
17-12-2013, 12:56
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Always a MidKnight Inventor.
 FRC #1923 (The MidKnight Inventors)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Rookie Year: 1992
Location: West Windsor, NJ
Posts: 1,584
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Re: FIRST Class of 2014, Where are we going?
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Originally Posted by Gregor
Did I read that correctly?
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Originally Posted by AcesJames
Gregor,
Libby is absolutely correct. Clarkson has an incredibly unique setup for our FIRST mentors. Aside from Team 229, which is comprised of about 50 HS students from 2 schools, 2 HS teachers, and 20ish active Clarkson mentors (did I mention our shop space is at Clarkson too?), we have a suite-style dormitory for FIRST Alumni and Mentors. Currently our housing is a single floor with 20 students (12 freshmen and 8 sophomores), but we have plans to occupy up to 3 floors next year with 60 total students.
Each dorm room holds two people and is connected to one other room through a bathroom (2 people per room, 4 per bathroom). All the rooms face inward toward a central lounge which has (among other things) a 60" TV, a workstation computer, many laptops, some field components, and whiteboards for studying/mentoring.
Our residents are not only FRC mentors, but also JFLL, FLL, and FTC mentors on the weekends. We provide coaches clinics (our students coach other local adult coaches) to 18 FTC teams and 24 FLL teams, host our own FTC and FLL tournaments and scrimmages, and even travel around Northern NY in our robotics van doing demonstrations with quadcopters, FRC robots, humanoid robots, etc.
Feel free to PM Libby or myself with any questions you might have.
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James nailed it - but the best part is, you don't HAVE to live 'on the floor' to be a part of FIRST or its community at Clarkson. There are tons of FIRSTers on campus involved at many different levels with Clarkson's/the NNY Robotics Institute's activities. We also support each other, with upperclassmen making sure to take the newer students under their wing and help them adjust to school. It's a pretty awesome community at CU. I am honored that some of these wonderful rising-star mentors and volunteers consider me their friend, colleague, and 'second mom'. That's the way Clarkson is - welcoming and friendly. Just like FIRST. 
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Libby Kamen Team 1923: The MidKnight Inventors
2006-2009: Founder, Captain, Operator, Regional Champion.
2010-Always: Proud Alumni, Mentor & Drive Coach. 2015 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award.
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229: Division By Zero / 4124: Integration by Parts
2010-2013: Clarkson University Mentor for FLL, FTC & FRC
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FIRST Partner Associate, United Therapeutics
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