the IndyRAGE - Robotics All Girls Event

[Chris Fultz]

Event Highlights –

Friday Evening:

Panel Discussion: 3 - 4 Female Professionals. Topics may include career options, education options, challenges in the workforce, how to overcome bias.


Saturday:

Robot Competition – We will play the FIRST FRC 2015 Game “Recycle Rush”, with no rule changes from the official FRC season. (www.usfirst.org/FRC)

Teams – Our goal is a 24 team event. All teams will play in the Playoffs. If fewer than 24 teams register, we will have a modified playoff process.

Drive Teams – Drive teams, including the Drive Coach, must be female. We strongly encourage the drive coach to be a non-student to provide an opportunity for an adult to work with a team.

Pit Crews – Pit crews are encouraged to be all-female. We recognize this as a significant challenge to teams, so this is not a requirement. Teams are encouraged to recruit new mentors for this event!

Robot Transportation – Safety is at the top of the priority list. If teams need assistance with robot movement to and from the field, please ask the field reset crew for assistance.

Guest Speaker 1 (Opening Ceremony) – Motivational speaker, Relevant to young women interested in professional and technical careers.

Guest Speaker 2 (Alliance Selection) – Motivational speaker, Relevant to young women interested in professional and technical careers.

Open Mingle & Lunch – Open, casual discussion for team members and volunteers. Discuss careers, life balance, education, other topics. Lunch provided.


General Information:

Team Host – Each team will have a female professional provided to them as a new member for the day. The goal for the Host is to learn about the team and team members, FIRST, and to share their experiences. The goal for the team is to share their knowledge, learn, and turn their Host into a FIRST Mentor, Volunteer or Advocate. Team Hosts are allowed to be a 5th Drive Team member within the guidelines of the drive Coach role.

Volunteers – Our goal is 100% female volunteers in every role. In some cases, due to the experience required, this may not be possible. In those specific cases, we will have an experienced volunteer provide coaching and training for a female interested in learning those roles.

Judging – There will be judged awards. All judging will be complete by noon Saturday. Awards listing will be provided to teams in advance of the event.

T-Shirts – A limited number of event shirts will be available for purchase.

Event Logo – The IndyRAGE ’15 event logo can be downloaded and used by teams for their shirts.

Twitter - @theIndyRAGE

Team Registration - Register through this site: http://vols.pt/geeP6j

Entry Fee – Thanks to our great sponsors, the entry fee will be $50 - $100 per team and will be determined soon. Registered teams will be sent an invoice in early September.

Volunteers – Volunteer through this site: http://vols.pt/gerhog

Questions: theindyrage@gmail.com

[Josh Drake]

This sounds like a lot of fun. Can't wait to tell the team.

[Monochron]

Man I wish we could make it. This sounds awesome.

[Tyler Olds]

We have some female students that were very excited to hear about this at IRI. Wave will definitely be trying to make the trip down.

[mastachyra]

As an all girl team, RoboPride is super excited about this! Can't wait to see the competition!

[hardcopi]

We have enough girls to field a drive team and pit crew... but most of them are in band and doing an invitational that day. Good luck though.

[mastachyra]

I just want to keep promoting this event, so we can make it happen. It is really important to have these all girl events. So lets fill up all the slots!

[Taylor]

A modified-for-IndyRAGE version of Yertle will be making an appearance at this event, should we be selected to attend.

[tindleroot]

I'm just curious, are any of the teams bringing girls who are not already involved with robotics? Or possibly some who are new to FRC this coming year?

[Taylor]

Of our ten RAGE students, five are new to the team.
Of our three RAGE mentors, one is new to the team.

[mastachyra]

I'm sure I will have many new to FRC girls coming along. We will use this event to introduce them to the beautiful chaos that is an FRC event.