Any school on subscription can apply to become a CSWA Provider at
www.solidworks.com/cswa.
If a team designs their robot in SolidWorks and has a teacher or mentor who will proctor the CSWA exam, then the SolidWorks EDU team will provide the $99 CSWA exam at no charge. The CSWA exam is given in 10 langugaes.
If you want to take the CSWA exam, then you must prepare. It is not easy.
1. You must know how to read an engineering drawing.
2. You must be able to create a part/assembly accurately from the engineering drawing and understand how to calculate mass properties.
3. You must understand design intent so you can modify dimensions of a part/assembly without messing up the model.
Tips: Take the sample exam at
www.solidworks.com/cswa and review the cswa tip videos on youtube. Also, there are tips posted on our
www.Facebook.com/SolidWorksEducation page.
The CSWA is the first of 8 SolidWorks exams that you can take over your professional career. CSWA can differentiate you in a very competitive job market or a college application. You will also need the design, manufacturing, and presentation experience too. The CSWA exam is a part of your portfolio of many tools and skills.
We are fulling hundreds of requests now for robot teams. Our sponsorship has opened at
www.solidworks.com/StudentSponsorship.
Give me some time and I will set up an automatic process for a team to apply for CSWA sponsorship too. For now, go design, build, and test robots to prepare.
And congratulations to Rion Atkinson for passing the CSWA and for creating the beautiful model on our current certicate. Marie