The RoboJackets will be making an appearance at the National Society of Black Engineers Fall Regional Conference by participating in their Engineering Fair. The Engineering Fair will be on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 3pm to 5pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport. Participating members will meet at tin by 1:54pm the day of to pack and load.
Event Address
1325 Virginia Ave
Atlanta, GA 30344-5213
On Saturday, November 14, 2009 the RoboJackest will be host a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Scrimmage. The even is open to both any FTC team and to TE Sessions participants. The event will be held in the Atrium of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building and will be focused on preping teams for the upcoming state qualifiers by offering ample free testing time and as many simulated round as possible. To register fill out the below form.
Registration
- Deadline: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 11:59 PM
- Form: Web Form
Map
- Google Map
Schedule
- 8:30 AM – Teams Arrive & Setup
- 9:15 AM – Opening
- 9:35 AM – Free Practice
- 10:45 AM – Matches
- 11:45 AM – Lunch
- 12:45 PM – Matches
- 2:45 PM – Closing and Awards
- 3:30 PM – Teams should be finished packing and have vacated the event.
Caterpillar will be hosting a pizza night in the Student Competition Center on Wednesday, October, 21, 2009 at 7pm. Come out and have pizza with CAT and show them your projects.
This months general meeting will be on Thursday, October 15th at 5:30pm – 6:45pm in MRDC 2407. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Adrian Stoica from JPL. Dr. Stoica’s bio and presentation summary can found with the read more link below. Do note during this time teams will not beholding their normal meeting if one normally occurs. Pizza will also be provided.
Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech (RIM@GT) will be hosting a series of seminars for fall 2009. Seminars include a talk from prominent robotics researchers around the world and free lunch. For the most up to date info regarding locations and abstracts visit http://robotics.gatech.edu
Fall 2009 Schedule
September 16 – Noah Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
October 15 – Joe Wuensche, University of the German Bundeswehr
October 28 – Allison Okamura, Johns Hopkins University
November 11 – Rudiger Dillman, University of Karlsruhe
December 3 – Gerhard Sagarer, University of Bielefeld
The BattleBots team will be meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 PM.
Technology Enrichment Sessions will be held in Klaus 1116 at 5:00 pm on Tuesdays starting September 8th. Members are asked to meet at the SCC at 4:45pm to setup. TE Sessions will last till 7:30pm.
Core Sessions Schedule
- Sept. 08, 2009 – Teacher Orientation Meeting
- Sept. 15, 2009 – Intro to Robotics and LabVIEW
- Sept. 29, 2009 – Mechanical Power Transmission
- Oct. 06, 2009 – Fluid Power and Automation
- Oct. 13, 2009 – Manipulation
- Oct. 20, 2009 – Drive Types
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Autonomous Control: Sensors
- Nov. 03, 2009 – Autonomous Control II: LabVIEW Flow Control
- Nov. 10, 2009 – FTC Competition Techniques
Advanced Sessions Schedule
- Sept. 15, 2009 – Programming I
- Sept. 29, 2009 – Control Concepts
- Oct. 06, 2009 – Computer Vision Concepts
- Oct. 13, 2009 – Mechanical Design (Inventor)
- Oct. 20, 2009 – Electrical Design (EagleCAD)
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Electrical Design (Fabrication)
- Nov. 03, 2009 – CompactRIO I
- Nov. 10, 2009 – CompactRIO II
Note: Schedule has been updated due to effects of flooding on Sept. 22.
Planning and coordination meetings for TE Sessions will take place on Thursdays at 6:30pm in SCC.
