Top 50 Engineering Schools Involvement

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The Ohio State University currently mentors three teams and plans to expand next year to at least one more.

We additionally mentor a number of smaller LEGO league teams. The first LEGO league team we mentored won the state championship that year.

Take a look at:

http://www.osufirst.org/

for a little bit more information. Our three teams are 677, 1014, and 1317. 677 is a private all-girls school. 1014 is a public school. 1317 is a group of home-school students.

We also started team 128 in 1996. We left 128 in 2000; they have been working on their own ever since.

From what I understand, we were one of the first universities to get involved.

Using our 60+ OSU mentors, 75+ high school students, some of the methods inspired by some of the graduate-level controls classes here at OSU as well as the machinery available on campus, we were able to win the Team Spirit Award (677), the Engineering Inspiration Award (1014), and the Rookie Inspiration Award (1317). In the most recent past, we've won the Rookie All-Star Award (1014) and the Kleiner-Perkins-Claufield Entrepreneurship <sp!!> Award (677).

Our Dublin students also have a web page available for their team (team 1014):

http://www.dublinrobotics.com/

They have been involved for 2 years. Next year they're getting their industrial design class involved to bid on and build a crate for the robot that year. It is a partnership currently between two schools, but very soon a third school in the district will be started. It is not decided whether the partnership will continue or if another team will start. While the school provides no monetary resources to the team, they provide space and some machinery.

Team 677 was startedin 2000 and team 1317 started this year.

OSU provides mentors, more advanced machining capabilities, some money when available, and often space and lots of time.