MRA Education Day 2018

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MRA is proud to announce that Education Day 2018 was October 27th, at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. It was a great day, and we all learned so much!

For a link to the presentations, see the following table:

Time	Building Your Team	Taking Your Team to the Next Level	FRC Essentials	Tools and Techniques	Robot Building 101	Advanced Robot Building Topics	Software	Hands-On	For Mentors Only	For Students Only
08:30 – 09:20	Intro to First Agenda	Managing Your Robot Build Project	Surviving Inspection	Inventor, Solidworks and Creo	I’ve got a feeling – Basic sensors for FRC Robots		FRC Software for Beginners	Kit Bot Chassis build	Robots are diverse; Robotics teams should be, too. Brainstorming on How to Increase Diversity on Teams
0930 – 10:20	On the Internet, Nobody Knows you’re a Dog; How to Make your Team Look Big and Impressive	Outreach: Looking for that Perfect Win-Win	Pit Organization and Management- Keep Your Pit from Being In the Pits	Solid Modeling, Assembling and Sharing	Chassis and Drive Train 101	The one eyed man is king – Advanced sensors for FRC Robots	Applying Agile Scrum Methodology to FRC		Growing Student Leaders	FIRST & college: college students panel Agenda
1030 – 11:20	Team Organization	Awards: Telling Your Team’s Story in 15 Minutes—or Less!	Fundraising 101	CNC router for FRC: a First-Year Story	Tugs and Taps – Avoiding the dreaded electrical reboot		Patterns for Successful Software – More than Working Code			Team Captains Roundtable
11:30 – 12:20	Lunch
12:30 – 1:20		Lobbying the Government – Benefits to Teams and Team Members Agenda	Safety Management	Fabrication Techniques	Motors 101	Acronyms Galore – Wired for Success	Software FIRST		Rookie Mentor Tips and Preparation
1:30 – 2:20	Build a Cohesive Culture with Team Building Tips for Teens	Game Strategy and Analysis, With Head Ref Q&A	Don’t get Bypassed because of Field Connection Issues; The FMS and How Your Robot Connects	Hotter Than Your Oven- Successfully Melting Plastics for Fun and Games	PSST! Want to use the power of the Air? Basic Pneumatics for FRC Robotics	So You’ve Designed a Mechanism – Designing Top-Down so It Doesn’t Crash Down			Effectively Engaging Students	FIRST & college: college officials panel Agenda
2:30 – 3:20				To Weld: MIG, TIG or ARC?	Manipulators 101	Robot Autonomous and Autonomy		The Petting Zoo – Sensors and Cabling examples	Mentor Roundtable