High School Teachers' Page

If you are a high school (or middle school) teacher, this page is for you. It is aimed primarily at those teachers who are fielding a FIRST Team, but there is a lot of information for all high and middle school math & technology teachers.

Read all about the Watchung Hills Team from New Jersey.  Winners in the New York Regionals

Take a look at pneumatics in use at the Regional FIRST Competition in Orlando (pictures courtesy of Fred Hord of the FPDA. (click on the Thumbnails for the BIG Picture)

Fred writes....FIRST does not require teams to use any of the components supplied to them.
I expected that the NASA Regional would have around 28 of 40 teams using pneumatics this year. This was based on the count of custom cylinders they ordered. As it turned out, many teams used the cylinders in the kit and did not order additional ones. Our quick count came to 37 out of 40 teams using pneumatics. I questioned most all the teams and their pneumatic portion was working great. I wanted to thank all of you (the industry) for your help. We probably have at least 400 teams using pneumatics this year. Multiply that by an average of 25 students and you get around 10,000 high school involved with pneumatics this year. Adult engineers and teachers add an additional 1,500. It's reported that between 1000 and 1500 people downloaded or reviewed the pneumatic curriculum since the FIRST kickoff, January 6th. If any of you can see a Regional competition or better yet can make the Nationals, I encourage you to do so. The entry is free. Please let me know if you would plan see the Nationals and we can get you a badge showing that you are there on behalf of FPDA. NASA has it on live feed at  http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/