Curriculum for training students?

[Jon Stratis]

Evan - What do you think about trying to get together a meeting of team leadership (both student and mentor) from some of the stronger teams in the area to talk about this issue (probably sometime after States)? I'm sure I could convince my team to host such a gathering (we're moving into our new STEM center build space on Saturday, we'd love to show it off!), and we could focus less on what each of our teams does to train new students up (although we should still share that info), and more on how we get that information out to other teams. Do we put together a website dedicated to training methods? Do we divide up a list of local teams so we can each get in touch with some of them directly? The MN Splash event is a great way to reach a lot of teams in a short period of time, but it comes fairly late in the fall and doesn't have any hands-on building experience.

[ehochstein]

I think that is a great idea Jon! I'll email you later today with thoughts/ideas for this.

Evan

[rsilverstein]

You should look into Team 1717's curriculum. They have a full 4-year education plan which culminates in FRC for the seniors.

A great example of integrating FIRST within the actual school's academics.

http://www.dpengineering.org/academy/plan/four_year2

[GilaMonsterAlex]

Why not start an off-season project?

We always meet in the end of summer/early fall and work on a robotics project. We use this time to try out new things, and to teach our new students about building a robot. I would say it works. We started with a half new team this year, and they learned a lot.

This year, we started a t-shirt launcher robot. We didn't finish it, but we will continue that project this fall.

If you have the spare parts, then why not come up with something fun? Nothing teaches you how to build a robot, than to build a robot.