Robotics after FRC

[torihoelscher]

At Embry Riddle they have a Robotics program like F.I.R.S.T. Its pretty cool! I cant wait to join them! They dont have enough girls! If you want, I can give you the information about it!

[Jenn Feathers]

Originally Posted by torihoelscher

At Embry Riddle they have a Robotics program like F.I.R.S.T. Its pretty cool! I cant wait to join them! They dont have enough girls! If you want, I can give you the information about it!

is it only offered there?

[popnbrown]

I would recommend that you seriously think about mentoring as a freshman, but that you don't rule out. Spend time with the team and slowly ramp up your availability, if at a certain point you can't handle it then ramp it down. I worked with two CAT engineers and a freshman in college this Fall from October to December, and the freshman was there more often than me, and was there at every single meeting. He even continued to mentor the FRC team, and was basically there 6/7 days of the week, for our meetings for FRC (I'm pretty sure I made less meetings). It's definitely possible, just be careful.

Originally Posted by torihoelscher

At Embry Riddle they have a Robotics program like F.I.R.S.T. Its pretty cool! I cant wait to join them! They dont have enough girls! If you want, I can give you the information about it!

What program is this?




Also currently a junior in college, I run a club, that has several teams that compete in:
JSDC - University of Illinois competition, jsdc.ec.illinois.edu
IGVC - Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition hosted by AUVSI at Oakland, MI
Lunabotics - which someone already mentioned
VEX College Competition - which probably comes the closest besides CARD, and is relatively cheap to get a team started in

Beyond that there are these:
Battlebots - you know what that is
AUVSI - in addition to IGVC hosts a bunch of different competitions, land, water, and sky based
RoboCup - You build a team of robots that compete in a game of soccer
RoboOlympiad - or something like that, I'll look it up for you, they have a multitude of competitions, from SumoBots, to RoboCup type games, to building like a MazeBot (MouseBot or something).


Wanted to add info about CARD as well. Probably the closest to FRC, and it tries to spread the same values of FIRST unlike other competitions, but it's currently having a lot of difficulty getting up and running. As of now the competition for this year has been postponed, because a lot of the involved are also heavily involved in FIRST. If anyone is ever interested in CARD, I suggest going to the website and e-mailing them.

[JohnSchneider]

I believe shes referring to Riddles CARD team

We have a world champion formula SAE team here at A&M but its not open to freshmen-sophmores.