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Robotics Competitions – Burlington Community Robotics

The (former) MMR robotics team (now Burlington Community Robotics) is competing at Niagara College March 8-9 and at McMaster University March 29-30. Come out and see what these remarkable young STEM enthusiasts are doing, chat with them in the pit area about the robot and the robotics program, watch them compete...Read more

Vectors and Desmos in 3D

Recently, I’ve been working with Desmos in 3D. It is easy to perform a number of vector operations: defining a vector in 3D multiplying a vector by a scalar magnitude of a vector dot product cross product graphs of vectors are shown in 3D in a rotatable cube learn more...Read more

Joined Burlington Community Robotics (FRC 2200) as a Mentor

Yesterday, I dropped by the Burlington Community Robotics Shop to confirm my continued interest in supporting the team’s efforts. I enjoyed the opportunity to observe what youth team members were working on and chats with two other mentors. Today, I was very pleased to accept the invitation to join the...Read more

Developing Robotics Skills for 2022 FRC Season

A few days ago, I read a post that another team was developing skills to build a telescoping climber. I find this interesting because we too have been developing a telescoping climber. (I’ll add pictures to this post later…) We are using three tubes, two PCV of larger diameter and...Read more

Broken Wheel Award

Many of the robotics team members have graduated so this is a rebuilding year for our team — for many other teams too! Regrettably, the STEMley Cup competition is again cancelled (would have been November, 2021). So, our focus shifts to the 2022 season, we do want to engage team...Read more
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