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'''Welcome to STEMRobotics!'''
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We are a non-profit group that is bringing '''S'''cience '''T'''echnology '''E'''ngineering and '''M'''athematics ('''STEM''') to students using competition robotics.
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Driving the robots in Competitions is a small part of what we do. From the beginning we teach each roboteer valuable life skills like communications, planning, getting a group consensus, cooperation and negotiations. We also bring to life STEM skills in areas of electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, programming by planning, designing, building (and sometimes rebuilding), testing and driving our robots.
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== Steve's Email Blast ==
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== Compete in Vex Clean Sweep ==
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Here is the [[Vex Clean Sweep|Game Animation]].
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http://www.roboticseducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/VIQ-IQ-Clawbot-13July301.png
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== Throw-down at Christopher Dock High School ==
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Steve is focusing on VEX IQ [[http://www.roboticseducation.org/vex-iq-challenge/]] these days. He continues to help parents and educators (and other volunteers) run VEX IQ events. If you can provide a location to hold an event, Steve will generally be available to bring at least one official VEX IQ competition field, a computer to run the software, and the knowledge to help you do the rest.
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On Friday, Nov 6th, We met at Christopher Dock HS.  
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== Throw-down at Regency Apartments! ==
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If you'd like to help our region (metro Philadelphia) have the best young robotics kids in the world, and are willing to be part of making that happen; email Steve at Steve.Rhoads at STEMRobotics dot org.
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[[Image:Regency_Apartments_Throwdown_PreStart.jpg|600px|right]]
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On Thursday, Steve met up with our new mentors at Regency: Crystal, Blake and Amy for the first of the 2009-2010 throw-downs.  
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They turned on the music, assembled the field, set up the robots and began competing in fast-paced, heart-pumping 2 minute rounds.
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== PSU Scrimmage ==
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There were 10 kids and a number of parents cheering the action on. Each kid was Driver, then Operator, then Field Reset. They also rotated through all of the robots that were on the field.  
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We had a 21 robots at the [[Penn State Abington VEX Clean Sweep Scrimmage]], played 23 matches, saw some amazing play and ate 50 pizzas, 6 dozen cookies and 10 dozen doughnuts.
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There were two converted ProtoBots (the intake wheel had been converted to a paddle), and two Explorer Claw robots, one of each type for each alliance. They played a variation of the Elevation game from last year
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We also had an amazing team of Combat Coders help everyone at the event with their RobotC programming: Mike Long, Taylor Gore, Sadat Shaik, and Shashank Bhargava. These young men tackled every robot brought their way.
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All-in-all, it was a great time.
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Here is a link to pictures taken at the event:
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PennState.2009.12.05
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http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=steve.rhoads&target=ALBUM&id=5412216148305104689&authkey=Gv1sRgCPbCqZnkt4GOwAE&invite=CLjaqcsB&feat=email
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'''Next throw-down is October 22 at the [[Church Farm School]] from 7:00-9:00PM.  See you there!'''
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== Combat Coding ==
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Wednesday (Nov 18, 2009), we met again.
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This time, Foster had the programming team working on mechanical construction with their respective teams, BUT Taylor Gore took a moment off building to demonstrate some solid Combat Coding! He programmed a holonomic drive for another team (?Team 84?). He made sure that he enabled the Y-Axis of both joysticks plus the buttons on the back of the transmitter all worked together to strafe, drive forward, rotate and back up.
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Very impressive! Good job, Taylor!
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Previous [[Combat Coding]] demonstrations!
== Low-Cost FIELD! ==
== Low-Cost FIELD! ==
There is NO REASON for every club/team not to have a field! It was easy to put together, and the cost was nominal (at most ~ $100. I think that my costs were closer to about $75.00) The result is very lightweight, yet sturdy, and transportable! Join us at one of our throw-downs and take a look.
There is NO REASON for every club/team not to have a field! It was easy to put together, and the cost was nominal (at most ~ $100. I think that my costs were closer to about $75.00) The result is very lightweight, yet sturdy, and transportable! Join us at one of our throw-downs and take a look.
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'''Welcome to STEMRobotics!'''
 
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We are a non-profit group that is bringing '''S'''cience '''T'''echnology '''E'''ngineering and '''M'''athematics ('''STEM''') to students by using competition robotics.
 
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Driving the robots in Competitions is a small part of what we do. From the beginning we teach each roboteer valuable life skills like communications, planning, getting a group consensus, cooperation and negotiations. We also bring to life STEM skills in areas of electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, programming by planning, designing, building (and sometimes rebuilding), testing and driving our robots.
 
== Workshops ==
== Workshops ==
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Tuesday nights: 6:30-8:30pm. We will be working through the Yolande Petersen Guides below in Resources. (Downingtown Education Center, 355 Manor Ave, Downingtown, PA 19335) Our primary resource is ''VEX for the Technically Challenged''.
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Looking for a location sponsor. Can you host these workshops?
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We will be working through the Yolande Petersen Guides below in Resources. Our primary resource is ''VEX for the Technically Challenged''.
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See [[Mentor Workshop]] for a week by week description on what is planned and [[Summer 2009 Mentor Workshop]] for what happened at each session.
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See [[Mentor Workshop]] for a week by week description on what is planned.
== Events: Throw-downs, Workshops and Competitions! ==
== Events: Throw-downs, Workshops and Competitions! ==
[[VEX Programming]] Information about the VEX Programming environments
[[VEX Programming]] Information about the VEX Programming environments
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[http://content.vexrobotics.com/docs/Cortex_UserGuide_1010.pdf  The latest Cortex User's Guide, it has all of the color codes for the status lights]
== Mid-Atlantic VEX Partner ==
== Mid-Atlantic VEX Partner ==

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