2006 TE Sessions

FIRST Technology Enrichment Sessions 2006

The TE sessions for this year will be once a week and 3 hours long. However, this year the sessions will have the lecturing distributed throughout each session such that there should not be more than 20 mins of lecturing at a time. We will be attempting to use more hands on activities to allow students to gain a clearer understanding of the engineering concepts. The mechanical sessions will be based entirely on Vex kits. As in the past two years, we will be holding a basic TE session

Basic TE Session

Location: Love Buildling, Rm 185

Timeline:

• 9/30/06 - Basic TE
  • Breakfast provided
  • Introduction to FIRST
  • Team Organization, Planning and Fundraising
  • Example FRC Robots
  • Lunch provided
  • Introduction to building robots using Vex

Advanced TE Sessions

Location: MRDC Rm 2406 & 2404

Timeline:

• 9/26/06 - TE#1
  • Mechanical - Intro & Physical Concepts
  • Programming - IIntro to Programming
• 10/3/06 - TE#2
  • Mechanical - Frames, Chassis, Drive trains 1
  • Programming - Programming basics
• 10/10/06 - TE#3
  • Mechanical - Drive Trains 2, Gearboxes
  • Programming - Introduction to C Programming
• 10/17/06 - TE#4 (Fall Break)
  • Mechanical - Manipulators: Arms and Conveyors
  • Programming - Compiling, Uploading, and IDE's
• 10/24/06 - TE#5
  • Mechanical - Fluid Power: Pneumatics
  • Programming - More C Programming
• 11/7/06 - TE#6
  • Mechanical - Design Tools
  • Programming - Flow Control
• 11/14/06 - TE#7
  • Mechanical - System Demo & Competition Bot Build
  • Programming - Input and Output
• 11/21/06 (Skip Thanksgiving week)
• 11/28/06 - TE#8
  • Mechanical - System Demo & Competition Bot Build
  • Programming - Commonly used Algorithms using Vex
• 12/5/06 - TE#9 (Dead Week)
  • Final Competition

Current Schools attending

• Booker T. Washington High School
• Shiloh High School
• Apalachee High School team 1
• Apalachee High School team 2
• The Advanced Academy of Georgia
• Forsyth Alliance
• Roswell High School
• Norcross High School
• Carver School of Technology (10th grade intermediate team)
• Carver School of Technology (9th grade beginner team)
• Southside High School
• Kell High School
• Chamblee Charter High School
• Northview High School
• Wheeler High School
• Stephenson High School
• 100 Scholars Program - 100 Black Men of Atlanta

TE Sessions roster

• TE session roster 2006