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First things first, if you have not already installed KiCad onto your computer, do so now. The download links can be found at https://kicad-pcb.org/download/. The program should run on pretty much any computer but do note that it will take up around 5GB of space on your drive. Note that this tutorial was written with KiCad version 6.0 in mind and later versions might have slightly changed functionality that may render this tutorial somewhat outdated.
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We will be downloading some symbol libraries from the team’s GitHub to get the parts we need. Since this is not a GitHub tutorial (nag the software lead for this or something), I’ll go through the process quite quickly. If you’re Git-savvy and want to make this quick, just clone Waterloo Rocketry’s electrical_tutorials repo found at https://github.com/waterloo-rocketry/electrical_tutorials. If you’re new to GitHub, don’t worry! While you will probably need to learn the technology at some point in the future, it’s quite easy to get what we currently need done. Simply navigate to the above link on your favorite browser and load the page. On the page, above the file list, click on the 
Download Code button. From its drop-down, click on Download ZIP and a .zip file will download.
Inside the folder within the electrical_tutorials-master.zip file that you downloaded, you will find a few subfolders filled with tutorial files from various years , including the one that you’re you're currently doing. These files may come in handy if you get stuck and want to see the final product to help lead the way. Navigate to ./2022_generic and copy the Tutorial_Footprints.pretty and Tutorial_Symbols.kicad_sym files into the project folder that you have created. The project directory should now look like what's below:
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