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First Year Rookie Team Experiences

First Year Rookie Team Experiences. Team 2051. Plan in Advance. Make teams or groups Suggest leaders HELP OR GET OUT! K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid). Brainstorm. Have students select and work toward ideas. While the PDU is being fabricated.

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First Year Rookie Team Experiences

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  1. First Year Rookie Team Experiences Team 2051

  2. Plan in Advance • Make teams or groups • Suggest leaders • HELP OR GET OUT! • K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)

  3. Brainstorm • Have students select and work toward ideas. While the PDU is being fabricated. • Have them adhere strictly to the wire gauges and fuse sizes. • Plan for any additional electrical parts you may need. • Be sure to consider ALL ideas

  4. Rules • Be sure to follow the rules as closely as possible. You do not want to be sent home for an oversight.

  5. Robot Power Distribution • Assemble the PDU so you can test PWM’s and Relay Drivers. • Build and Use testbed

  6. Be prepared to Give Up Control • Remember there will be many experts working with you. They are all volunteers. You need to keep a staff, so remember your ego needs to be small to fit them all under one roof. • Otherwise, you may become a mentor team of one.

  7. Programming and Building • If you want to do the autonomous portion of the competition, you will need to try to have two prototypes running. One can be in the build stage while the other is in programming. • As a new team we did not have that luxury last year, and the build became tough. • Start building AFTER you have done plenty of BRAINSTORMING • Programming will be tougher than it looks

  8. The Mechanical Build • When there are mechanical problems, what happens with electronic and programming portion during this time? • Make it stronger than you think will be needed. • OVER KILL!!!

  9. Engineering Journal andEngineering Design Review • It is important for the students to maintain daily engineering journals. • As the students break into teams, each team needs to submit a daily report, and these reports should be compiled daily (mail merge) • Each team should compile design reviews, and the team leaders will need to collaborate with the project leader to compile a project design review. • Build follow Gantt Charts. • Update them often and try to keep to schedule.

  10. This is a great opportunity • The mentors can expose the kids to the real side of engineering. • The competition can expose the kids to the First competition is. • Free pneumatics are available from Bimba*they for the last few years

  11. Shipping • When you get to the competition with your robot, your team has already won. • Pack carefully

  12. Have Fun!!

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