The MOCK KickOff on December 01 in Grand Rapids

[Keno]

Note this is the 5th year and we have some exciting new workshops for example

The CAD Modeling workshop is geared more toward veteran students and mentors who would like see how 3D CAD can help make good engineering decisions and/or avoid some bad ones.

Too often teams are focused on making a CAD model of the solution (the robot). Very few teams recognize the importance of "modeling the problem" (field and game pieces) first..
This is a very special addition to the MOCK KickOff and covers how to generate a CAD mode to gain an accurate 3D perspective of the game. First and second year Rookies will gain more by attending the regular Breakout Sessions.
Part or the requirement to participate in this class will be at least 2 years of CAD experience.

We plan to have some flash drives preloaded with the fields for Inventor, Creo, Solidworks. That way people will not have to download the fields.

We have team of industry experts, a.k.a. Engineers, who are specialize in
Creo, AutoCad and SolidWorks to facilitate the workshop.

We have a Classroom with 32 computers loaded with Creo and SolidWorks if
they do not bring a computer with a load of the flavor of choice.

What the session will entail is downloading and using the 2012 full field
model, place up to 6 robot models on the field model and "play" the game.
Walking through the Hybrid mode the teleoperated mode and the finish.

As you can see this will be a very intense session and we want to develop
better appreciation of using CAD (any flavor) to PLAN the game strategy
before designing the robot. To ultimately solve the problem of know what you
want to build before designing the product.

This is a huge addition to the MOCK kick off and we will need

Head count of CAD Modeling attendees
Will they be bringing a computer or need one provided
CAD software preference.
Experience level 2 years or more