Texas Mentor Workshop July 11th and 12th 2014

FIRST General Forum
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Scott Rippetoe (1477) and I are running the Texas Mentor Workshop on July 11th and 12th.

What
Mentor workshop to get more Texas mentors to know each other and also learn more about FRC. The curriculum will be focused on new mentors but we’re happy to have veteran mentors as well.

When
July 11th 2pm-7pm + We’ll go to dinner as a group after we finish (cost is not covered for this meal)
July 12th 8am-5pm Lunch will be provided (Pizza)

What’s Covered

  • FRC Mechanical concepts such as chassis design, gearboxes, and drive trains.
  • Introduction to the 2015 control system. This may only be a presentation but if we can get a beta/alpha hardware setup we will have actual controls to look at.
  • A lot of information about running a successful team.
  • Please let us know what you want to learn, as we are happy to cover other items.

Where
It will be located in the Spectrum shop in St. Agnes Academy. 8900 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX, 77036.

Cost
Free for everyone. We just want more mentors that can better prepare students and teams.

RSVP

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Sounds great. I wish I could be there.

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Scott and Allen ran a fantastic event. It was well worth the drive to get there. I am taking back many ideas to discuss with my team. Thank both of you for a great time.

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Thanks Seth, I’m very happy you drove all the way in to see us and thank you for your contributions to the workshop as well.

We have been posting some of the resources that we talked about in a google drive folder.

We also have posted some video from the workshop as well on the Spectrum Youtube channel, there will be more going up later this week.

Thanks to everyone that came, I had a great time talking to all of you and getting to know you better.

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Thanks Allen for hosting this workshop this workshop! Our mentors were really excited about this workshop but dissappointed that they couldn’t go due to personal reasons, but I’ll forward on the videos and docs!