Fwd: ComSoc V1 #66

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ComSoc <ComSoc@skyhelp.net> wrote:
> ComSoc                         Wed, 24 Oct 2001           Volume 1 : Number 66

In this issue:

        Southern MD IEEE Chapter-- Student Robotic Competition Support

Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:25:22 -0400
From: don@skyhelp.net (Don Rickerson)
To: comsoc@skyhelp.net
Subject: Southern MD IEEE Chapter-- Student Robotic Competition Support
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From:"Devereux, Wayne" 
      	
MONDAY Oct 29 - IEEE Meeting - SUPPORTING LOCAL 
ROBOTIC  COMPETITION
Date sent:      	Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:08:34 -0400

Free to all interested...

A presentation on:
- FIRST Robotic Competition -
How Our Community Can Support the St. Mary's Technology 
Center's Engineering Team

 Presented by:
Students from St. Mary's Technology Center (supported by 
Instructor David Buddenbohn)

 The IEEE Southern Maryland Chapter
of the Communication, Computers and EMC Society
will sponsor this meeting:

Monday  Oct 29, 2001; from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.  (brown-bag lunch)
at Veridian Engineering, 22309 Exploration Drive, Lexington Park, 
MD 

The FIRST Robotics is a national competition where teams of 
students design and build a robot which typically has to score 
points by putting a hoop on a ring ten feet in the air or putting a 
beach ball into a basket, all the while they are fighting off other 
robots in the field of play.  This competition has high school 
students team up with engineers and technicians to design and 
develop these robots.   The students will be given a six week time 
period starting mid January to complete the task and compete in a 
Regional competition in Richmond, VA in March - finalists go to 
Orlando, FL to compete in the National competition in April.  This 
program also need's major sponsorship; current sponsors include 
NASA GSFC, but other Gov't agencies and major high-tech 
industries sponsors are needed.   The FIRST Robotics program will 
provide the Technology Center's engineering students important 
skills in systems engineering, team-work, design and fabrication - 
highly technical skills our future work force in Southern Maryland 
need to stay competitive.

The Technical Center's engineering students are seeking the 
interest of any engineers and technicians willing to participate as 
Mentor's and Gov't and sponsors to help fund this aggressive 
program.    The briefing on Monday is to solicit the local 
community support as partners in this
intense engineering competition, please attend if you can.

If you want to learn more about the FIRST Robotics competition 
you can look on their web-site www.usfirst.org.   To learn more 
about the Technology Center's involvement in this competition, or 
further information on how to become a sponsor or an active mentor:

David M. Buddenbohn
Engineering Technology Instructor
Dr. James A. Forrest Career & Technology Center
24005 Point Lookout Rd.
Leonardtown, Maryland 20650
Off: 301-475-0242 / Fax: 301-475-0245
dbudd@ameritel.net  

  _____  


The meeting is OPEN to everyone (all IEEE members and anyone 
interested from the general public)  Bring your lunch, drinks are 
provided.

Please forward this announcement to anyone you know that would 
be interested in attending... Please print and post the attached 
flyer in high traffic areas.  (Adobe PDF file, MS PowerPoint file)

If you need more information or need changes made to the 
distribution list please reply by E-mail (heatherf@navair.navy.mil or
wayne.devereux@veridian.com) or call: Fred Heather at (301) 342-
6975 or Wayne Devereux at (301) 863-4290.