Hello Flying Geeks,
Now that school is out, I am preparing for our summer Coach’s class.
This year will be a little different as I plan to separate the kids from the adults. I’ll be teaching the adults about building robots, programming, running the team, handling tournaments, etc.
But, the kids will be in another room learning Robolab programming, NXTg programming, and building projects.
This is where you come in. Some of our new kids need to attend the Robolab programming course because that is what we will be using. Rachel will be teaching most of those classes, with a little help from some of the current Flying Geeks. I’m looking for someone to teach the NXTg classes – I’m working on the content now. Finally, I’d like some of you hardware types to teach building techniques to the kids.
So, for those who haven’t completed the Robolab courses, you need to let Coach B know so I can schedule you into a class. Everyone else has the opportunity to either teach other area students, help others teach other students (mentor in the lab), or work on special ;p projects (like prototypes for next year’s robots).
Here’s the schedule (class 1 is very firm, class 2 is pretty firm, class 3 may change dates).
Class 1. Tuesday, July 10, July 17, and July 24.
Class 2. Tuesday, July 31, August 7, and August 14
Class 3. Thursday, August 23, Tuesday August 28, and Thursday August 30.
School is starting during the third class, so I highly recommend that our kids who need training try to get into one of the earlier classes.
Have a great summer!
Coach B.
