I'm not one of the authors of our team's curriculum. The authors are listed on Slide 3. Their principal coordinator was
John Petsch. His email address is
john.petsch@slps.org. John asked me to post the curriculum as a CD whitepaper, hoping that would bring it to the attention of more FIRST teams.
That said, my own understanding is that the curriculum is intended to handle robotics in much the same way that the music curriculum handles band; i.e., students get credit for participation every year and the standards by which their performance is evaluated evolve as they mature through the multi-year program.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)