• Every sub-team regularly communicates progress

• Establishing regular opportunities for the team to reflect

• Developing a sustainable team model

And a more in-depth look at the step-by-step guide to brainstorming and game strategy material covered in the original workbook edition.

Includes graphic organizer forms to manage your team and robot development!