Summary of new VEX updates/upgrades for students to allow them to successfully participate in the VEX portion of the Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association competition events this year.
A comparison of first- and second-year typical costs for the three programs. Estimates for FIRST programs come from FIRST and FIRSTWA, estimates for VEX come from the VRC program Exothermic Robotics Team.
This paper details the development process of a gearbox for the Gearheads 2009 robot in dirty iterative detail. It also serves as a mechanism to capture team intellectual property.
Semantic robotics is a technology being developed by team 1678 in order to develop more reliable and effective control systems. This paper serves as a guide to the basic principals of semantic robotics.
This is a white paper on how to get started with Girls in Gear, a STEM program designed for Girl Scouts. Girls in Gear is designed to run at robotics events.
For my senior project an with the support of our team and club, we ran a Jr.FLL Expo at one of the Lower Merion elementary schools. Here's a "how to", the ppt slides for my senior project, and all associated event files.