Beech Grove High School Robotics Coach

Beech Grove City Schools; Beech Grove (IN); Hybrid; USD 3,000 - 6,000; Part time

Job summary

Beech Grove City Schools seeks a Beech Grove High School Robotics Coach to lead LEGO robotics teams for the 2026-27 FIRST Tech Challenge season. The role focuses on guiding students in eight to twelve member teams, planning practices, and driving teams toward regional qualifiers.

You will collaborate with the building principal, communicate with families, organize parent volunteers, and ensure a safe, inclusive, student-led team culture while managing registrations and rosters.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in coding and robotics.
• Appreciation for FIRST Robotics and teamwork.
• Ability to organize volunteers and lead student teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and guide HS students in FIRST Tech Challenge season.
• Communicate with parents, students, and robotics director about progress and needs.
• Organize parent volunteers for practice sessions.
• Schedule practices to maximize student participation.
• Promote safe, inclusive, student-led team environment.
• Supervise progress and foster student leadership across teams.
• Assist with team registration and roster management.
• Assist with event registration.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Coding experience

FIRST Robotics familiarity

Volunteer coordination

Confidentiality

Job description

Beech Grove High School Robotics Coach

Reports To:

Building Principal

Job Summary:

Introduce the FIRST Lego Tech Challenge for the current season, guide students in teams of eight to twelve, and coach the teams towards a successful attempt at the Regional Qualifier. Lego Robotics teams will focus on designing and building a robot that can accomplish a variety of tasks, robot coding, and team cooperative skills. The Lead Mentor must be able to guide each team through time management, project management, leadership roles, and conflict resolution.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee and guide students in grades 9-12 in successfully competing in the 2026-27 FIRST Tech Challenge season
• Communicate regularly with the parents, students, and robotics director about team progress, needs, and possible issues.
• Organize parent volunteers to help during team practice
• Organize practice schedules that allow for maximum time working with the team for the maximum number of students on each team.
• Safe, productive, healthy, inclusive team-based approach at all times.
• Supervise the teams' progress while maintaining an environment of student leadership on all teams.
• Assist with team registration and manage team roster
• Assist with event registration

Competencies/Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Ability to patiently work with high school students in a non-classroom setting.
• Experience in coding
• Appreciation for FIRST Robotics
• Willingness to delegate tasks and organize volunteer support
• Maintain confidentiality and respects professional boundaries.