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Unread 10-08-2005, 22:50
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On to my 16th year in FRC
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Re: "Familiar Looking" Table-Top Robotics Project

Looks good. I wish more schools would get robotics into their ME programs. I will be entering my 5th quarter and haven't come across anything like this yet (in a class). The only class project I've had so far was a rubber band powered car competition (which I won, of course) to travel 12 feet in as little time as possible. At an open house day, I saw some 4th and 5th year students demonstrading an EDU-bot project they worked on. This kind of worries me that ME students aren't being introduced to the principles of design, fabrication, assembly, and contruction (mostly with regard to robotics applications) until very late in their college education.

For all of you in FRC, stick with it! The stuff we all do here in FRC is sometimes even higher level than some engineering students reach in their whole college career. Many colleges probably don't even offer any projects comparable (or of the caliber of) FRC. So, drain every last possible ounce you can out of it during your time in HS because when you hit college, you will be taking a good amount of time off from real world type applications, projects, and problem solving.

As one last word, you most likely will not get anything even CLOSE to FRC in your college classes. So, stick with FRC as being a team mentor, and join a college club that does design and fabrication.

Oh yeah, and thanks for the article.
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