Girls In Gear

From STEMRobotics

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(New page: On November 14, 2009, Team 341 held the second annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six...)
-
On November 14, 2009, Team 341 held the second annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six stations set up at Girls in Gear©, including FRC robot driving, FRC robot parts, observing the FRC and FTC competitions, a hands on driving demonstration by the organization STEMRobotics, and an area where girls had the chance to talk to women in STEM careers.
+
== November 12, 2011 ==
 +
Team 341 held the fourth annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six stations set up at Girls in Gear©, including FRC robot driving, FRC robot parts, observing the FRC and FTC competitions, a hands on driving demonstration by the VEXMEN and STEMRobotics, and an area where girls had the chance to talk to women in STEM careers.
 +
 
 +
The driving demonstration had four robots moving small soccer balls into scoring zones by the Girl Scout drivers.  Each driver got to participate in the 4 minute matches on the 8' x 8' field.  Most of the scouts were Daisy's (K-3) they drove with the skill and intensity of the bigger FRC drivers.
 +
 
 +
Our second station was a look at different drive trains, and the scouts got to drive a very cool X shaped omni drive, and a legged walking robot. 
 +
 
 +
The final station was a demo of a robotic head "Gir" from the cartoon Invader Zim.  The head has multicolor eyes that change with what Gir says.  Clips from the show were recorded and put on a storage card.  The entire setup is driven by a small microprocessor, similar to what is used in the VEX competitions.
 +
 
 +
A great day for both the scouts and the VEXMEN, looking forward to seeing these girls in a few years building their own robots.
 +
 
 +
== November 13, 2010
 +
 
 +
Girls in Gear is a Girl Scout program to introduce scouts to engineering. In our area Team 341 is one of the big supporters.
 +
 
 +
On November 13, 2010 the VEXMEN (actually the VEXMEN girls) and STEMRobotics did a demo for the second year. About 70 scouts played Clean Sweep on a reduced sized field. We had created 4 squarebots with claws to move the green balls around. Those and two bigger robots from STEMRobotics were our players.
 +
 
 +
As with last year the Daisy groups were the most excited to be able to drive.
 +
 
 +
Volunteers: Nicole, Christina, Emma, Adrienne Drexel, Bob Whalen, Foster Schucker, Steve Rhoads along with Andrew and Patrick from KTOR
 +
 
 +
== November 14, 2009 ==
 +
 
 +
Team 341 held the second annual Girls in Gear©, a Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education program, at Ramp Riot. There were six stations set up at Girls in Gear©, including FRC robot driving, FRC robot parts, observing the FRC and FTC competitions, a hands on driving demonstration by the organization STEMRobotics, and an area where girls had the chance to talk to women in STEM careers.
http://www.team341.com/girlsingear/images/gig_ftc.jpg
http://www.team341.com/girlsingear/images/gig_ftc.jpg

Revision as of 16:10, 13 November 2011

Personal tools