Welcome 1 Intro Video https www youtube comwatch

Welcome! 1

Intro Video • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=W 8 e 07 n 3 JQY 2

FIRST is. . . ® Inspiring youth to become science & technology leaders & innovators, by engaging them in exciting, experiential, Mentor- and project-based programs that teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills, inspire innovation, and foster well-rounded life capabilities. 3

"To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders. ” -Dean Kamen Founder 4

Gracious Professionalism 5

Scholarships 6

Mentoring =“Play with the Pros” 7

The technology of FRC Real world applications use the same technology found in FRC robots 8

Nexans Spider 9

National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) US Department of Energy Challenge: To develop a power, vibration monitoring, and control solution for study of Wind Turbine mechanical systems. System needs to be advanced, flexible, and cost effective 10

Applied Education • Mission is to INSPIRE, not TRAIN • AND look at what is involved: – Math (algebra, geometry, trig, calculus) – Science (physics, chemistry, experimentation) – Language arts (writing, public speaking) – Business (marketing, PR, fundraising) – Finance (accounting) – Computer Science (programming, 3 D animation) NO TESTS NO TEXT BOOKS – Fabrication (woodworking, metalworking) – Mentorship: Working side-by-side with professionals – Teamwork 11

College/Career Impact – Average starting salary engineers $55, 000 – $80, 000 – Average engineering student will field 5 -6 job offers – On average 6% of colleges students are engineering students – Currently 68% of job offers coming into campus are for engineers Source: Brandeis University, Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management 12

This is not a Robot • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=mt. E 6 V a 6 o. Oh. U 13

Why Robots? FIRST is NOT about students building robots FIRST robotics builds: • technology literacy • intuitive problem solvers • collaborative innovators 14

21 st Century Learning Rigorous and Relevant Future-Think Highly-Skilled Workforce Meaningful and Well-Paying Jobs Project-Based Community as a Laboratory 15

Advice from veteran teams… 16

Team Building • Teams will work together to create a complete bridge. Each team will be split into two subteams. • Each sub-team will build half a bridge each. • At the end of the time you need to put your bridges together to create your full bridge build. • You will be separated during the challenge and can only communicate verbally to ensure that each build meets the design specification. • You have just 30 minutes to complete the challenge. 17

Reflection • What did you find most difficult about his challenge? How did you overcome that? • What did you do well? How did you decide on that method? • Who was responsible for communicating the design between the teams? If you had more than one person, did you find this difficult? • Did you select a leader? Why was leadership important during the task? • How did you work out the key responsibilities for the challenge? Did you delegate based on strengths and weaknesses? • Did you miscommunicate at any point during the challenge? How did you get back on track? 18

Team Structure • Successful companies have a management or core group that oversees multiple project specific subgroups working toward the common goal. • Each FRC team has its own personality, organization, and strengths; and each decides its work distribution and methods. • The obvious working groups of the team are the robot design and build subgroups, but team management, travel, financial, creative writing, marketing, and artistic groups can support your team throughout the season. 19

Some general things to think about • Keep the groups small and project oriented. – Remember that the build team subgroups will have to interface often to make sure all mechanisms will mesh. • Consider rotating roles to strengthen team members’ knowledge and experience. – Find out what each member does well, and put each on a subgroup dealing with that skill so that group has strong assets with lots to teach. Then put these same students with groups from whom they can learn new skills. • Train younger team members so they can replace graduates next season. 20