2025 FIRST Forums @ Vincennes University Sessions

Join veteran FTC judges, mentors, etc. as they answer your questions and discuss best practices for preparing your students for pit judging, presentations, and more.

The goal of this session is to inform and inspire others to get involved in FIN’s volunteer community. Panelists will discuss the many aspects

of volunteering—its impact, rewards, and ways others can get involved. Panel Moderator:  Lori Langley

Failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) an industrial practice used to design equipment with breakdowns in mind.

Tired of running your program on spreadsheets & sticky notes? Come learn about GatherPack, an open-source organization management software suite developed by Brad Thompson & some of the students on 461, how to use it on your team, and how you can get involved in the development work.

Thanks to the Vincennes University Center for Applied Robotics and Automation for their support of this event!

Join FRC 1741 Red Alert Robotics Alum, Jacob McCabe as he will work with teams to create a basic structure for modernizing your codebase.

In this session we will talk about how to have good programming practices in collaborative projects. This elaborates on how teams should write their code in ways that make it easier and more efficient to work on large programming projects, such as a robot codebase. 

Come learn about the new initiative to have South West Indiana FIRST teams share best practices, resources, etc.  Jason and LeeAnne Maxwell will be hosting this roundtable discussion for coaches and students to learn more.

This session will be presented at/streamed from Vincennes

Let's talk student & mentor leadership development, non-profit management, and pipeline building!