Scouting & Strategy
Turn match data into winning strategy.
Scouting & Strategy is the intelligence branch of an FRC team: the people and systems that observe every robot at an event, turn those observations into reliable data, and use that data to make decisions that win matches. This department designs scouting systems (paper, apps, or QR-based tools like QRScout), tracks the right game-specific metrics, blends collected data with public analytics from The Blue Alliance and Statbotics, builds picklists for alliance selection, and writes the pre-match and in-match plans the drive team executes. Strong scouting routinely separates a good robot from a winning alliance.
Curriculum
A start-here primer that teaches the spreadsheet and basic-statistics skills every scout needs before collecting or analyzing FRC match data. You will learn how a spreadsheet actually works, how to summarize numbers with averages and spread, and how to turn those summaries into smart alliance and pick-list decisions. No prior experience required.