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Originally Posted by cooker52
Is the program in PLTW (Project Lead the Way)?
I'm taking an engineering class (Intro to Engineering) and I find it a nice relaxing period to do whatever.
The class is kinda helpful because they at least teach you a few different design methods, but nothing you can't learn in FIRST. And less than one year experience in FIRST, and I knew stuff the teacher doesn't even know about.
If anything, take the class. Sure, it's an easy A, but that's about an hour a day devoted to messin around on Inventor, and a bonus hour during the build season to design the robot. And you never know, you might learn something new.
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I'm sorry I didn't clarify this better, I'm taking the easy A engineering class and an independant study course which is not part of PLTW, and I definitely will enjoy the extra hour. However I want to learn more, I just don't know where to go from here.
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I guess there are no machine shop / wood shop / auto shop / electronics courses at your school and that you have already maxxed out on Physics, Math and Calculus courses?
Jason
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I'm not sure if this is being sarcastic or not, haha, The school does not have any shop classes because of what we'll call past behavioral issues, I don't know details, but all my teachers advised against classes such as that anyway as they sometimes look like blow off courses. Plus we sort of took over the shop with robot stuff so now they don't even have a classroom
I'm in AP Calc and AP Physics right now, and dual enrolling next year for Calc II. Not much left in high school for me...
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Originally Posted by nlknauss
The more Inventor/CAD experience the better, especially for college. At least one of your freshman engineering courses in college will be entirely based on CAD design.
I would say figure out a way to challenge yourself with something new in Inventor or grab a bunch of your teachers miscellaneous classroom materials and draw. Teachers don't mind students who want to make up a library of CAD parts that other students could use in the future for assemblies!
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The practice of random drawing would be nice, but I'm not sure it would be very engaging, I'm looking to challenge myself as you said, but what I was hoping to get from the FIRST community is how the best way of doing this would be. What is the next step in inventor? What would be an interesting topic to study, my teacher is willing to let me do most anything.
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Originally Posted by IbleedPink233
I know this isn't an actual school class, but you could defintely get some of what you want from the Solidworks Robotics Summer School program they have going on. Check out the ad on the front page of CD and the thread, http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=67139 |
I considered this, however my time to fill is the required time in school, I have plenty going on over the summer, and unfortunetly I don't think I can make time for a class.
Thanks for your time.