FRC 6328 Mechanical Advantage 2020 Virtual Outreach

FIRST
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Hi all, welcome to the Mechanical Advantage 2020 outreach thread, presented by #openalliance.

Hope everyone is doing well in these unprecedented times. Although we were unable to compete much this season, it has not stopped us from participating in the season entirely - we decided to bring things online and change our outreach into a virtual project this year. Currently, there are still some unknowns and unforeseen limitations, but we will try our best to continue our efforts to spread the message of FIRST to those around us. We’ve brainstormed some ideas for “virtual outreach” and are in the initial stages of planning out these ideas.

We will be using this thread to share everything we are working on in terms of virtual outreach, and we are excited for this collaboration with the FIRST community! Feel free to use anything we post here on your own team, or add ideas on the thread about how to improve what we are working on. The build season thread was such a great resource to not only other teams but to us as well, and we are excited to take this idea even further and include the non-technical parts of our team.

Look out for some virtual FLL training programs we will be posting here soon!

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#2

Our FLL teams in nearby Bolton missed out on their spring practice, so we have taken that online. Starting in mid-March, mentors and students have been publishing short challenge videos meant to teach new team members and enrich returning ones. The 22 participating students use either personal or team-owned EV3 kits. These videos cover robot building, programming, and Core Values challenges that can be completed either by the team member or the team member and their family. After completing the challenge, team members post a video of their robot or Core Values challenge on a Slack channel, and students and mentors discuss their work. We have summarized the challenges that we completed here. Feel free to use these challenges or DM me with questions!

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#3

There are a lot of challenges here for new and returning students, check them out!

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