pic: hard work paided off

[papa smurf]

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[Mr. Lim]

Congratulations!

The crossover between kids who participate in Skills Canada and FIRST has been around forever. It's great to see kids being rewarded and inspired at both competitions.

[anna~marie]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is Skills Canada?

[petek]

Congratulations! Can we assume this was awarded for an Inventor submission? Any chance we can see some of your work?

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

Excuse my ignorance, but what is Skills Canada?

You can learn more about it here:
http://www.skillscanada.com/en/

But I'll leave it up to someone from Canada to further explain it.

[gren737]

Congrats!

You've got to be pretty on your game to win one of those, in any discipline.

My company, intelitek, sponsors the CNC machining and robotic workcell competitions for Skills USA. We provide machines and support for the national event as well as hold the NH regional here at our facility.

After going to Skills Nationals last year I was amazed at the intesity of it. It's like a silent FIRST competition, everyone is totally focused on what they're doing and there are no stands filled with screaming fans.

To win a medal is an impressive accomplishment.

[Beth Sweet]

Congratulations!

Just on a side note, that logo looks scarily like the NiagaraFIRST logo!

[papa smurf]

well this is what i need to make in inventor from detail drawings(final assemby drawing not included) it's a single cylinder compressor assembly.
what was required: full assembly in 3d(nuts and bolts too.)-20 parts
exploded view with a b.o.m
a video showing how it gets assembled
a full front and right side section view
all this within a 6 hours time limit not that easy.

[Philip W.]

I've heard about you from my brother, congrats!

I was there too for the "Virtual Robotics" Competition (no pictures, sorry). As a team of two, we had to design a robot fully in Inventor that: fits in certain dimensions; begins holding objects and drop them off; travel up a REALLY steep spiral ramp (so steep so that it was impossible for any robot to do that task in reality unless it had wheels that would move up and down [think Simbotics' 2004 robot with more precision]); travel up 10 inch steps. After designing, the robot needs to be animated in 3ds performing its tasks, and also a sort of computer presentation needs to be set up (ideally a simple website but everyone made a Powerpoint because of the time limit). All this also in 6 hours. Designing a gearbox was unnecessary and unpractical with so little time. Motors were pretended to have an infinite amount of torque, speed, and precision.

Our team from Woburn pretty much came up with no animation of the robot but did an awesome job designing a robot that CAN be built. Other teams had barely any knowledge in designing robots. One team had a triple jointed arm with NO MOTORS! Argh. Another team grabbed the objects with a HUGE magnet but it wasn't specified that the objects were magnetic. Despite missing an animation, the extent of our Inventor skills and designing skills led us to winning a silver medal.

Sorry for venting my anger, but that contest really aggravated me. I definitely will not be doing this again next year. Instead I will be participating in either CNC, CAM, Mechanical CADD, or Precision Machining (all still at the high school level). The Robotics competition also bothered me a lot because it was slow and boring. I will refrain from any ranting. Next year, I'll try to expose to everyone there something a little more exciting *hint hint*.

[papa smurf]

dont worry it only get harder as you move up to the post secondary level.i hope your bother wasnt competing against me in the post secondary mechanical CADD because i kind of owned this years competition(not to brag).