FRC Workshop Nov. 5

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BAA Education Day Training Sessions for November 5th, 2011

CCBC, Catonsviille 8:30 am4 pm

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Welcome, members of of BAA and other FRC Team, to our annual training session, hosted by CCBC and

sponsored by the Baltimore Area Alliance of FRC Teams along with the TIME Center and your local

Maryland FIRST representatives!

This list of sessions is broken down into 5 strands or general topic areas, and each will be in a different

room on the CCBC Campus. Directions to the campus and the building are provided in anotherdocument. Please note that this year we have expanded the topic areas, and included sessions for team

members, mentors and parents. The five strands are Administrative and Information (All about the BAA

and FIRST, and Food), Team Building (All About Teams and Making Yours Stronger), Technical (All About

Building Your Robot), Labview and Autodesk Inventor.

Room 308A All about the BAA and FIRST, and Food

8:459 am Welcome from the BAA and FIRSTMike Dennis, Bill Duncan, Rose Young

A short welcome and introction to the sponsors for the day. Details about the event

and any changes and updates will be provided. All are encouraged to attend, so check-

in will start not later than 8:30 to accommodate a timely start to the day.

99:50 am Parents - 101 Ways they can help your FIRST team.Jenny Beatty

The audience for this session is team leaders (student and adult), mentors,

administrators, and parents. This session will cover barriers to parent involvement, a

menu of ideas for how parents can get involved with the team, sample agenda for

parent meetings, and a brief discussion of parent handbooks and booster clubs. There

will also be a discussion of the resources available through NEMO (Non-engineering

Mentor Organization) www.firstnemo.org

1011:30 am Your FIRST Scholarship - part of the $14M VariousLaptops will be available, or you may bring your own, to seek out the USFIRST

Scholarship information and discuss goals and objectives, as well as timetables. Some

question/answer time with various mentors and parents regarding the scholarships

open to FIRST students will be included. Students and parents are highly encouraged to

review scholarships and requirements on the USFIRST website at any time, but we hope

that by providing a space and shared time to discuss that we can help raise awareness

of the opportunities for scholarships.

1212:50 pm Lunch Rose Young and AnneKellerman

Pizza, drinks and some sides dishes will be provided. A $5/person charge will help

offset costs and help with planning. Payment due on the day of the event. Other

snacks and drinks will be provided by the BAA during the day.

13:30 pm Open

Room available for ad hoc meetings, additional scholarship searches, networking.

3:50- 4 pm Closing/collect evaluations Bill Duncan, Mike DennisPlease stop in before you leave to give us feedback and check in with Bill about any

questions or concerns.


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Room 308B All About Teams and Making Yours Stronger

99:50 am New to FIRST Mike Dennis

For rookies and rookie teams, all the basics. Long term mentors will attempt to guide the

mentors and team members new to FIRST along the path to success. Guidance on how to

manage a team and the best practices as appropriate to FIRST will be presented. This

session is recommended for members and mentors of rookie teams and anyone new to

FIRST.

10-10:50 am Systems Engineering 101 Bill LandinThis session will identify classical System Engineering principles that can be used to help

ensure the overall success and experience for FRC teams. It will lay the foundation by

exploring the concept of a System, discuss several tradeoffs that teams are likely to

encounter during the build season, present a basic system engineering process for teams

to follow, and identify several supporting activities that teams should employ to help

teams capitalize on their experience.

11-11:50 am 365 FRC Systems Planning Ashley Cowall

A look at year round planning, as well as team organization and sustainability, utilizing

systems thinking. Through looking at a team as a system of systems, we learn we can

apply similar problem solving and planning methods throughout team operations, leading

to a sustainable and easily transferable system for team management. Will build concepts

through discussion of challenges FRC teams face and solutions we all have encountered.

11:50 pm Branding & Entrepreneurship Ashley CowallMaking your team stand out, marketing tips, key things to know about FIRST as a 'brand'and how to attract sponsors through image.

2- 2:50 pm Judging 101 Jenny BeattyThe audience for this session is both rookie and veteran mentors and students. It will

cover the mechanics of judging, including the Chairmans Award process, how the teams

can help the judges do their jobs and hints for how the students can be great

ambassadors for their team.

3-3:50 pm Mentoring Roundtable Rose Young and Anne Kellerman

Panel discussion followed by open sharing of experiences among mentors regarding the

philosophy and practical considerations of mentoring a FIRST team. The issues will include

those facing new teams, as well as veteran teams. We all face challenges in providing the

right support and guidance, raising funds, and dealing with the stresses that come along

with the wonderful experiences of FRC. Some resources will be shared, and all

suggestions and ideas are welcome for the growth of stronger teams.


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Room 315 All About Building Your Robot

99:50 am Beta Testing Labview

Zach Long

FIRST Team 836 (RoboBees) will present findings to date on their Beta Testing efforts in

preparation for the 2012 FRC season. The RoboBees are exploring the new capabilities

and any other updates that may be released with the new version of the LabVIEW

programming system.

10- 10:50 am Motors 101 Mark Eastman

This session will cover the basics of selecting the motors to use for various applications,

the types of limitiations imposed by FIRST on the number and type of motors, and the

parameters of motors which team members need to be aware of during design and build.

Some recommendations for working within typical FRC constraints of the game as well as

physical constraints will be discussed. This will provide a foundation for the drive train

system discussion, and relate to manipulator design as well.

11 11:50 am Electrical Systems 101 Tom Diviney (2377)Basics of electricity and an introduction to electronics will be presented. This session is a

general introduction to electronics and a specific introduction to how electronics and

electronic devices are used in FIRST robotics.

11:50 pm Drive Train Systems Sarah Montplaisir

The performance of your robot's drive train will be determined by a number of factors

including the number and selection of motors, gear ratios, 2-wheel vs. 4-wheel drive,

wheel selection, and the choice to implement a gearshift mechanism. This course

presents a spreadsheet tool that you can use to explore the performance of the robot(torque, acceleration, speed) under a variety of scenarios. The spreadsheet encapsulates

the basic mechanical equations that determine those performance measures for a

particular drive train design

22:50 pm Pneumatics and Manipulator SystemsMark Eastman and Fred Needel

his session will be a beginner level introduction to pneumatics with a focus on the

pneumatic system used in the FIRST robot. The benefits and shortcomings of using

pneumatic devices on your robot will be presented, along with design suggestions for

using pneumatics, with a focus on how pneumatics are frequently applied to various

manipulators of the type used in FIRST Robotics.

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3:50 pm Getting Through Inspection Dan Atkinson, John Jacobson, and Paul Shan

Experienced FRC robot inspectors will present a special, capstone session for the technical

presentations. This is a unique opportunity to hear about the do's and dont's from the

inspetors' point of view, and ask questions to help focus your efforts in quality, design and

systems for the 2012 season.


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Room H210 All About Autodesk Inventor

All day

teams should

assign

members toan

appropriate

level. 12

seats per

session max.

Autodesk Inventor Ron KarpinskiThis session will be a basic introduction to AutoCAD using the Autodesk Inventor

software. Autodesk is a long time supporter of FIRST and generously offers free software

to FIRST participants. This session will explore the basics of designing components andassemblies in Autodesk Inventor. This class will be limited in attendance to 12 students

per session due to the number of computers. Laptops with Autodesk Inventor may also be

used, but space in the room is very limited. Three levels of instruction have been

included, each one twice during the day. Teams are encouraged to sign more than 3

students. Adjustments will be made on the day of the training, an any open seats will be

filled first-come, first-served.

99:50 am Introductory Autodesk Inventor10- 10:50 am Intermediate Autodesk Inventor11 11:50 am Advanced Autodesk Inventor11:50 pm Introductory Autodesk Inventor22:50 pm Intermediate Autodesk Inventor33:50 pm Advanced Autodesk InventorRoom 308C All About Labview for FRC

9 am3:50

pm

(all day

session, with

advancedtopics later in

the day)

Labview Jayesh JariwalaThis session will be for teams interested in learning the basics of programming in the

LabView environment LabView is the basic building tool for programming your robot.

Although the robot can be programmed with a variety of tools, LabView is the basic

system. This class will be limited in attendance to 32 students with no more than 3attendees per team due to the amount of space.

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