Class Curriculum

These are learning resources that are used by 8608 as class assignments. Mostly lecture and discussion format, but are recorded here for anyone to think and grow on.

How to use

Have a mentor read over a class discussion topic and understand it fully, then take an entire class period to explain it out to their class. This should be done without much stopping or slowing down in an attempt to keep the students highly engaged. Note takers should instead be given the link to the class day material so that they can stay with the mentor as they teach.

Schedule

January - April is "on season" and generally we do not do class lectures because we are driving towards a goal.

May

Wk1 - Time off

Wk2 - Time off

Wk3 - Time off

Wk4 - Time off

June

Wk1 - welcome to off-season & orientation

Class orientation

Wk2 - safety and event expectations

Wk3 - Basic hand tools and safety expectations

Class - Hand Tools

Wk4 - OPEN HOUSE (no learning most likely doing setup for open house)

July

Wk1 - design - material properties and their choices

Wk2 - design - things that wont break

Wk3 - design - dry run of coming up with 3 years ago's game. (pretend its 3 years ago on game kickoff)

Wk4 - design - 3d cad start, 30 days of cad first 3 days, design a gearbox, inserting mcmaster parts. joint connections.

August

Wk1 - programming setup wpilib , running simulation, hello world , then making a variable and hello world with variable, import libraries for sparkmax/CTRE

Wk2 - programming continued, setup CTRE generated chassis, learn command based structure, learn command based composition.

Wk3 - programming continued?

August 18, 2025 - FIRST DAY of SCHOOL at CCS - robotics is now 3:30-5:30pm

Wk4 - advanced tools (cnc and laser) learn about and ceritfication

September

Wk1 - How we fundraise, how we pay for this program.

Wk2 - fundraising and you, thank you notes and presentations for new donors.

Wk3 - what is this clsas for? what is a control systems engineer

Control Systems Engineer

Wk4 - parts suppliers and parts we use to design

Parts Suppliers

October

Wk1 -

Wk2 -

Wk3 -

Wk4 -

November

Wk1 -

Wk2 -

Wk3 -

Wk4 - Thanksgiving OFF

December

Wk1 - Kick-Off

Wk2 -

Wk3 - Christmas OFF

Wk4 - Christmas OFF