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Re: Question for college students.
i am currently a member of 125 Nutrons (3rd yr in college), and was a member of MORT Team 11 in HS (soph-sr yr). In HS our mentor had whole progression of classes set up, a full cirriculum if you will. It started out freshman year with a "intro to technology", we built co2 cars, balsa wood bridges, the current FLL comp. Each thing we did was preceeded by a lesson in what every it was we were doing. For the bridges, we used a truss program to determine the best design, we then built our bridges based on what we had designed. This was meant to get kids hooked into first by providing compeittion, each project was a mini comp, and the winner got some small prize, maybe lunch one day.
Sophmore year we were in "Advanced Technology", which we started to play with electronics a little more. We used basic stamps to create some basic circuits, using light sensors, LEDs, and other things. We also did a project called marble maddness, we would get materials list with costs, and would challenged to get a marble to move specific x,y, and z distance for the least cost. We also used the basic stamps to control small walking robots using light sensors.
Jr year we took the previous years first competition, cut it down to a 1/3rd scale and build mini robots to compete in that competition. This was interesting because we got some more time to revisit the previous game and things we would change about our robot, or build a design we liked from another team.
Senior year we had a double period in which we got to work on our first robot, and since i was a leader of the team, work on different admin things that needed to be done.
This eased us into the skills we woudl need to the FRC seaon, time management as well as the excitement that competition could provide.
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NUTRONS 125
2007 Boston Regional Champs (125, 126, 69 NU-Hyper-Force!)
MORTTeam 11
2004-Palmetto Regional Champs
2004-Palmetto Regional Daimler Chrysler Team Spirit Award
2005-NJ Chairman's Award Winner
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