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.
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/
Find out more about the pneumatics kit for the 2003
First Competition, whether you are competing this year or not (click on the thumbnails to see the full picture.
(click on the thumbnails
to see the full picture)
Click here to download a medium resolution
.PDF
copy of the manual and parts list from this site. (approximately 1.1MB
-- about 7 minutes at 28,800 modem)
Find out about the curricula available to bring fluid power
to your technology classes.
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