Downingtown Area Robotics
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STEMRobotics demos VEX at GameExpo
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Our VEX partner and sponsor STEMROBOTICS.org is doing demos of Clean Sweep, the new VEX game at the 2009 GameX event at the Oaks Convention center. They will be there Saturday 9AM -6PM and Sunday 10AM 5PM. Come play Clean Sweep with them and help introduce new roboteers to competition robotics. They have 14 passes, contact them and get in as our guest. This is being billed as a premiere game industry event. There will be lots of games, music and of course Robots!
Foster reported back "Saturday was tons of fun, we ran over 60 matches during the day. To allow more people to play we created three robot alliances. We had help from Scott and Jarred along with Andrew and Joe from our prior mentor classes.
We will be there again on Sunday, stop by and help out or just see what Clean Sweep is all about!"
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.
- 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.
Teams
There are a number of teams that make up Downingtown Area Robotics:
Meeting Information
We meet Wednesday nights 6:30-8:30 at the Downingtown Educational Center, 335 Manor Ave, Downingtown PA 19335
There is free Mentor training on Tuesdays nights 6:30-8:30 at the Downingtown Educational Center, 335 Manor Ave, Downingtown PA 19335. Bring your VEX kits!
We are hoping to start two "All-Girl" VEX teams and 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
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.
