Chair: Charles Kim ckim@howard.edu 202-806-4821
Meeting Notice
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Abstract:
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is the key component of the non-profit For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology (FIRST). FIRST was founded in 1989 by Dean Kamen of Segway fame. FRC engages students and thousands of volunteer mentors in hands-on collaborative problem solving, and encourages development and growth of lasting partnerships between schools, universities, business and communities. FIRST helps prepare today's youth for the advanced workplace of tomorrow. FIRST participants in Washington, DC, include eight local high schools: McKinley, Bannekar, Cardozo, Roosevelt, Ballou, Friendship, Bell Multicultural, and Patriot Center. A scrimmage takes place during National Engineering week in February with a local regional at Annapolis. The speaker presents his role as a mentor at McKinley and his efforts of developing new mentors from his co-workers at the Naval Research Laboratory. The talk will center on the plans to develop new mentors quickly into contributing members of a growing team. The talk also includes the demonstration of the McKinley robot of a footprint 38"x28"by the robotics teacher and McKinley students.
Presenter: Jim Grove, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Jim Grove is an engineer with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and is currently working as a volunteer mentor with the FIRST robotics program at McKinley Technical High School in DC. He is a Naval Aviator and a Commander, a reservist in the US Navy. He has a Master's degree from the University of Tennessee in Chemical Engineering.
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