Workshops in Hawaii and New Zealand

[Jeff K.]

Team 1138 with the help of the Chaminade University, University of Hawaii, and the governor's office in Honolulu, Hawaii. We are receiving help from Governor Linda Lingle, the Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona, and Corrie Heck.

We are currently holding workshops over the course of two weeks. The workshops will cover everything from drive systems and safety to team spirit, organization, and financing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fpj9BY56bqU

There will be two rookie teacher, one returning teacher, and one student workshop utilizing the VEX platform. There is no cost to attend and all attendees will construct a robot to compete in our game, "Plan of Attack", which is like a mix of Billiards and Triple Play so that they can use their newly attained knowledge. We saw teachers that attended the workshops last year at the regional, and will be seeing returning teachers this year. It is very rewarding to see how much they have learned and how they want to take every opportunity they have to help their team as much as possible.

We have been invited to return next year to host third annual set of workshops in Hawaii.





After that, we will be traveling to Auckland, New Zealand. FIRST invited us to host more workshops after we hosted the workshops in Hawaii last summer. We hosted a team at the Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, and we loved our experience working with them. Over two weeks, there will be 5 robotic student workshops with over 1000 students total and one robotic teacher workshop. There will be several sponsor events to help organize the New Zealand Regional and a workshop to train the Regional Organizing Committee. The robotic workshops will use the VEX and FRC platform.