Has anyone received (or know anything about) the Pre-Season Kit’s “Learning Modules”?
The intro letter said there were to be “downloadable” lessons and exercises for your team to help you prepare. Do they mean “downloadable from a CDROM sent with the kit”, or is there a URL for them?
If there’s a URL, can someone please post it?
Thanks!
I think the kits have been sent out.
I believe all information and manuals are coming included in the kits. There is another thread about the EduBot kits and their arrival here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15014
You should direct all comments/questions there.
*Originally posted by JVN *
**I think the kits have been sent out.
I believe all information and manuals are coming included in the kits. There is another thread about the EduBot kits and their arrival here:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15014
You should direct all comments/questions there. **
Yea, I saw that thread, but it was really concerning the EduBots. I was more interested in the Learning Modules, so I started this one (and would like to keep it running to discuss the LM’s).
I was hoping someone had received that separately (like last year with the partial kit shipments), or at least knew more about what they are.
Honestly, I want those training modules ASAP, even if IFI is backed up on delivering EduBots. I am FIRST-aware, but I’m working with a new team this year. We don’t have many meetings left before Christmas break, so I need to get the team started on that educational material right away, even WITHOUT an EduBot in hand!
Even if IFI is backed up on delivering hardware, I hope we can at least get our LMs shipped out right away. At least we can get a jump on downloading if not deriving non-hardware team training lessons from it.
I believe the Learning Modules are designed to go with the edubots. My UPS tracker has not been updated since Nov. 6, at which time the 15 pound packages left Texas. Delivery is still scheduled for 11/12/02
*Originally posted by David Kelso *
I believe the Learning Modules are designed to go with the edubots.
Well, that’s OK. If they’re still having production problems, I feel we could all still use advance access to the materials without the robot, to discuss the topics.
Access to the materials sooner would give us time to review, prepare, and start lecturing on exactly what we’ll do when the robot shows up. This is like when you give a college lecture before you go to another day’s class to do the lab experiment.
I’m just concerned that the number of meetings before kickoff is shrinking rapidly, and we need to get off the starting blocks with the teaching sessions.
Originally posted by David Kelso *
** My UPS tracker has not been updated since Nov. 6, at which time the 15 pound packages left Texas. Delivery is still scheduled for 11/12/02.*
Ours haven’t even been shipped yet. If it taking a week or two to show up, and it’s not even on a truck yet, we’re only going to have a week or two before Finals and the break to work with it. I can’t call for daily meetings at that point.
We just got our kit yesterday, and everyone had their fun with it today, but we noticed that the LMs hadn’t come with it. Eh…did anyone else get anything? Or is it truly going to be a download off a site?
I’ve dug through our EduRobot kit and found no reference to the learning modules. That is distressing since I was planning on using these modules to teach my rookies.
If anyone has any idea where this information is, please let us know.
I was told by FIRST that the Learning Modules would be shipped with the other Software that is part of the pre-kit.
Richard
If you go to the FIRST website and click on the EduRobotics link on the left side, there’s some info about “modules.” Is this what you guys were looking for?
edit: here’s a link directly to the page I was thinking of: http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/primer/home.html
That looks like it is ‘learning modules’. So far, it looks very helpful.
Wetzel
/me goes and reads moreYeah it took us about 2 hours to get the first module complete…
Just wondering if you guys have cut any of the metal yet? Innovation first says to use tin snips but they dont work to well, use a hack saw… Cutting the metal was the hardest part of building the robot. The second hardest part is trying to get the frame square and holding it together. You should probably use those lock nuts!
Just for kicks we put the big wheels on it and used a full size castor from last years goals so we could easily do 360s’ Our battery has not yet died so I would think should last more than 30 minutes. To the people in control of the EDUBOT: You are going to get sick of all the kids screaming: CAN I BUILD?, CAN I DRIVE?, I WANT ANOTHER TURN!, and many others…
BADBRAD