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Re: What will you be developing during offseason?
Ways to raise money for our program. Our state grants are expiring and despite numerous hours put into sponsorship and grant proposals to corporations that support other teams or STEM education in general, we have garnered only rejection letters. Efforts to raise money locally are difficult at best as we have a population of 2,361 (2013) and an estimated per capita income in $17,964 (2012).
Our "build tools" are nothing more than a few hand tools and a sawzall. We still use the original 2go pc from our rookie year (2014) and I've learned it doesn't perform well with a bot mounted camera for real time imaging. Procuring better tools and a more powerful laptop is high on our priority list.
I am not an educator. I work a full time job (while raising two kids of my own), I am the only adult in the program and Recycle Rush was my rookie season. I'd like to expand my teams knowledge to include use of sensors (distance and vision) and develop a solid autonomous programming base. Can anyone recommend a fun and inexpensive project list we can retrofit our bot with to build proficiency with sensors?
My personal offseason objective is to build a better knowledge base in engineering and programming. We use Labview. Can anyone recommend resources to further that objective? A crash course for a rookie coach/mentor?
Thanks for your help
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