Workshops in Hawaii and New Zealand

[NoahTheBoa]

We just returned from New Zealand on the 19th after 2 weeks of workshops.
We held 5 student workshops each lasting 2 days. Over the course of these workshops we gave presentations on Drive Systems, Arms & Lifts, Animation, CAD, Programming, Team Spirit, Team Organization & Finance, Strategy, and Safety. Students were divided into 30 teams and used VEX kits to build a robot to compete in a modified version of 'Quad Quandary' at the end of the second day. We taught nearly 1,000 students in these workshops. We also held 1 teacher workshop, 1 engineer workshop, and 1 mentor workshop each with about 150 attendees. In addition to this we hosted about 80 VIPs during our 3rd workshop.
We were joined by Mark Leon and Ian McEwan from FIRST. Also, Mark and our lead mentor, Nancy McIntyre, appeared on a morning show called 'Sunrise' to talk about the workshops (Video: http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Sunrise...7/Default.aspx) These workshops went extremely well and we have received a lot of positive feedback.