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Held at Downingtown Middle School in the Art Room

There were over 1000 people with Parents and Students checking out what stem is all about!

FLL

Scott and Jarred set up the FLL mission table on one side of the room. They had a steady stream of younger roboteers lined up around the table most of the evening.

VEX

The Downingtown VEXmen were there in full force! We set up a smaller 8' by 8' field and loaded it up with balls from Clean Sweep. We had 4 standard squarebots, plus the tri-bot (built by one of the 9th graders in the Introduction to STEM class). Our college friends from the [[[Knights of The Olde Robotic]] was there with two demo robots.

About 150 kids drove the VEX robots and received their Robotics Drivers License. Jack, Taylor, Mike L, Mike M, Nathan and Sadat kept the robots repaired and on the field. The robots were moving the entire 2 1/2 hour time we were there.

We also had a display table outside with our tri-fold that talked about the VEX program with all of the VEX trophies that we've won in the last year (a very impressive set!) Bob and Steve were busy answering parents and future roboteers questions. They got leads on two new mentors for next year and lots of sign up sheets were filled in.

FRC

Three robots (DEWBOT III, DEWBOT V & DEWBOT VI) participated in the demonstrations, assisted by 1640 roboteers Paul, Carly, Cole, Matt, Sasha, Douglas, DJ, Nichole, Jen, Michael & Andrew. Leslie Maley graciously provided a parent's perspective to those with questions.

While DEWBOT III just watched the door, DEWBOTs V & VI were both active in the demonstrations, including a roboto-a-roboto face off at the end of the evening. No robots were actually harmed in the course of the demo.

Domo arigato Messrs. Roboto.

Sponsors for 2010-11

While the event was going on both Clem and Foster made the tour to the other displays that had been set up. They talked to current sponsors to say thank you and to invite them down to see the robots. They also hit everyone else up for sponsorship opportunities. With our new information packet it will be interesting to see what kind of results we get.

They, along with Faith, also were able to talk to both the administration and school board members about continued support for the program. The primary topic was space for 2010-2011 and how we can keep our momentum up.

Mentors

There were a ton of mentors present from all three teams and lots of people that did extra work to make the event possible.

Big thank you to Ricoh for printing the materials created by Siri, Rita, Sasha and Nicole! Having detailed handouts was a great thing to be able to do. We also have them for our summer program.

FLL - Scott, John W

VEX - Steve, Bob, Foster

FRC - Rita Wall, Faith McKown, Gary Deaver, David Moyer, Mike Rizzo & Clem McKown

Photo Gallery

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  DEWBOT III watching the door

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  DEWBOT VI draws a crowd

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  DEWBOT VI ready to kick the ball

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  DEWBOT VI makes friends

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  DEWBOT VI with Cole & Gary Deaver

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  DEWBOT VI draws a crowd

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  FRC Team 1640

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  Rizzo & friend

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  Mike

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  VEX eye view

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  Robo Wizard

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  DEWBOT V plays Breakaway (that's just Lunacy!)

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  Battle of the DEWBOTS

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  FRC Team 1640 & DEWBOTS