Team 1717 retires

[SenorZ]

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I think I'd need to see some more about this Mechatronics project to fully understand it. From what little they show in that article I can't believe it is a replacement for FRC, considering how they ran their team so well.

Looks more like STEAM education that STEM... with more of an emphasis on the A, and less on the E.

Wonder how this will affect their enrollment?

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

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I think I'd need to see some more about this Mechatronics project to fully understand it. From what little they show in that article I can't believe it is a replacement for FRC, considering how they ran their team so well.

Looks more like STEAM education that STEM... with more of an emphasis on the A, and less on the E.

Wonder how this will affect their enrollment?

The answer to your question is in a bulleted list in the article:

Mechatronics will be a robust educational experience because:

• the new curriculum will focus on consistent rigor and relevance;
  
• every student will be responsible for creating—from scratch—one or more of the Mechatronics mechanisms;
  
• every student will work on all facets of the engineering process (design, prototype development, programming, manufacturing, assembly, and quality control);
  
• small teams will create new, integrated design projects over the full academic year, allowing time for reflection during the design process;
  
• DPEA educators will define the learning objectives; and
  
• the full capacity of the Elings Center will be utilized throughout the school year.

Summed up, this will provide more access for students to work on what they want to work on for the entire year. No matter how well-organized your team is, it's hard to let every student work on every facet of the team and get something meaningful out of it.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

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I think I'd need to see some more about this Mechatronics project to fully understand it. From what little they show in that article I can't believe it is a replacement for FRC, considering how they ran their team so well.

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Wonder how this will affect their enrollment?

Note the emphasis on "every student". I've read elsewhere that they've actually had increasing enrollment and that this is the solution; it makes sense. It's hard to have 20+ students equally involved in the engineering aspects of FIRST.