The Innov8rz team had the opportunity to virtually meet with an intellectual property attorney for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Denton McAlister. In this presentation Mr. McAlister explained to the team many things including patents and trade secrets, he explained that patents had to be revealed to the public in order to be approved. Patents only [...]

The Innov8rz team visited Velo3D Inc., a San Francisco bay area company, who specialize in manufacturing metal 3D printers for commercial additive manufacturing. Our goal was to learn about metal 3D printing technology and applications. The team at Velo 3D did a great job at demonstrating to us how their metal 3D printers work [...]

During the summer, the Innov8rz held several online courses per week about various robotics topics including WeDo, EV3, Intro to Design, Advanced CAD, Intro to Java, and Python. I participated in teaching and developing the curriculum for the WeDo, Intro to Design, and Advanced CAD courses. WeDo Course: With the WeDo course being the first [...]

Over the course of this summer, our team was tasked with designing a curriculum for younger students. There were various topics to choose from: WeDo, EV3, Intro to Design, Advanced CAD, Java Development, and Intro to Python. The topics I chose were EV3 and Advanced CAD. For EV3 I was partnered with Mihir, our team [...]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were without a solution to holding our regular outreaches during the summer. So, we decided to take things to the online world and teach students via video calls using Zoom. Over the course of a week, we all had worked together to develop the curriculum for 6 of [...]

FIRST Panorama Outreach @ Innovation Hanger at the Palace Of Fine Arts March 4, 2017 On March 4, our team had the opportunity of attending FIRST Panorama, an outreach event where FLL teams, FTC teams, and FRC teams were showing their robots and projects to both the public and other robotics teams. It was a great [...]

World's Fair Nano Expo Outreach @ Pier 70, San Francisco January 29, 2017 Besides our Scouts outreach, we went to the World's Fair Nano Expo, where many startup companies, showcased and advertised their products. From flying drones, to rings that can control your television, there was a lot of interesting technology there. In the [...]

Scouts Outreach December 4, 2016 One of the most crucial aspects of FTC is outreach. Midway through one of our engineering marathon for the robot, we had outreached to a group of Cub Scouts (Den 3 Pack 152) to inform them about the world of engineering and the benefits of participating in the FIRST. The [...]