Transcript WALTON ROBOTICS

MAKING FIRST WORK
WALTON ROBOTICS
C R E AT E , I N N O V AT E , I N S P I R E
Our Mission
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Flat Walt
• Develop personal and professional skills
• Inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM)
• Promote STEM as fun, rewarding and a pathway to a brighter future
Building the Future
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• International challenge
released in January
• 6-week build season
Developing Skills
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Soft Skills
Learning time management for build season
•Presenting
•Leadership
•Teamwork
•Photography
•Business
Writing
•Project Planning
Post- challenge design session
Hard Skills
Building practice pneumatic systems
•Safety
•Tool Use
•Programming
•Electrical
•Mechanical
•Pneumatic
•CAD
Safe power tool use
Promoting STEM
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Robotics workshop at DragonCon
East Cobber Parade
Elementary festivals and ASP
Rotary Dog Days Run
Atlanta Dream WNBA Basketball Game
Changing the Culture
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Crowd cheering for robotics team cannon
Robot launching robotics shirts to football fans
Students proudly wearing their prized t-shirts
Making FIRST Attainable
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• Promotes STEM, Walton Robotics and FIRST
• Paper robot with information on the back
handed out at team events
• Travels the world with new friends
• Makes STEM attainable
Flat Walt and friend at a football game
Flat Walt explores ruins in Israel
Flat Walt and friend at World
Championships 2012
Making FIRST Global
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“Flat Walt is such a cute and
innovative way to spread FIRST!”
- Mrs. Mathis, community member
Fun & Rewarding
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“I can’t wait to keep building robots when I start high school!”
-Meghan Boler, Dickerson FTC Team Member
Levels of FIRST
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Jr. FLL
FLL
FTC
FRC
• Host FLL Summer Camp
• Host FLL Tournament
• Mentor FTC
• Mentor FRC
• Host FRC Girls FIRST
event
FLL Summer Camp for middle
school students
FLL Tournament hosted by our team
Dickerson FTC team winning Think Award
Mentors
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• Role models for team members
• Strong bonds between mentors and students
• 20 mentors donate over 2,400 hours
Outreach Goal:
Impact at least 15,000 people
directly and _____ people
indirectly by the Chairman’s
submission date
Sponsors
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Destination Einstein
WALTON ROBOTICS – COOPERTITION IN ACTION
• Goal: Bring FIRST
World Championship
trophy to Georgia
• A joint program with
GaFIRST to house
competition field in
STEM Cell
Five teams joined us for a few rounds of robotic basketball
during the July inaugural event of DE
• Host scrimmages
and open work
sessions
• 12 Events and 20
Teams
• Girls FIRST Event
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9 teams
teams came
came to
to the
the inaugural
inaugural Girls
Girls FIRST
FIRST event
event
Destination Einstein
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• Teams that have attended DE
events include:
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Kell
Westminister
Pope
Wheeler
Grady
Pisgah
Blessed Trinity
Northview
Roswell
Engineering Goals:
Engineer a robot competitive Be
a winning alliance captain in the
2013 season
• Unites GaFIRST Community
Outreach Goal:
Walton Robotics assists Rookie FRC team Collins Hill
Impact at least 15,000 people
directly and _____ people
indirectly by the Chairman’s
submission date
Building Peachtree Regional
practice field parts
Before GRITS scrimmage with 6 teams
Soaring Higher Every Year
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2013
2012
2011
2010
35 students
10 mentors
11 partners
Knoxville Champion
World Championships
GRITS Champion
GRITS Spirit Award
30 students
8 mentors
5 partners
3rd place at Peachtree
2009
10 students
2 mentors
4 partners
40 students
14 mentors
16 partners
Engineering Inspiration
Entrepreneurship Award
World Championships
GRITS Coopertion Award
GRITS Outreach Award
43 Students
20 Mentors
20 partners
Chairman’s Award
Innovation in
Controls Award
World
Championships
GRITS Coopertion
Award
“You are a team we try to emulate.”
- Adi Ben-Yehoshua, FIRST Team 4272 Mentor
It’s in the Numbers
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Engineering
Nearly 100% of alumni in
STEMGoals:
fields
Engineer a robot competitive Be
a winning alliance captain in the
2013 season
850,000+ people reached
9,500 hours worked
6 of 7 continents reached
40 involved mentors & partners
“The highlight of the sports pep rally was the basketball shooting
robot…it's cool to be smart at Walton.”
-Assistant Principal of Walton High School
“Viewing the team from the rookie perspective gives me a chance to share with my
new team that Walton knows how it is done and is a really great role-model for both
veterans and rookies.”
-Susan Baxley, FIRST Team 4566 Mentor
GaFIRST Advisory Council Member