FTC Team 6700 Presents

FIRST Tech Challenge!http://xbots.orginfo@xbots.org

Team members: Nikhil, Sidharth, Satish, Ahan,

Anoushka, Nandin, Shreya, DanielCoach:

nagesh.chintada@gmail.comFairfax VA

: 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 info@xbots.org

THANK YOU!