As the only FRC team in Alaska, we often work to host and help with outreach events, often involving our youngers and other FIRST programs. Recently, we hosted the Anchorage FTC Kickoff. We streamed the official FIRST kickoff stream, before having team introductions and icebreakers. We then showed the teams the field that we had built before hand, and allowed the teams to develop strategy based on that view. We then had breakout sessions to further develop game strategy, before playing ‘the robot game,’ where we played a full round of matches where we used people acting in the field instead of using robots, which makes for an interesting simulation of the game and was great for bonding between teams. The teams loved it, and we were glad to provide their kickoff!
