**FIRST EMAIL**/Scholarships for WPI Summer Robotics Program

[Rich Wong]

FRC/FRV Scholarships for WPI Summer Robotics Program

Congratulations to all you for surviving another FIRST season! If the season just whetted your appetite for even more learning and messing around with robots, you should consider attending the Frontiers Robotics Course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

This will be the 4th year we have conducted this 2-week residence course on campus at WPI. As usual, the course is structured with WPI’s hands-on, project-based approach in mind. Using the new VEX robots (for the first time modified for pneumatics, programming ease, and autonomy) and some of Team 190’s 14 year’s worth of FIRST robots, students will learn about such topics as DC Motors, Materials, Pneumatics, Power Transmission, Mechanisms, Controls, Sensors, Programming, and Machining Techniques through seminars and integrated lab sessions.

New this year will be an increased emphasis on Sensors (e.g. ultrasonic, infrared, advanced yaw devices, artificial vision), Autonomous Operations, and Vehicle Driveline Dynamics (e.g. holonomic drive, mecanum wheels). The program schedule provides a true college-life experience with many recreational activities and a final head-to-head robot tournament.

More good news this year is that we are offering increased enrollment and will accept applications until 31 May. If you hurry we still have a couple of $500 scholarships available for applicants with FIRST experience. For further info: http://www.admissions.wpi.edu/Frontiers/study.html or just email me, Ken Stafford, at stafford@wpi.edu.

Best of luck to all on the post-season circuit!

Ken Stafford, Course Director
Brad Miller, Instructor
Colleen Shaver, Teaching Assistant