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Post what to do with kits of parts...

For rookie teams who have no training at all about building robots, just a basic lecture about the things in kits of parts probably isn't good enough. You can lecture them about something, and they will never be able to memorize everything at once.

The competition manual doesnˇ¦t come with the kits, but you can get it from the team representatives who went to kick off (remote). Make sure you check out the kits of parts list. And make copies of rules/regulation for all members.

First, you should label the parts as many have suggested. You want to at least make sure people aren't confused about different parts. Have a selected few who's interested or even have a little experience about hardware, and have them sort out the parts and check through the list for any missing things while they do that.

You want to divide the parts into different group: Motors, electronics, the light, battery, wheels, field parts and different hardware... etc. Make sure your team knows that the control system, battery, light, and some of the motors have to go on the robot. You will have to explain to them how important weight and size is.

The next thing to do is to start showing your team what's available in the kits. Show them the different motors, and tell them different things the motors can specialize in. For example, tell them about the window lift motor and the tape drive attachment, or the rack and pinion came with the seat motor, or how drill motor is probably best for drive train, etc. You will want some of the group leaders to understand performances of motors, but that can be later. (Show them some of the motor presentation in white paper, or my lecture notes about the same topic )

Show everyone the switches and sensors they can use on the robot. But explain the available electronics parts only to the electronics/control system people on your team. A lot of team members don't need to know about control system at this point, so you can just introduce the parts and not descriptions. Also you want to make sure the motors people are there to understand how motors are controlled.

And finally, show the rest of "small pieces" in the kits to everyone. There are things like bearings, shaft collars, metal stocks, springs, and weird stuff people can make use of.

There should always be some sort of field parts that come with the kits. Usually they are the balls used in competition, and the carpet example. Let the students get a feel of them.

At the end of this, you want to sort them into different places so the students can go look at them anytime afterward. Label boxes and drawers so they can find the stuff.

So, in short words: Check through list for missing parts, divide them into different categories, explain parts most useful for robot's design, and out them away where people can look at them easily later.
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