Event Information
Date
Saturday October 14, 2017
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue
Upper St. Clair Township Library
Multi-Purpose Room
1820 McLaughlin Run Rd
Upper St Clair, PA 15241
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Agenda
| 1:00 PM | Teams Arrive and Check-in |
| 1:15 PM | Workshop Begins |
| 5:00 PM | Event Complete |
Team Powered
This event is hosted and managed by FTC Team 11972 BotsBurgh.
Event Details
Workshop Series
Design It!, Build It!, Program It!, and Drive It! are a series of teams-helping-teams workshops to help teams start or advance their robot design, build, and programming skills, as well as providing practice time on the field. Coaches, mentors, lead students, and volunteers will work directly with teams to help them prepare for their first scrimmage or Tournament. Jump Start! is a single workshop combining aspects of the above series tailored to the needs of the attending teams.
- Design It! is focused on game strategy and robot design, with initial robot building.
- Build It! continues the robot build process with help for initial programming.
- Program It! is focused on programming in either Java/Android Studio, FTC App Inventor, or Blocks. Bring a laptop that either is or can be set up for one of the development environments.
- Drive It! provides the opportunity to test and tweak your robot on a full competition field. Practice with and against other teams.
Share your expertise with other teams! Contact ftc.events@pennfirst.org if you would like to present/lead/support a topic area at any these workshops. Non-robot/programming topic areas are also welcomed, including engineering notebook, judging, fund raising, outreach, etc.
What To Bring
These are hands on workshops. To get the most out of the workshops, please bring what you can of the following as appropriate for this workshop:
- Engineering Notebook
- Programming laptop / CAD laptop
- FTC New Technology components: modules, cables
- Driver station and robot controller phones, OTG USB cable, USB hub
- DC Motors, Servos, cables and wires, slotted screw driver
- Robot parts – Tetrix, Matrix, and other parts
- Tools
- Gamepads
- Charged batteries and charger
- Power strip
- Safety glasses
Team Registration Information
Participating Teams
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| Team # | Team Name | Organization | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8509 | STEEL Serpents | STEEL Corp./Team RobotiX | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 11792 | BotsBurgh | Community | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 12468 | TheIncredibles | TheIncredibles | Sewickley, PA |
| 12593 | Yantrik | private | Bridgeville, PA |
| 12792 | Sharon Tigers Robotics | Sharon High School | Sharon, PA |
| 13336 | Martians | Mars Area Middle School | Mars, PA |
| 13474 | MARS | Mars Robotics Association | Mars, PA |