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1 FIRST Robotics: The Farm Team for Tech Joe Levy IEEE/ACM Information Technology Professional Conference at TCF March 18, This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit: Portions Copyright by FIRST and their member teams

2 Introduction Who are you? Has anyone NOT heard of FIRST? Who has seen a robot games video? Who has a child in FIRST? Who has been to a competition? Who has volunteered for FIRST in any capacity? 2

3 Introduction Who am I? Engineer and consultant Volunteering as a FIRST judge since 2014 Totally blown away by what these young people can do! Mission: share this story A whole lot more than just robot games 3

4 Introduction Purpose of talk So that you can recognize what a FIRST alumnus brings to the table Enlightened self-interest To encourage support for the FIRST programs Corporate Personal 4

5 Fun & Games... Competitions drive technological advancement Schneider Trophy seaplane races 1931: Supermarine S.6B 1925: Curtiss RC3-2 5

6 ...Until Things Get Hot! Racing engineers switch to warplanes Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Supermarine Spitfire 6

7 Competitions & Challenges : Schneider Trophy 1995 Present: X Prize Foundation DARPA Grand Challenge DARPA Robotics Challenge 7

8 Competitions & Challenges : Schneider Trophy 1989 Present: FIRST Challenges 1995 Present: X Prize Foundation DARPA Grand Challenge DARPA Robotics Challenge 8

9 FIRST is... For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Invented by Dean Kamen in 1989 A youth program A sport for the mind 9

10 Progression of Challenges FIRST Lego League Jr. FIRST Lego League Grades 4 8, 233k+ participants FIRST Tech Challenge Grades K 3, 40k+ participants Grades 7 12, 51k+ participants FIRST Robotics Competition Grades 9 12, 78k+ participants 10

11 The FIRST Calendar Competition activities Challenge release date Build interval Scheduled competitions Off time Skills training Outreach, business development Sustainability 11

12 Documentation Internalizing the process Team memory Tool for team evaluation The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. Adam Savage in MythBusters 12

13 Notebook Credits Team 4250: Lightsabers Team 365: Miracles of Engineering (MOE) Team 5037: Got Robot? Team 6134: Black Frogs 13

14 FIRST Can CAD Black Frogs

15 Brainstorming - Design Black Frogs 209,

16 Design Evaluation Black Frogs

17 Black Frogs

18 Running the Enterprise FIRST MOE NT 16 18

19 Managing a Big Team Lightsabers 5 19

20 Managing Finances Black Frogs 96 20

21 Enterprise Continuity FIRST MOE BP 8 21

22 Building Capabilities FIRST MOE T 72 22

23 Running the Numbers Lightsabers

24 Running the Numbers Lightsabers

25 High Concept FIRST MOE T 75 25

26 Competitive Analysis Got Robot? 16 26

27 Lessons Learned Got Robot?

28 Presenting the Enterprise 28

29 Presenting the Enterprise 29

30 Presenting the Enterprise 30

31 Presenting the Enterprise FIRST MOE NT p

32 Professional Skills Teamwork & co-operation Documentation Strategic planning Mathematical analysis Production cycle: design, build, test, evaluate Skill sharpening 32

33 Professional Skills Presentation & salesmanship Mentoring relationships; both up & down Entrepreneurship Organization Financial planning & tracking Sustainability 33

34 Conclusions A FIRST alumnus is way ahead of the game FIRST is worthy of your support Any level of help is valuable Your expertise is valuable The most important thing that any of us will ever do in life is to help the next generation get off to a good start. --Joe Levy 34

35 Thank you for coming! Questions? 35

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