SXSW Panel Discussion: FIRST Robotics: Technically You're Changing the World

[Coach Norm]

Today at SXSW in Austin, Texas, mentors from National Instruments and Texas Instruments lead a panel discussion on FIRST Robotics and Mentoring.

Team 2468 was fortunate to have three of our mentors on this panel:

Joe Hershberger, National Instruments, FRC Mentor, FRC alumni,
Tim Ousley, National Instruments
Rebecca Phillips, Texas Instruments

The other two panelists were:

Erik VanWyk, National Instruments, FRC Mentor, FRC Alumni
Brian Powell, National Instruments, Panel Moderator.

I live blogged the event with CoverItLive and Ustreamed the event. The UStream is off a built-in web camera on a PC, so please accept my apologies for the poor video quality. The message comes thru loud and clear from the mentors though.

The Liveblog resides at www.coachnorm.posterous.com. The Ustream link is
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13323399

At the end of the event, we had our 2011 FRC ROBOT "LIZ" present for demonstrations as well as our FTC robot. Lots of discussion on many different levels followed the formal panel discussion.


DaddyOh (http://twitter.com/DaddyOh) was present and responded to a attendees question. We had a post from MissDaisy and The Holy Cows to mention a few. Thanks to all who had a chance to listen in and watch the discussion.

Hope you can use the video and blog for your team.

Norman