Events:2025-12-10-Team Agile Lesson

The DevilBotz are fortunate to be mentored by Sandhiya Krishnan, an experienced Agile Coach. Recently, Sandhiya led an introductory Agile workshop for the team, helping members explore the fundamentals of Agile practices. She later shared her reflections on LinkedIn, which we’ve highlighted here.

As an Agile Coach, I have run many workshops for professionals over the years, but this one felt very special. This week I had the chance to teach Agile and iterative thinking to my beloved high school robotics team, Team 2876 Devilbotz — and it truly hit different.

Using a hands-on LEGO activity, the students learned how to work in short sprints, plan quickly, adapt to changes, communicate as a team, and improve their work with every iteration. What amazed me most was how naturally they picked up the Agile mindset. They understood the value of building in small steps, testing often, and learning fast — the same skills they will need as they prepare for robot build season.

Seeing them connect Agile concepts to real robotics work was inspiring. I have no doubt they will bring this mindset into designing, coding, and building their FRC robot this year.

A huge thank you to my mentor Shyam Kumar for helping me facilitate this powerful workshop. Grateful for this opportunity and proud of this incredible team.

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  Students start the exercise
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  Agile teams working together in a sprint to make the components of the city they were responsible for.
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  After the sprint each team demonstrated the components that they built.
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  The team integrated the components of the city that they built.
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  The final city is reviewed prior to a team retrospective on the activitiy.

Thanks Sandhiya!