FTC Team 6700 Presents
FIRST Tech Challenge!http://[email protected]
Team members: Nikhil, Sidharth, Satish, Ahan,
Anoushka, Nandin, Shreya, DanielCoach:
: An Introduction• What is FTC?
• What do you gain from FTC?
• Things to consider
• Transition from FLL
• Team formation
• Cost
• Time and Timeline
• Competition and Awards: How to succeed
What is FTC, and what do I gain?
• To a complete novice : FTC is Robotics Challenge for middle and high school students
• What do you gain from FTC?
• LIFE SKILLS:
• Team work & Communication
• Competing with Gracious Professionalism
• Fund-raising and business plan development
• Presentation
• STEM and ENGINEERING:
• Engineering Process
• Career focus: Opportunity to meet real life engineers and mentors.
• Engineering Skills: Programming, Building, CAD, mechanical & electrical, sensors
• For Mentors: A chance to give back, mentor youth, and share your passion for your career.
• AWARDS!!
• Stay ahead with advanced skills for 21st Century and prepare to be future leaders and entrepreneurs!
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Cost of running an FTC Team • Team formation: Community teams!! Everyone needs to get involved.
• FTC teams are either community teams, or sponsored by schools.
• There are about 170 teams in Virginia alone! Fastest growing program in FIRST
• Team size is about 7-10, max of 15 this year.
• Need 2 coaches to register, both willing to under background checks
• Registration $275 - Rookie teams graduation from FLL can get this waived, but apply soon!
• Total Cost: FTC Costs $2000+ to $4000 to build and compete, but FTC offsets these costs somewhat
• Kit ( w or w/o NXT: you can re-use your NXT and sensors from FLL, but not EV3)
• Additional parts/supplies ( motors, u-channels, nuts and bolts, sensors etc): 0 to $1000+
• 12x12 Field setup; $400-$600
• T-shirts: $100 to $300
• Tools ( to work with metal, plexiglass etc) $100 - $1500
• Travel
• Funding is through an affiliated non-profit
FTC Season: A walk through
• Kickoff: Starts in September with game release on 6th September, and ends with Worlds in April
• Virginia FIRST hosted a kickoff with various workshops, access to champion teams and referees on September 27th
• Season
• Registration: Get the kit
• order the field
• Build the robot
• program it
• Do CAD if you are upto it
• Reach out to engineering mentors
• Build your robot
• Prepare for Judging, H/w and S/w inspection
• Qualifiers: December 7 through Jan 31: you can participate in more than 1 qualifier
• State Championships: Feb 28
• Super-Regionals March, Worlds in April
• Worlds April
FTC Competition and how to succeed
• FTC Competition
• Cascade Effect Game
• Autonomous, Tele-Op and End-game: Tele-Op is really cool
• Alliances, scoring, penalties ( this is big), defense and offense
• GP + Engineering Notebook is required for judging many awards
FTC Resources• Tetrix Mastery Guide
• PushBot ( new in 2014) specifications: a full blown robot you can extend for your competition.
• Other team resources
• Mentor Resources
• Parent Resources
• ANY QUESTIONS? email [email protected]
THANK YOU!