paper: Team Robotics: Curriculum by FRC 931

[Richard Wallace]

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Team Robotics: Curriculum by FRC 931

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As announced during opening ceremony at today's Missouri FTC Championship Tournament, here is the Team Robotics Curriculum developed by FRC 931 and John
E. Petsch, St. Louis Public Schools Career and Technical Education Curriculum Specialist. Compliments of FRC Team 931 Perpetual Chaos.

[Andrew Schuetze]

A very useful white paper and one that I will be reading very thoroughly. A community college in San Antonio just received a big grant from the Texas Workforce commission and one of the main deliverables from the grant is a HS course in robotics.
Question, (I've just started to view the ppt and word document) but your post mentions yearly participation. Does this mean that the course is repeated for credit for a total of four years or that this is an introductory course which prepares a student for many successful years of robot team experience?

APS

[Richard Wallace]

I'm not one of the authors of our team's curriculum. The authors are listed on Slide 3. Their principal coordinator was John Petsch. His email address is john.petsch@slps.org. John asked me to post the curriculum as a CD whitepaper, hoping that would bring it to the attention of more FIRST teams.

That said, my own understanding is that the curriculum is intended to handle robotics in much the same way that the music curriculum handles band; i.e., students get credit for participation every year and the standards by which their performance is evaluated evolve as they mature through the multi-year program.

[peterjshep]

Please be Aware that John Petsch has a new email: jpetsch@yahoo.com

Thanks Team 931