It’s hard to believe what a full summer we had –it seems TDT has gone nonstop from the end of last season to the start of the new one. We’ve enjoyed demoed everywhere from the Renaissance Festival to an Orlando after school program,conducted outreach programs at the Electrathon Festival and the Moffitt [...] [...]
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Hundreds of school children poured into the Bay Area Renaissance Festival today,enjoying everything from jugglers and musicians to jousting. Many were surprised to find robots there,too,but had a great time exploring a variety of simple machines and mechanisms at our table. One of our alumni students,home of Spring Break from the [...] [...] It was great fun meeting new members today. While they have a couple of more meetings to decide if FTC is something they’d like to commit to for the full season,all three will be joining us at the FTC Season Kick-off on September 11 in Orlando. The students,who hail from three different schools [...] [...] We wrapped up our LEGO Robotics camp at the Bob Sierra YMCA with an exhibition event for campers’families. Campers’LEGO TDT members,enjoying the calm before the robot storm art,rubberband cars,LEGO robots and more were on display. Families learned more about FIRST,while they watched campers’robot runs,and campers got to try out our [...] [...] It rained most of the morning so ALL the campers,from ALL the camps were indoors,one of our classrooms was flooded when a cooler was allowed to drain in the room,the other classroom had to be used by another camp group for more than an hour,and we had to resort to duct [...] [...] From Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy blog:PITTSBURGH—A new four-year,$7 million educational initiative by Carnegie Mellon University will leverage students’ innate interest in robots and other forms of “hard fun” to increase U.S. enrollments in computer science and steer more young people into scientific and technological careers. The initiative,called Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE),is [...] [...] Ken Johnson reports,on his FTC blog,on some ”behind the scenes”work for the new season:“We’ve now produced 2,500 Samantha WiFi modules and they are in transit to PITSCO/LEGO for inclusion in the new kits! As a reminder these are being provided free of charge thanks to the generous donation of time and money from John [...] [...] It works! Campers are catching on fast to programming and build principles in TDTs 2010 LEGO Engineering summer camp. Even New programmer students who have never programmed before are captivated by NXT G,and today enjoyed learning the magic of loops. In our build class,levers got a good work out, and some pretty sturdy looking attachments have been [...] [...] |    Visit Florida FTC on  | |||||
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