College/Areial Robotics Info

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by salomon90

Also, I'd like to mention how awesome a time I had participating in CARD. It was a real time sink, but it was well worth it and I learned a lot more about engineering and designing than I did in any of my Freshman engineering classes this year.

Replace CARD with FRC and "freshman engineering classes" with "any and all high school classes" and you have the story of my high school career.

[Daru]

I found out about it from a GO FIRST member who was a 706 alum which I mentored... and then I started the MSOE team.

[Colin P]

Does anybody have a CARD team budget I could take a look at?

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by Colin P

Does anybody have a CARD team budget I could take a look at?

I don't believe we ever developed a formal budget, but the costs are going to very based on the materials and equiptment you have access to.

We borrowed most of the components for our ground vehicle from local FRC teams, and I believe all of out equiptment either belongs to our members or the school.

I would assume that $1500-2000 per robot, and another $1000 if you don't have access to tools and equiptment, would be a minimum safe budget

[RyanJK]

Hey there! My name is Ryan Kamphuis, and I am a member of the CARD planning committee. To answer your question, we placed a $2000 dollar limit per robot. Some teams spent right up to that limit, but others built on the cheap and spent less than $1000 on their robots. It really comes down to what materials you choose to use. A few of our robots even had cardboard and wood on them!

[VisandElu]

Although I am still in highschool I look forward to being able to continue FIRST in university. However for the people who participated this year, what do you believe the possibilities are for starting a Canadian team for next year.

Would there be any regionals?

I am near the university and know people in their robotics club although I do not attend it.

Thanks,
-Hilary
Team Captain 3739, Oakbotics

[CJmango]

I've messaged Olivia directly, but as a reminder to anyone interested, you may contact the planning committee directly at

CollegiateAerialRobotics 'at' gmail.com

if you are interested in assisting or joining the program in any capacity. There is no guarantee how things will carry forward, but we are happy to hear from everyone and will keep all interested parties as up-to-date as possible.

Thank you all for the great feedback and support, and thank you to all the volunteers who made the demonstration such a success!

[demosthenes2k8]

This looks like an awesome program, I'm sad I didn't have a chance to see any matches...as soon as I get time I'll definitely be checking out those videos!

So what's the status with this and FIRST branding, anyways?

[popnbrown]

Please do check out the videos!!! All the teams from CARD really loved being there and we are all trying to work together to bring this to other students. Someone from the Planning Committee is putting together a website, where we can throw up all our pictures and videos, so STAY TUNED!

As for the FIRST branding, this was simply a demonstration to see what a future College-level FIRST competition could look like. That's why we weren't very official and why there were soo few teams. The teams involved this year are working with the Planning Committee to make a presentation to FIRST to turn it into a college-level competition. That's why we're trying to gather as much feedback and engage in as much discussion as we can.

[Shof]

Oakland University at 2011 FIRST Championship - Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demo, St. Louis, MO :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzjgPE7M2tU

Amazing team too. Thumbs up to Oakland for their performance at the competition

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Olivia

Although I am still in highschool I look forward to being able to continue FIRST in university. However for the people who participated this year, what do you believe the possibilities are for starting a Canadian team for next year.

Would there be any regionals?

I am near the university and know people in their robotics club although I do not attend it.

Thanks,
-Hilary
Team Captain 3739, Oakbotics

If the team can make it down to championships, then it would be absolutely possible! Everyone involved would be thrilled to see this program become international.

Since this is still a very new program and there are still only about 15-20 teams whoa re very spread out across the country, I doubt that there will be any regional competitions.

[Rangel]

This is awesome. I will definitely try to sign up when I go to college. Also, did anyone notice the tennis balls as the game pieces.

[popnbrown]

Yes! Absolutely, do! And if you want to continue to receive updates e-mail

CollegiateAerialRobotics 'at' gmail.com

As for the tennis balls, we figured they were the easiest obtainable game pieces around. They also kind of made the game a little harder, tennis balls are relatively a hard thing to design a system for.

[Shof]

heres some video of our bot in action and the team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W21TtxGt-A

[Nica F.]

Just a quick clarification:

Originally Posted by Littleswimmer14

Someone should help me clarify this, but there was a group of schools who attended the FIRST for Life conference in 2010. It was there where Dean Kamen talked and inspired the founders to create this event.

The FIRST for Life Conference last year in Atlanta was a conference intended to inform high school students and current college mentors/faculty members on how to start a FIRST College program aimed at mentoring local high school FRC,FTC,FLL teams, hosting regionals, and/or having a credited FIRST college course. This conference also gave structural examples of colleges that currently have them (ex. Purdue, WPI, and Clarkson). Dean Kamen was not a guest speaker at this conference session and this conference didn't have any direct correlation to a college level FIRST competition.