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 Also see the Louisiana FRC video website at: http://www.YouTube.com/PRforLaFRC.org

September 24, 2009 - Bayou Regional 2010 Announced

      
March 4-6, 2010

Alario Center

Westwego, Louisiana

 

http://www.alariocenter.com/

John A. Alario, Sr. Events Center
at the Bayou Segnette Sports Complex
2000 Segnette Boulevard
Westwego, Louisiana 70094
phone: (504) 349-5525    fax: (504) 349-5533

 

 
January 9, 2010 - Kickoff

FIRST Robotics 2010 Kickoff Event - NASA Stennis Space Center

Maximum 10 members per team
See map to Stennis Space Center under "Downloads"

 

NASA Stennis Space Center

FIRST Robotics Kickoff Event

Saturday, January 9, 2010

         Building 1200, StenniSphere Auditorium

 

                Contact:  Barbara Marino

         Office: (228) 688-1378

          Cell: (985) 259-0165

 

 

7:45 - 8:20            Arrival of FIRST Teams at StenniSphere

                             Participants Sign in at Registration Table

                             and Assemble in Auditorium

 

7:45 - 8:25            Complimentary Refreshments

 

8:25 - 8:40            NASA Video and Stennis Overview

 

8:40 - 8:48            Emcee

                             Chris Copelan, NAVOCEANO                                              

                            

8:48 - 8:50            Katie Wallace

                             NASA Stennis Space Center Engineer and

                             FIRST Robotics Coordinator

                             Greetings and Guest Speaker Introduction

 

8:50 - 9:00            Guest Speaker

                             Patrick Scheuermann

                             NASA Stennis Space Center Associate Director

                            

9:00 - 10:30          FIRST Robotics LIVE Broadcast from

                             Manchester, New Hampshire on NASA TV

                            

10:30 - 12:30        Introduction of Teams

                             Discussion with Question and Answer Session

Viewing of Sample Playing Field

 

10:45 - 12:30        Distribution of Robotic Kits to Teams

 
February 23, 2010 - Shipping Day

Shipping Day!

 
March 4-6, 2010 - 2010 Bayou Regional

Alario Center,

Westwego, Louisiana

 
- - - Past Events - - -

 
December 31, 2008

Each Louisiana team has a free website provided compliments of BLaST as a subpage of the LaFRC website!

Your website will be http://(your team number).LaFRC.org.
Contact the LaFRC webmaster at webmaster@LaFRC.org for the details

 
January 24, 2009

 

<<Postponed Indefinately>>

·         (8 hours) 2009 AutoCad Mechanical Designer Introduction for FRC [ITT CAD Instructor]

o   Agenda provided by instructor

o   (1-hour) Lunch

o   (3-hours) Hands-on Support ?

<<Postponed Indefinately>>

·         (8 hours) Website Development and Publishing [TBD – Searching for an instructor – Can you help?]

o   (1-hour) FRC Competition Rules

o   (1.5-hours) Applications: MS Publisher, Dream Weaver, NetObjects Fusion, MS Word, TBD,

o   (0.5-hour) Code Verification and Troubleshooting

o   (1-hour) Tips, Tricks, Pit Falls, and Good Practices

o  (1-hour) Q & A

o   (1-hour) Lunch

o   (3-hours) Hands-on support while students apply training to their project

<<Postponed Indefinately>>

·         (8 hours) AutoCad 3DS Animation Simulation [TBD – Searching for an instructor – Can you help?]

o   (3-hours) Hadn’t researched it much yet, ought to be some similar structure to the above

o   (1-hour) Q & A

o   (1-hour) Lunch

o   (3-hours) Hands-on support while students apply training to their project

 
December 13, 2008

Control System Training Time: 2 - 6 PM Location: ITT Tech Institute. St. Rose, LA Contact: scotmar@bellsouth.com

 
December 20, 2008

Robot Control System Workshop

Time: 1 - 5 PM

Location: Stennis Space Center. MS

Building 1100, Logtown Room

Contact: katie.v.wallace@nasa.gov
barbara.d.marino@nasa.gov

 
January 3, 2009

Labview Training for FRC Frameworks

Time: TBD - depending on potential NI instructor but after the Kickoff

 Location: Stennis Space Center, MS Building 1100, Logtown Room

Contact: katie.v.wallace@nasa.gov
barbara.d.marino@nasa.gov

 
January 10, 2009

Team Fast Build at Fontainebleau High School 8:00 AM until 8:00 PM or when your robot runs.

Fontainebleau High School
100 Bulldog Dr, Mandeville, LA

If you have trouble:
Scot Marshall (985) 640-0851
 
See Downloads for a map and detailed directions

The goal is to get the chassis assembled and a temporary installation for two motors and control system on the frame with wireless joystick communications to the robot from the driver’s station.

 
January 11, 2009

ITT Training Institute is our host for the Software Extravaganza.
(just like college, there are TBD classes based on instructor availability and student interest)

2009 AutoCad Mechanical Designer Introduction for FRC <<Postponed until 1/24/09>>
Website Development and Publishing<<Postponed until 1/24/09>>
AutoDesk 3DS Animation Simulation <<Postponed until 1/24/09>>

The agenda may change as the week progresses

2009 FRC Programmers Heaven (Sunday 1/11/09)

 

Bring your computer with LabView or Wind River. 

There was a second update (http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/lang/en/id/1180). 
Install the
FRCLabVIEWUpdate2.0.zip(91 MB) before you come.

Bring your controls set-up if you can so you can work on your code and ask questions after lunch.

 

Lunch will not be provided.

 

Check this page before you come for last-minute information.

 

 

 

Location:              ITT, St. Rose, LA

Time:                    8-hour programming frenzy @ 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Goal:                    Training in FRC software and programming elements

Offerings:            2 separate concurrent in-depth hands-on concurrent training opportunities

 

·         (8 hours) 2009 LabView 8.5.1 for FRC [Scot Marshall]

o   (1-hour) Overview – Project and Dashboard Frameworks

o   (1.5-hours) FRC Default Code VI (LabView FRC Programmer’s Manual Chap. 7 thru 36)

§  Motors, I/O, Sensors, etc.

o   (0.5-hour) Modification techniques

o   (1-hour) Tips, Tricks, Pit Falls, and Good Practices

o   (1-hour) Q & A

o   (1-hour) Lunch

o   (3-hours) Hands-on support while students apply training to their project

·         (8 hours) Wind River WorkBench 3.0 for FRC [MJ Miller / Blane Wesson]

o   (1.5-hours) WPI Library for FRC

o   (0.5-hour) Modification techniques

o   (0.5-hour) Code Verification and Troubleshooting

o   (0.5-hour) Tips, Tricks, Pit Falls, and Good Practices

o   (0.5-hour) Q & A

o   (1-hour) Lunch

o   (3.5-hours) Hands-on support while students apply training to their project

 


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