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Downingtown Area Robotics is a group of Students, Mentors and Sponsors, that knows it's important to get students interested in '''STEM''' ('''S'''cience, '''T'''echnology, '''E'''ngineering and '''M'''athematics) 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.) | Downingtown Area Robotics is a group of Students, Mentors and Sponsors, that knows it's important to get students interested in '''STEM''' ('''S'''cience, '''T'''echnology, '''E'''ngineering and '''M'''athematics) 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.) | ||
Revision as of 11:37, 18 May 2009
Flash = FRC event on June 6th, in Bridgewater NJ. Anyone interesting in going?
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.
Competitions
We build robots for two different competitions, FIRST Robotics Competition and the VEX Robot Challenge. FIRST Robots are large, at 24" * 36" * 52" and weigh up to 120 pounds. VEX Robots must fit into an 18" cube and do not have a weight limit. (insert FIRST and the VEX graphics here)
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 Education Center, 335 Manor Ave,Downingtown PA
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.com
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
