FIRST describes this program as students working "side by side" with professional mentors. We describe our team as working "shoulder to shoulder." Maximum learning happens with maximum interaction between students and mentors, whenever and wherever that may be. - jspatz1 [more]
This is a spreadsheet that creates IBL files of gears for import into Creo (Pro/E.) It also has a basic gear design function and it can animate the gear profiles as they roll together.
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.