Girls In Gear
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(New page: On November 14, 2009, Team 341 held the second annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six...) |
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+ | Team 341 held the fourth annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six stations set up at Girls in Gear©, including FRC robot driving, FRC robot parts, observing the FRC and FTC competitions, a hands on driving demonstration by the VEXMEN and STEMRobotics, and an area where girls had the chance to talk to women in STEM careers. | ||
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+ | The driving demonstration had four robots moving small soccer balls into scoring zones by the Girl Scout drivers. Each driver got to participate in the 4 minute matches on the 8' x 8' field. Most of the scouts were Daisy's (K-3) they drove with the skill and intensity of the bigger FRC drivers. | ||
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+ | Our second station was a look at different drive trains, and the scouts got to drive a very cool X shaped omni drive, and a legged walking robot. | ||
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+ | The final station was a demo of a robotic head "Gir" from the cartoon Invader Zim. The head has multicolor eyes that change with what Gir says. Clips from the show were recorded and put on a storage card. The entire setup is driven by a small microprocessor, similar to what is used in the VEX competitions. | ||
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+ | A great day for both the scouts and the VEXMEN, looking forward to seeing these girls in a few years building their own robots. | ||
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+ | == November 13, 2010 | ||
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+ | Girls in Gear is a Girl Scout program to introduce scouts to engineering. In our area Team 341 is one of the big supporters. | ||
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+ | On November 13, 2010 the VEXMEN (actually the VEXMEN girls) and STEMRobotics did a demo for the second year. About 70 scouts played Clean Sweep on a reduced sized field. We had created 4 squarebots with claws to move the green balls around. Those and two bigger robots from STEMRobotics were our players. | ||
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+ | As with last year the Daisy groups were the most excited to be able to drive. | ||
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+ | Volunteers: Nicole, Christina, Emma, Adrienne Drexel, Bob Whalen, Foster Schucker, Steve Rhoads along with Andrew and Patrick from KTOR | ||
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+ | == November 14, 2009 == | ||
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+ | Team 341 held the second annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six stations set up at Girls in Gear©, including FRC robot driving, FRC robot parts, observing the FRC and FTC competitions, a hands on driving demonstration by the organization STEMRobotics, and an area where girls had the chance to talk to women in STEM careers. | ||
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