7-12th Grade
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Join us! Embark on a quest to compete in the world's largest robotics competition.
you and your child are in a resource desert. we are trying to offer them something, anything STEM related. In our area of the USA the poverty rate is roughly 16%, this is worse than Macomb country (Detroit) and the surrounding areas. Source: https://www.povertyusa.org/data/2019/MI/ please be patient with your kids progress as they never had access to any of these tech related resources growing up, and be patient with mentors as they are all volunteers!
Start by looking at the tab and see what skill robotics needs that interest you the most. Then come back here and fill out the form at the link below.
Get a feel for the possible jobs, work that needs to be done, and requirements:
This is hyper-accelerated course that is hyper-focused on FRC. Everything around FRC should be considered a high school AP or entry level college class; nothing is easy. It should fill you with pride and accomplishment to even complete a few lessons or task. During the off-season teams meet 2 hours a week. From April to December we have 28 weeks. That makes 56 hours of robotics class TOTAL each year. YOU CANNOT LEARN ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS IF YOU ONLY WORK ON THEM DURING CLASS. I repeat, if you come to class and attempt to remember what you were working on last week, you are already behind. The 2 hours we meet is best spent on questions and answers about what you were learning over the rest of the week. The subjects you are attempting to learn are 4 year degrees at the COLLEGE level, such as Computer science, or mechanical engineering. Do not be discouraged, questions to the mentor show them who is most passionate about their results! and "dumb" questions are usually the smart students attempting to understand fundamentals about a subject.
Understand that this is like any other sport, and you will need to practice at home and come prepared to each meeting.
The starters on the basketball/soccer/football team LIVE AND BREATH their sport, if you live and breath robotics, then you have a great chance of being a "starter" here! you don't need big muscles to design the robot or program its movements, but every single day you do need to "practice" as hard as any football starter if you want the position of driver, lead strategist, lead programmer, design lead etc.