Add minutes for 2025-01-21

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+# Kit Team Meeting 2025-01-21
+
+## Attendees
+
+### Present
+
+- Terra Barber
+- Will Barber
+- Karina Kwiatek
+- Alex Colville
+- Jake Howard
+
+### Apologies
+
+- Keith Emerson
+
+## Topics
+
+### Mentoring
+
+- Mentoring is going well
+    - Some teams are getting more responsive
+- Need updates from some mentors
+
+### Competitor resources
+
+- Volunteer CTA has been sent out
+- It's January, people may not want to do much (recovering from holidays)
+- We should document using the simulator on a Chromebook
+
+### Simulator
+
+- No update needed
+
+### Kit issues
+
+- Battery leads
+    - Probably team pulling on them too hard
+    - We should tell them to not pull the battery out by the wires
+    - Wrapping the connector in tape doesn't fix the problem
+        - Need to wrap the contacts separately
+            - Bridging them is the actual risk
+        - Can they push the insulation back up (and then tape?)
+- Simulator on Windows/ARM
+    - Not really supported
+    - We'll tell them to use another platform
+
+### Competition
+
+#### Helpdesk
+
+- Karina will be there, but not "Head of"
+- Safety checks
+    - There's a document. Needs some review
+    - Needs to be clear so can be done by anyone at helpdesk
+    - Publish the list on the docs for teams to reference before the competition
+- Regs checks
+    - Can fall back to rules (don't want them to)
+- Subject matter expert list
+    - Don't bother with
+    - Defer to head of helpdesk for most things, who can escalate further
+- Overnight battery loans
+    - Where are they handed back in
+        - Reception
+            - Batteries should be handed in when signing in
+        - Will need someone to bring batteries to helpdesk(s) so they can be put on charge
+    - Helpdesk system
+        - Flagged during check-in process
+        - Currently not tracked, but a goal
+- Helpdesk system must work well on mobile
+    - There will probably be at least 1 laptop on reception anyway
+- Volunteers should being their own laptops (or alike)
+- Kit services VM
+    - Karina to set up closer to the time
+
+#### Kit return
+
+- We have the return list, just need to drop the lists
+- How can we help newer volunteers easily identify boards
+    - Pictures?
+    - Kit identifier cheat cheet (separate to checklist)
+
+### V5 kit?
+
+- No updates in a while
+- Pending vision for the charity to ensure the kit design meets it
+- Also pending money to buy the things
+- We don't want to provide a kit which doesn't allow exploring electronics
+
+### Other
+
+- [Issues in minutes repo (action points from previous meetings)](https://github.com/srobo/kit-team-minutes/issues)
+    - ACTION Sort this out
+- [SR(A)WN](https://github.com/srobo/srawn/issues)
+- After meeting doing
+- AOB?
+    
+- Thank Yous and Well Dones
+