Best 2052 KnightKrawler Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 080: Mental Health First Aid (2025-10-26) 1:29:17

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In the second of our roundtable sessions organized by FIRST, we discuss the importance of mental health. Mick Lynch, a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and a dedicated clinical and sport psychologist at Winona State University, shares his advice for approaching mental health and normalizing the importance of taking care of ourselves an…

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EP 079: Get to know Team 2472 Centurions (2025-10-19) 1:27:15

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Team 2472 shares their impressive leadership process and structure.

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Ep 078: Building a Circle of Safety and Support (2025-10-12) 1:34:01

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What do we do when we observe something inappropriate? Do we directly engage? Do we wait and address the problem later? Do we refer the situation to someone else? What are the ways to deal with situations we encounter in FRC and everyday life.

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Ep 077: Leveraging MinneTrials to Improve your Team (2025-10-05) 1:25:46

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Ep 076: Get To Know Team 7028 The Binary Battalion (2025-06-01) 1:27:12

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. Team 7028 The Binary Battalion shares about their team members, how they run their team, the nonprofit that supports them. They talk about their community outreach with their tank bot t-shirt cannon. 7028 talks about the pros and cons of being a program of commun…

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Ep 075: Get To Know Team 2129 Ultraviolet! (2025-05-25) 1:31:39

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. This week 2129 Ultraviolet shares about their team history, make up, dual captain and leadership system, methods of recruitment, youth outreach programs, how they use minitrials for team training, their season flow, process, meetings, etc. There was also a lot of…

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Ep 074: Gov't Relations + Advocacy (2025-05-18) 1:21:13

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. Aaron 2847 MegaHertz mentor lead a discussion on how FRC teams can start advocacy efforts with their local and state government or industry leaders. Aaron talks about remembering overall goals of FIRST - beyond building a robot. Gaining skills in advocacy and bus…

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Ep 073: Get To Know Team 2530 Inconceivable! (2025-05-04) 1:25:58

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. 5! 10! 15! 20! 2530!!! This week Inconceivable! shares about the make up of their team, how they recruit and onboard new team members, the structure of their subteams and functions, how the team handles communications on discord, failure reporting with FEMA - and…

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Ep 072: Preparing For Champs! (2025-04-06) 1:41:34

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors to discuss the topic of getting ready for FIRST FRC World Champs. This episode was recorded at the end of the REEFSCAPE game season in 2025 but takes a more global approach to generally how to plan for your team to manage the Champs experience, specifically gettin…

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Ep 071: Get To Know Team 2847 MegaHertz (2025-03-23) 1:23:41

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. Team 2847 MegaHertz shares about their team, specifically: about the teams overview, structure and history. They tour their shop space, and talk about the MegaHertz build season approach and schedule. 2847 also talks about their mentorship of 3 Vex IQ teams, 2 FL…

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Ep 070: Open Table (Finances, Robot Changes, Programming & Practice Spaces) (2025-03-16) 1:25:21

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. This week is an open table where the group brought up whatever was on their mind, ranging from team finances, changing the robot midstream, robot programming, and finding practice space.

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Ep 069: Scouting and Strategy (2025-03-09) 1:26:48

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors to discuss how teams approach scouting and alliance strategy.

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Ep 068: REEFSCAPE Lessons After Week 1 Competition Recap 1:34:40

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors to discuss what teams took away from their week 1 REEFSCAPE 2025 competitions. Lessons learned, and what they are looking at going forward in the competition season.

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Ep 067: Advanced Autonomous Programming Using FRC PathPlanner (2025-02-23) 1:44:43

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Ep 066: Robot Inspection NEW RULES! (2025-02-16) 59:38

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. John Stratis team mentor and seasoned FIRST Robot Inspector reviews the most common reasons teams fail inspection and what you can do to avoid failing and have a successful robot inspection. John highlights the key new rules from 2025 including that weigh in is n…

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Ep 065: 2025 Changes to Alliance Selection + Point Based Advancement (2025-02-02) 1:31:26

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Ep 064: New Bumper Rules for FIRST FRC (2025-01-26) 1:23:19

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An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. Recorded in January of 2025 this discussion centers on the new FIRST rules for bumpers published in 2024. John Stratis of Team 2177 The Robettes leads the discussion. John is also a FIRST robot inspector. He reviews a brief history of bumpers - none were required…