I competed in the Wisconsin SkillsUSA competition this year and last year, in 3D Visualization and Animation, only because they didn't offer Computer Science. :frown: Both years, our team failed to render the video clip because (what else?) we had no time to train because of FIRST Robotics. Now, I'm not blaming FIRST for my own lack of success, because I could have definitely trained at Nationals (and besides, I ended up having a pretty good time anyway), but the fact that the Nationals ended on Saturday and SkillsUSA started on Tuesday of the following week didn't help much.
They did offer a Sumo Bot contest at the Wisconsin competition, and despite us not being in it, it was nice to see that robotics is starting to creep into the automotive-, construction-, and healthcare-dominated Wisconsin SkillsUSA program.
Now, are there any others who are rocking FIRST and Skills too?
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2006: School Mascot for Team 1652
2007-2008: Programmer for Team 1652 (Robot Mafia)
2009: Programmer on Team 1652 (Robot Mafia), Programmer on Team 2970 (eSchool eBots)
2010-2016: Volunteer, Wisconsin Regional
2017: Programming Mentor, FRC 4247 (CougarBOTS, Obama SCTE, Milwaukee, WI)