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New Member Orientation

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Team 2537

Space RAIDers

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FIRST Robotics Competition

  1. FRC and FTC are annual robotics competitions with thousands of MS and HS teams from around the world.
  2. Teams design, build, and test robots in six weeks.
  3. Teams welcome students of all backgrounds

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Cool Things that the Team Does

The team’s robot for the 2019-2020 season

Programming languages used by the team

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Cool Things that the Team Does

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Picture from a match in the 2019-2020 season

Testing an Arm

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What you can get from FRC?

  • FIRST scholarships
  • A great STEM-focused team
  • Big headstart on technical knowledge and soft skills needed in college and industry
  • Mentor/Industry connections yield industry skills/techniques/knowledge, college/scholarship recs, internships, professional network
  • Fun Experiences

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Team events

The team gets together at a Kickoff event to hash out ideas for the newly revealed competition game.

The Operations sub-team hosts outreach events that increase the influence of the team.

The team travels to different competition events. This one is at a big sports stadium.

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Sub-Teams

Software sub-team

We program the robot using Kotlin!

Electrical sub-team

We work with electrical and pneumatic components!

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Sub-Teams Cont.

Mechanical sub-team

We design and create mechanisms for the teams robots!

Business Development sub-team

We fund the team and increase the influence of the team through fun events!

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Training Meeting Dates & Times

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 pm starting 9/19 and 9/21.
  • TONIGHT AT 6 pm until at most 8pm will be a parent meeting, please inform your parent. If you know anyone who missed today’s interest meeting please inform them to go with their parent to one of the parent meetings.
  • 9/14 (THIS THURSDAY) will also be a parent orientation date, if your parents cannot make it tonight please have them come on the 14th. Parents will go to the media center first, then to the workshop next to room E172 to have a tour.

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Complete Onboarding

  • Reminder: Meetings Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 pm starting 9/19 and 9/21.
  • TONIGHT from 6-7pm and THIS THURSDAY 9/14 are also the Parent Orientation. Parents will go to the media center. If you know anyone who missed today’s interest meeting please inform them to go with their parent to one of the parent meetings.
  • Scan this QR Code to complete Onboarding after the orientation meeting!