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Running the season

The Plan

Plan is where your team's actual work lives — build tasks, paperwork, anything with an owner and a due date. A coach or student can add to it; everyone sees only the items they're allowed to see.

Add a work item

Click New work item at the top of Plan. Give it a title, a short summary of what "done" looks like, a due date, and who's responsible. The Visible to row controls who besides the coach can see it — a parent or mentor sees nothing unless you add their role.

The New work item form filled in with a title, summary, due date, and owner

The board

Switch to Board to see everything by status — Overdue, This week, Upcoming, Done. Each card shows who owns it and its due date; open one to see the full detail, dependencies, and evidence.

The Plan board with two work items in the Upcoming column

Timeline shows the same work items laid out against the calendar instead, alongside the team's official FIRST dates.

A work item's life

Every item moves through the same track:

  1. To do — created, waiting on the owner.
  2. In progress — the owner clicked Start.
  3. Submitted for review — the owner wrote a note on what's finished (and pasted links to the evidence — a doc, a CAD file, a photo) and sent it to the coach.
  4. Done — the coach marked it done, or sent it back with a note if it's not there yet.

A work item in progress: the status track, the items it's waiting on, and its activity

A submitted item lands on the coach's Approvals list — that's the only place decisions get made, so nothing gets marked done by accident.

It only reflects what's actually there

The note at the top of Plan is literal: this is your team's own work records plus FIRST's official dates. The AI assistant can summarize the plan for you, but it never edits or reprioritizes it — every change comes from a person.