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Ken Patton Ken Patton is offline
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seminar volunteer

What a great idea!

For the last few years I have been giving a drive systems seminar before the OCCRA season and at the Novi kickoff. Last year we improved the seminar because Paul Copioli from team 217 took over half of it. We do a good job of covering the fundamentals and making it educational as well as practical.

I think if there were a set of seminars covering all aspects of robot design & development, control systems, team organization, etc., and if they were truly educational (thus giving us some credibility that it was not just a vacation), non-competing teams would want to come to the "FIRST Conference & Championships."

I'd volunteer to give a seminar for something like this.

Another idea, there could be some form of leadership training or activities for students who are interested in leading teams, etc. With all of the bigwigs in town for the event we might be able to steal some of their time and have them give a few speeches or seminars.

Ken
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