Club Idea

[MisterFuji]

I just found out that one of my co-workers from the East Coast is into
robotics. He is a member of the Downingotn Area Robotics,
http://wiki.team1640.com/index.php?title=Downingtown_Area_Robotics.
From the first meeting, there was talk about projects, competitions,
and aligning ourselves with an educational group. I think this blurb
from the Downington site captures a lot of what we talked about doing
with the club, with the possible exception of the CnC machine.


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.


Cheers,
Randle