Originally Posted by
Cleave
@
waterrockets: BTW, I greatly applaud you for working with a girls team. We need as many technical mentors as possible helping girls discover all forms of science and technology and supporting their efforts in the field.
Thanks! I hope we can keep it going next year.
Originally Posted by
Creakyknees
My son and daughter have been in VEX rpbotics since 7-8th grade or so. The high school offers robotic as part of the STEM classes, and, the school robotics club fields 6-8 teams of 3 players / 1 bot for each tourney, and have been for years. I think it's one of the coolest things going, even potentially as cool as the metal / wood shop classes of the old days. Of course, much safer.
Awesome. If it's safer than shop though, I'm thinking they're doing something wrong. Or do they not allow bots with an axe on a hydraulic actuator?
"Sarah Connor?" THWACK!
In one of my EE classes at CU, we had an automobile electronic suspension system with a simulated load on it. I had a bug in my first attempt at a road smoothing algorithm and it slammed itself at full force. The entire 300 lb. system came about 2 feet off the floor. The professor yelled out, "Ok, who divided by zero?!?" The next semester, it was bolted to the floor. So, I'm thinking if we get an axe on this thing...
Originally Posted by
MDcatV
we call ours an "au pair" ... but i dont let her anywhere near the kids.
lol
We've been sourcing nannies every semester from the same sorority at UT.