Rookie FIRSTs

Thanks to a number of generous FRC teams, we created this website in our 2011 fall pre-season. A big shout-out to the teams who shared valuable advice to use for the site:

• Libby Kamen
• Girls of Steel, FIRST Team #3504
• The MidKnight Inventors, FIRST Team #1923
• Spartonics, FIRST Team #1503
• AMP’d Robotics, FIRST Team #1708
• Simbotics, FIRST Team #1114
• SWAT, FIRST Team #771
• 12 Volt Bolt, FIRST Team #1557
• Black Knight, FIRST Team #135
• Hauppauge Robotic Eagles, FIRST Team #358
• K-botics, FIRST Team #2809
• Lynbrook Robotics, FIRST Team #846
• Stampede Robotics, FIRST Team #3630
• The Robettes, FIRST Team #2177
• Renee, Founder and President of GOFIRST  and Founder of ACE
• Mad Cows, FIRST Team #3413
• Dirty Mechanics, FIRST Team #3932
• Tiger Robotics, FIRST Team #3164
• Combustion, FIRST Team #1912
• CHS Robolancers, FIRST Team #321
• Quasics Robotics, FIRST Team #2656
• Eaglocity, FIRST Tech Challenge Team #3085
• Metal Jackets, FIRST Team #2068
• The Flaming Chickens, FIRST Team #1540
• Rolling Thunder, FIRST Team #1511
• FRobotics, FIRST Team #4150

You made this website possible!

How to use our website:

• Pages. Click on the links above to find out more information about the Business, Media, Hardware, Software, and Electronics sections of a typical FIRST team.
   
   
• Quick Links. Under each section, there will be “quick links” to sections already on the page. This way you can avoid scrolling through the growing pages.
   
   
• Tips. Tips will be posted daily for the duration of the first weeks of build season. Submit tips by either using the “Suggestions“ or the ”Questions“ links at the top of all the pages. Tips can be about absolutely anything, from mistakes you wish you could have avoided to ways to succeed in areas where you have experience.
  
  
  
• Follow us! If you have a tumblr account, click “follow” in the right hand corner so that you can reblog, comment, and like the posts.
  
  
  
• Send us emails. If you want to follow up on any post privately, or don’t have a tumblr account, email us at rookieFIRSTs@gmail.com.
   
   
• Disqus. If you don’t have a tumblr account, you can still comment on posts by using the Disqus comment box below each post.