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== Mentor/Coach Training: Get a Chance to Build a Robot Yourself! == Adult Robot Training -- Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 Downingtown Educational Center -- Next meeting is October 20th, contact us to get signed up! We will wrap up building our Protobots this week. Come finish your robot and compete! Program your robot with RobotC starting a week from tomorrow (two nights). == STEMRobotics participates in Lights On Afterschool - October 22, 2009 == The Afterschool Aliance is dedicated to supporing afterschool programs around the United States. There are 1500 afterschool programs in this area. They provide homework support and other activities to keep school children engaged. At the Lights On event Foster did a short demo and then most of the 28 students available drove robots, ate browies and other food prepared by their fellow classmates. STEMRobotics supports the program at the Regency Center. Starting in November Regency will begin an eight week unit on creating and building robots. We are please to be part of the mentor training and support of their robotic activities. We've done other presentations and a throw-down there last month at the center. == Throw-down at the Church Farm School == The sounds of robot competion (and some rock and roll music) filled the gym at the Church Farm School on Thursday. Steve took his portable field and the foam cubes to play some simple games. The event was well attended with 12 students from the school driving robots. There was interest from the administration, the are looking at robotics as a scheduled activity. Thanks to John for setting this up and to Bob and Nathan for helping Steve keep the robots running. == Learn to Program Your Robot! == [[image:robotc_logo.png|right|50px]] On Wednesday nights, we are beginning to program with ROBOTC and a Vex controller and various motors, servos, and sensors. We will be running through the RobotC environment and programming our robots. We will also be looking at the sample programs and going through as many as we can over the course of several Wednesdays. You really need to set up your laptop before you come to the class. Here are the prerequisites:[[Setting Up Your Laptop To Program RobotC]]. Here is the link to download the [http://www.robotc.net/content/vex_down/vex_down.html RobotC for IFI] to program the Vex. Please make sure that you get the latest version (as of 10/20/2009 - 1.97 BETA, yes, ... a BETA --- we need this version for the VexNET components) <br clear=all /> == Start Your Team! == There is still grant money available for new teams! Contact Info at stemrobotics dot org for more details.
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