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Revision as of 14:02, 21 November 2009
Remember to read about Current Events coming your way, and the News of what we've done!
Who we are
Downingtown Area Robotics is a group of Students, Mentors and Sponsors, that knows it's important to get students interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) based careers. We do this through competition robotics. Our robots work in teams of two or three, working together as team on a common goal (not the robots that try to destroy each other.)
Driving the robots in Competitions is a small part of what we do. From the beginning we teach each roboteer valuable life skills like communications, planning, getting a group consensus, cooperation and negotiations. We also bring to life STEM skills in areas of electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, programming by planning, designing, building (and sometimes rebuilding), testing and driving our robots.
Contact us at DEWBOTROBOT at Yahoo dot com.
Competitions
We build robots for two different competitions, FIRST Robotics Competition and the VEX Robot Challenge.
- FIRST Robots are large, at 28" * 38" * 60" and weigh up to 120 pounds. You are given an inital kit of parts. You can buy or fabricate most any other part that you need from any source. The robot can be either bolted or welded, no glue or tape is allowed. The robot must be designed, built and testing in six weeks. There is a limit on the numbers of motors that you can use. The robot is powered by a single 12 volt battery.
- FRC is registered for Finger Lakes (RIT, Rochester NY 4-6 Mar-2010) and Philadelphia (Drexel, Philadelpha PA 25-27 Mar-2010) Regional Competitions!
- VEX Robots must fit into an 18" cube and do not have a weight limit. Parts may only be purchased from VEX, but they can be cut and shaped any way provided there are no sharp edges. Parts may only be bolted together, no assembly with glue or tape is allowed. There is a limit of ten motors and/or servos. The robot is powered by a single 7.2 volt battery.
- VEX teams are going to Penn State Abington VEX Clean Sweep Scrimmage on December 5, DockBot'10 on January 23, 2010 and will also hold and attend the Eastern Pennsylvania Regional Championships on March 13, 2010
Teams
There are a number of teams that make up Downingtown Area Robotics:
- VEX Robot Challenge -- VRC Team 80 -- our "All girl team" for 2009-2010
Meeting Information
FRC CAD (Computer Aided Design) Lessons - Starts Wednesday 2-Dec-2009 at Downingtown Educational Center. Those interested please email Clem McKown or Dewbotrobot at Yahoo dot com
FRC Team 2009-10 Season -- [DEWBOT_VI] - Wednesdays 6:30-8:30 Downingtown Educational Center.
VEX 2009-10 Season -- Wednesday 6:30-8:30 Downingtown Educational Center. Our 2009-2010 season playing Clean Sweep (info and schedule) has started. Watch this Clean Sweep Video and think of cool ideas.
We have started an "All-Girl" VEX team, come on Wednesday 6:30-8:30.
There is also a FIRST Lego League team.
Come to one of our team meetings or contact us: Dewbotrobot at Yahoo dot com
The Steering Committee meets on the last Friday of the month at 6:15PM
There will not be any Adult Mentor training until January 2010.
People
Thank you very much to all of our sponsors!
We would like to express our appreciation to all of our Mentors that work with the roboteers on a day to day basis.
Each student that worked on a robot is listed with that robot. Across the years we have graduated some very impressive students, you may be or soon will be working for our Alumni.
And a final thank you to all the parents that help us out.
Engineering
Click here for Engineering references and links.
