STEMRobotics
From STEMRobotics
Welcome to STEMRobotics!
We are a non-profit group that is bringing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to students by using competition robotics.
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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Workshops
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.
See Mentor Workshop for a week by week description on the sessions.
Events
The Current Events list!! Don't miss the Summer of Fun 2009
Some of our past events have been:
- Radcorp Summer of Fun 2007
- We held a number of robot build nights and some competitions.
- Summer of Fun 2008
- More events and more competitions!
Resources
Media:Steps_to_starting_a_VEX_robotics_program.pdf -- CMU's guide to Starting a Vex Robotics Program.
Media:VEX Robots for Beginners.pdf -- a guide to building VEX robots
Media:VEX for the Technically Challenged.pdf -- a detailed guide on building VEX robots, we use this for the Mentor's class.
Media:Robot Recipes.pdf -- a collection of cool VEX robots that you can build
Media:Clueless Coach.pdf -- timeless tips and ideas on how to be a competition robotics coach
Carnegie-Mellon's Summer Programs for Educators: http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/educators/professional_dev/index.htm
Sponsors
STEMRobotics is sponsored by:
- RADCorpis one of our inital sponsors.
- Kaloke Technologies is the other inital sponsor of our events
Techentourage is a new sponsor for 2009 and 2010.
If you would like to sponsor competition robotics and getting STEM education to middle and high school students please contact us!
