Location Evergreen High School, 14300 Northeast 18th Street, Vancouver, WA 98684 Kickoff Agenda Evergreen High School Doors open: 6:00 A.M. Local Kickoff Videos Begin: 7:00 A.M. Local Kickoff Speakers Begin: 7:15 A.M. FRC Game Reveal Broadcast Begins: 7:30 A.M. FRC Game Reveal Broadcast Ends: 9:15 A.M. Kit of Parts Pickup: 9:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Workshops: 9:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Lunch Break: 12:00 P.M. - 12:30 P.M. Final Workshop: 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. Food & Beverages - PLEASE NO FOOD OR BEVERAGES IN THE AUDITORIUM. Food or beverages will be on sale in the registration and kit pick up area, cash only. Breakfast: VooDoo Donuts, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Fruit, Granola Bars, Starbucks Coffee, Juice (Cost: $1-$2 per item) Lunch: Pizza ($2 per slice), Soda ($1), Chips or Breadsticks ($1) – see Lunch Order Form in packet Registration You need Consent and Release Form filled out for each student and adult team member in attendance. You will need all of them to register in the morning when you arrive (which is required to pick up your KOP). Also remember that members younger than 18 must have their parent or legal guardian sign the form as well. There will be volunteers there to help you with the registration process. At registration you will receive the very important receipt paper. Please treat this as gold. It will be required for the KOP (Kit of Parts).No receipt. No KOP. No exceptions. Also, you will receive the wireless password for Evergreen High school for the day for internet access. Where should I park? All attendees should park in the east parking lot of Evergreen High School. We will have signs for "Robotics Kickoff" directing attendees from those areas to the kickoff location. Please review the maps in the following packet. What should I bring with me? It is advised that you bring a hand truck or other rolling cart to transport your kit boxes to your car. Kit disbursement will happen in the student center and you will be able to load gear easily from the location. You may want to bring a camera, tape measure, and means to take notes on any field elements that are available to you on site. What is the kit pickup procedure? Kits will be available for any teams who have indicated such in TIMS. Teams may begin arriving as early as 6:00AM, although the live broadcast does not begin until approximately 7:30AM. Upon arrival, a team MENTOR must sign-in and receive your Kit of Parts (KoP) receipt. This piece of paper is what you will need to receive all elements of your KoP. At the conclusion of the live broadcast, team members will proceed to the student center to pick up their kits. Each station will have a different item and teams must provide their KoP receipt to that station volunteer who will check off that they received their item. Since the loading area is limited, only the adult mentor with the KOP receipt and two team members will be allowed in the loading area. Maps will be available for the pick-up and load-out areas. After all items are received, a MENTOR will be required to turn in the receipt and sign off that all items have been provided to them. If your team is picking-up a KOP for another team, you must have clearance from FIRST. The two teams must coordinate this in advance with FIRST. If you have not done this, please get it done now. This is done by contacting FIRST and obtaining a letter of permission. No letter. No KOP. No exceptions. There will be designated tables in the student center for each team for inventorying of parts and initial brainstorming. Will there be any workshops? The Kickoff will host a series of workshops for all interested teams after kick-off formalities on January 7, 2012. Rookie teams are especially encouraged to stay and attend the "quick build" workshops that are scheduled. For detailed workshop descriptions and schedule please see the accompany pages included. Rookie teams should make arrangements for snacks or lunch for their teams. There are several fast food franchises nearby plus snacks will be sold by the hosting teams. For workshop schedule questions please contact Bud Hayes: email@thehayesplace.com

2012 FIRST Kickoff Workshops

Rookie team workshop Veteran and Rookie team workshops

Workshop Tracks All times are

subject to change.

Mechanical Electrical / Programming Other

9:30 AM

Advanced LabView by Jim Chastain

RM 261

KoP Distribution

by Keith Wegmann

10:00 AM

KoP Inventory for Rookie teams by

Bob Hendel RM 718

10:30 AM Frame and

Wheel Assembly by Boeing Mentors RM 255

Make a Chain

Drive by Ed

Burdick RM 253

Build a Gearbox by Boeing Mentors RM 253

Intro to LabView by Jim Chastain

RM 261

Running LabView for

FRC by Dennis Erickson RM 261

Intro to Control

Systems by Tim

Bennington-Davis

RM 259

11:00 AM Rules

Review by Team

1510 RM 607

Bag & Tag

by Bob Hendel

Auditorium 11:30 AM

Crimping, Soldering, and Wiring by Paul Reetz RM 259

12:00 PM Lunch : Rules Review and Bag and Tag by Bob Hendel - Auditorium

12:30 PM Final Integration by Boeing Mentors, Ed Burdick, Dennis Erickson, Tim Bennington-Davis,

Paul Reetz, Jim Chastain RM 255

1:00 PM

Veteran and Rookie Workshops

Introduction to LabView

Leader: Jim Chastain

Description: Hands on exercises to learn LabVIEW development environment. Series of 10 examples of basic control

elements needed for robot design to help student gain familiarity with mechanics of programming in LabVIEW.

Examples include: Numeric computation; Digital to Analog conversion; Signal inversion; Parallel loops; Timing

elements; Enable gates; Local variables; Controls, indicators and constants. Examples of how to generate "problem

statement" to improve inter-team communications.

Students with LabVIEW installed encouraged to bring laptop. Some number of PC's available at school with demo

installed will be available.

Audience: Rookie AND Veteran teams

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Room 261 Computer Lab

Things to bring: Laptop with LabView (demo or FRC version) downloaded.

Advanced LabView

Leader: Jim Chastain

Description: Examples of design which incorporate system control and monitoring for Autonomous mode and

Teleoperated mode. Utilizes state machine design, debug techniques, shift registers, Global Variables and type

definition.

A Background state machine to control ball lift elevator. Utilizes PWM motor control, micro limit switches and time

delay elements

B Autonomous robot designed to navigate an unknown maze. Robot with defined footprint must navigate maze

with pathways > 2 times the dimension of robot width.

All designs based on FRC Robot Project 2010 Framework.

Be prepared to take notes.

Audience: Rookie AND Veteran teams

Duration: 1hr

Location: Room 261 Computer Lab

Tools to bring: Pen, paper

Rules Review

Leader: Team 1510

Description: Go over all the rules in detail

Audience: Rookie AND veteran teams

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Location: Room 607

Tools to bring: Pencil and Paper, Electronic or paper copies of 2012 FRC rules

Bag & Tag

Leader: Bob Hendel

Description: Describe how bag and tag will work

Audience: Team Coaches/ Shipping Mentor

Duration: 1 hr

Location: Auditorium

Rookie Workshops

KoP Review

Leader:Bob Hendel/Team 1510

Description: Go over the Kit of Parts (KoP) checklist. Ensure that all parts are there and make a list of missing parts.

Explain the parts and their function. Also give them a list of vendors for different parts.

Audience: Rookie team members

Duration: 1 hour - Leave at least one student for whole session. Rest go to different workshops after the parts needed for

the workshops have been identified and checked off.

Place: Room 718

Things to bring: Pencil and paper.

Build Frame and Wheel Sprocket Assembly

Leader: Ejvin Berry, Chris Imondi

Description: Assemble the frame. Assemble sprocket, spacer, and wheel and mount on the frame.

Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative

Duration: 1.5 hr

Location: Room 255 - Woodshop

Tools to bring: Allen wrench set, 2 each open-end and box wrenches and/or socket wrenches (sizes: 7/16", 1/2"), 10/32"

tap (preferable – but not required)

Make a Chain Drive

Leader: Ed Burdick

Description: Build a chain loop. Learn how to make master links and offset links.

Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative

Duration: 1.5 hr

Location: Room 253 – Small Engine’s room

Tools to bring: #35 Chain breaker, Pin punches, Master links and offset links (ANSI #35 size chain), small ball peen

hammer, pair of long-nosed pliers, locking blade knife, chain puller (optional)

Build a Gearbox

Leader: Jason Marr

Description: Assemble one of the gearboxes in the kit.

Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative

Duration: 1.5 hr

Location: Room 253 – Small Engine’s room

Tools to bring: 5/16” allen wrench, 3/16” allen wrench, 7/16” wrench (or socket driver), Small hammer

Running LabView for FRC

Leader: Dennis Erickson

Description: Install LabView on Classmate PC. Download FRC canned code. Walk through some major blocks. Compile

it. Download into cRio. Run.

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Audience: Rookie team - programming/electrical students

Location: Room 261

Tools to bring: Pencil and Paper

Introduction to Control Systems

Leader: Tim Bennington-Davis

Description: Describe what the different electronic components are. Plan how they are laid out and mount on a board.

We will be only mounting enough parts to control a single motor/gearbox.

Audience: Rookie team - programming/electrical student

Duration: 1 hr

Location: Room 259

Tools to bring: Philips head screw driver, a pair of wire strippers, and the magic Wago screwdriver that comes in the kit.

Crimping and assembling other electrical connectors

Leader: Paul Reetz

Description: Learn how to assemble the various connectors, which includes crimping and soldering. Cut wires to length

and add necessary connectors. Wire up all electrical components.

Audience: Rookie teams - programming/electrical student

Duration: 0.5 hr

Location: Room 259

Tools to bring: Wire cutter, crimper, wire stripper, soldering iron and solder.

Final Integration

Leader: Boeing Mentors, Ed Burdick, Dennis Erickson, Tim Bennington-Davis, Paul Reetz, Jim Chastain

Description: Mount the control board on the frame, with gearbox and chain drive. Run the code

Audience: Rookie teams – all sub-teams

Duration: 1hr

Location: Room 255 – Woodshop

Lunch Order Form

TEAM NAME:

PHONE:

COACH/MENTOR:

PLEASE MARK CHOICES

Lunch Options Quantity

Total

Price

Pizza - $2 per slice

Soda - $1 per can

Chips - $1 per bag

Breadstick - $1 per stick

TOTAL

All orders must be given to the registration desk no later than 11:00 am. Please

mark choice, quantity, price and pick up time. Form needs to be fully completed.

Orders without name and phone will not be filled.

Kickoff Evaluation Form

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Food Seating Workshops Communication Field Other

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