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Covid-19 and Return-to-School (2)

Posted on 14 August 2020
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Today, I spent an hour with a health and safety expert, the principal and vice-principal and assorted others. They had a look at the robotics lab which is divided into two areas: a classroom area with 9 student tables and a lab area with various work benches, table saw, chop saw,...Read more

3D Printer

Posted on 25 July 2020
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I expect delivery of a 3D Printer in August, 2020; officially described as: Artillery®Sidewinder X1 3D Printer 300 × 300 × 400mm print size support for resume printing [after power loss] filament run-out detection quiet operation Reviews are good and YouTube videos impressive; filament spools are available in different...Read more

CNC Router

Posted on 28 June 2020
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Moving forward, it’s time to figure out how to purposefully use a CNC router. There is no room at home for this so I’ll deploy this at the school (though I do retain ownership rights). After doing some research this is the one I selected. Made in China, reviews of...Read more

Robot First Aid Day – with Celt-X (FRC 5406)

Posted on 2 March 2020
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Many thanks to the Celt-X for their hospitality on Sunday, March 1, 2020 – they hosted a first aid day to help First Robotics teams with ailing robots. Ours was a controller problem with the Spark MAX controllers (we have not used them before) and we were able to get this...Read more

Dr. Woodie Flowers Explains Creativity, Engineering and FirstRobotics

Posted on 21 September 2019
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Dr Woodie Flowers is a long-time champion of FirstRobotics and gracious professionalism. Here he provides an interesting and succinct summary of what FirstRobotics is all about — essentially building character, leadership, communication skills and STEAM competencies in all participants, whether youth team member, adult mentor or volunteer. So, why not...Read more

Whole-person feedback in BrightSpace

Posted on 19 August 2019
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On the Instructional Leadership page, I affirm that “I believe we should build competencies — skills and knowledge of the curriculum — and the positive attitudes, ethical behaviours and growth mindset to be successful in life.” Feedback is an essential part of this. Nottingham and Larsson (2019) ask teachers to consider...Read more

Robotics and Best Practices

Posted on 16 August 2019
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Today a group from First Robotics Canada, Six Nations Polytechnic STEAM Academy and the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board met to move FRC7509’s strategy forward for the 2019-2020 academic year. The meeting was productive and gave me both a lot to reflect on and to do. Chris Mara’s name came up...Read more

Robotics in 2019-2020

Posted on 13 August 2019
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STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509), and I as mentor, learned much in our rookie year, justifying our motto: Not bad for a rookie team! We won the off-season STEMley Cup Championship in the fall of 2018 in Hamilton. During spring 2019 official competitions, we made it to the quarter finals at the Humber...Read more

Gracious professionalism

Posted on 11 August 2019
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Members of STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509) increasingly learned to practice gracious professionalism. expressing their appreciation to MakeShift (FRC4039) for their much-valued mentorship and friendship.Read more

Robotics Careers

Posted on 11 August 2019
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Mikaela enthusiastically investigates mechanical engineering and robotics in this video starting at 10:45. Consider also this video of how robots are used to construct Tesla vehicles. URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0″Read more

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