Coach Corner: firstinspires.org and Mentor Resources

Did you know that FIRST® recently launched a new website and Learning Management System? If you visit firstinspires.org you will see a whole new website layout! 

There are several cool new features for mentors that werent there before so we want to share a couple of tips and tricks about the new site. 

Tip 1: Coach and Mentor Checklist

The Coach and Mentor Checklist page provides a series of steps and resoruces coaches and mentors can review to help them navigate the season. These steps are program agnostic and focus on providing the initial startup all FIRST coaches and mentors need! 

Tip 2: FIRST Tech Challenge Team Management Resources

This is a coach and student facing resource page that provides resources on budget, fundraising and so much more! 

Tip 3: Mentor Ready

FIRST also rolled out a new Learning Management System (LMS) which has courses volunteers and mentors can take to get prepared for the season! 

To check out the courses available you can:

• Login at https://training.firstinspires.org/learn/dashboard
• Or, you can click the button for FIRST Training that can be found on your firstinspires.org dashboard. 

No matter how you get there, you can find the Mentor Ready training course, which is in an introductory course mentors and coaches can take to learn more about FIRST and anticipated steps in the season. Not only is there Mentor Ready but you can also discover recommended trainings, guided experiences, data privacy trainings, and so much more!  

While we don't have specifics on what other trainings to expect through time, we anticipate that FIRST will continue to build on the training catalog.