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Upcoming Robotics' Workshops
***Upcoming Robotics Workshops***
All teams should send representatives (teachers, professional mentors, students, or parents) as there will be a plethora of useful information for your team and for designing and building your robot!!!! Drive System Workshop with Glenn Thoroughman of Bionic Bulldogs, Team 60, Kingman Arizona: Saturday, November 16, at Chatsworth High School, 10 AM - ?? SCRRF Robotics Workshop Day at California State University, Northridge November 23, 9 AM – 4 PM: morning and afternoon sessions in team organization and technical information for robot design and building. SMC Pneumatics Workshop at SMC in Tustin December 7, details to follow. |
Greetings Robotics Enthusiasts,
There are two very exciting and informative robotics workshops for the next 2 Saturdays. Saturday, Nov. 16 Chatsworth HS, 10 AM – whenever we finish Glenn Thoroughman from Bionic Bulldogs Team #60, Kingman, Arizona, will be here to teach and share his expertise on drive systems. Glenn and his team have won all of the regional and national design awards for the amazing robots they have built over the years. There motto, “If you want to run with the big dogs, you have to shift gears,” gives you an idea of the robotics technology he will cover at the workshop. Please bring your lunch and meet at Chatsworth HS at 10 AM this Saturday for a very informative workshop. Teachers, students, parents, or professional mentors are welcome. Please RSVP with your team #, school, and # of attendees to wwooten@lausd.k12.ca.us by Friday. Directions: Take the 210, 5, or 405 Fwys to the 118 Fwy east, exit at DeSoto, turning left (South) onto DeSoto, travel to the light at Devonshire, turning left on Devonshire, travel to the first light at Lurline, turning right on Lurline, travel past the first stop sign to the entrance to the school, turning right into the school. The first bungalow on the immediate left just as you enter the school is the V- building. Park and go around the V building to the front and enter room V-303. Saturday, Nov. 23 CSUN, Engineering complex, 8 AM – 5 PM Park in lot B-6 or anywhere near the Engineering complex. There is no parking enforcement on weekends, so there is no charge to park anywhere on campus. 8 – 9 AM Registration (CSUN Engineering organizations will be selling coffee, bagels, donuts, etc.) 9 AM -12 Noon Session I 12 – 1 PM Lunch (box lunches available for $3: turkey & cheese, ham & cheese, or cheese sandwich, chips, fruit, cookie, and drink) 1 – 4 PM Session II 4 – 5 PM Poster session Session I topics Session II topics CAD Computer Animation Drive System Drive System Pneumatics Pneumatics Electronics/Control Electronics/Control System - Beginner System – Experienced Arms & Lifts Arms & Lifts Organization/Chairman’s Financial/Fundraising/Chairman’s Award Award Spirit ideas Spirit ideas Other Robotics programs Other Robotics programs Each team will get 3 tickets to all morning and all afternoon sessions. Each team should have one designated individual to pick up the team registration packet. Please arrange to have your attendees meet during registration to distribute the session tickets so that you have people attending all of the sessions which are of interest to your team. Again, teachers, students, parents, and professional mentors are invited. We would like to ask all teams that have video capabilities to bring video cameras and tripods to tape the sessions. If we have enough video set ups, we can record all of the sessions as a resource for all teams. Please let us know if you can help with video recording. Simultaneously, there will be a FIRST LEGO League tournament going on in the Engineering quad. You will find that event for kids 9-14 yrs quite exciting and entertaining. Veteran Teams We are asking each veteran team to bring their past robot(s) and to prepare a poster session in which they can share a design feature, fabrication technique, or team organization/spirit/fundraising idea to share with all of the other teams. Please have something to provide for all of the attending teams either on disk, CD, or hard copy that they can take home with them. This can be anything that you think will assist any of the other teams, especially the rookie teams. If all teams volunteer, we can share the responsibility and workload, and provide great resources for all teams. In addition, we are looking for veteran teams to assist with some of the sessions. Please volunteer for one of the following: Drive System: a team that is planning to attend the Nov. 16 workshop at Chatsworth who could present the information that Glenn Thoroughman will deliver along with any other drive system information they have. Electronics for Beginners: how the IF control system works with default program, how to wire it, which items require relays and which require speed controllers, and how it all works; making a board with the various components hooked up to the control system is a great visual aid. Electronics for Experienced: some additional electronics that can be incorporated along with programming techniques to customize and improve the control system over the default program. Team Spirit Ideas: info about uniforms, swaps, buttons, and team spirit ideas. Please contact Wendy Wooten at wwooten@lausd.k12.ca.us to volunteer to assist with these workshops and to advise us as to whether you can help with video recording. Please bring all items which you plan to share with other teams to the Thursday, Nov. 21 SCRRF meeting at Beach Cities Robotics, 7 PM. You can come as early as 6 PM to see their team meeting in the robotics shop. |
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