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Recent McMinnville Robotics Alliance News:
Recent McMinnville Robotics Alliance News:
3rd Grade Robotics Mentors - Inspiring the elementary aged students in our schools to experience robotics and consider joining an FLL team in one of our elementary school after school programs.
3rd Grade Robotics Mentors - Inspiring the elementary aged students in our schools to experience robotics and consider joining an FLL team in one of our elementary school after school programs.
Jake Bartley has volunteered his time, thoughtful questioning, and mechanical expertise for three straight seasons now, joining us for our meetings 2-3 times each week. We have learned a lot from him and we're always looking for more people to come work with us! Thank you, Jake!
Jake Bartley has volunteered his time, thoughtful questioning, and mechanical expertise for three straight seasons now, joining us for our meetings 2-3 times each week. We have learned a lot from him and we're always looking for more people to come work with us! Thank you, Jake!
February 11, 2018
February 11, 2018
Super Qualifying Tournament @ Evergreen Middle School in Hillsboro, OR
Super Qualifying Tournament @ Evergreen Middle School in Hillsboro, OR
January 28, 2018
January 28, 2018
DW Fritz: Bring-Your-Problem-to-Work Day Day #2. Thank you, DW Fritz for your support and for providing this valuable opportunity (and pizza)!
DW Fritz: Bring-Your-Problem-to-Work Day Day #2. Thank you, DW Fritz for your support and for providing this valuable opportunity (and pizza)!
January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017
Qualifying Tournament & Oregon State University's Kelley Engineering Center
Qualifying Tournament & Oregon State University's Kelley Engineering Center
January 17, 2018
January 17, 2018
Laura and Byron each represented their FTC team as featured guests on Local Matters with Ken Moore. Thank you, Ken, for giving us the opportunity to share our work with the community!
Laura and Byron each represented their FTC team as featured guests on Local Matters with Ken Moore. Thank you, Ken, for giving us the opportunity to share our work with the community!
Jan-Term, 2018
Jan-Term, 2018
Dan Ford, computer science professor from Linfield, offered his time and insight to work with our programmers as we prepared for competition. Thank you, Dan!
Dan Ford, computer science professor from Linfield, offered his time and insight to work with our programmers as we prepared for competition. Thank you, Dan!
December 6, 2017
December 6, 2017
Yamhill County Scrimmage Tournament #2 held in our Engineering Projects classroom at Evergreen Space Museum. Nine teams were present!
Yamhill County Scrimmage Tournament #2 held in our Engineering Projects classroom at Evergreen Space Museum. Nine teams were present!
November 8, 2017
November 8, 2017
Vernier & Project Lead the Way
Vernier & Project Lead the Way
November 11, 2017
November 11, 2017
DW Fritz - Bring-Your-Problem-to-Work Day #1
DW Fritz - Bring-Your-Problem-to-Work Day #1
October 11, 2017
October 11, 2017
US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, visits our classroom to check out our work and talk about how we're getting more students, especially girls involved in the robotics program.
US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, visits our classroom to check out our work and talk about how we're getting more students, especially girls involved in the robotics program.
September 28
September 28
The high school robotics teams lent a hand in helping get our 3rd Grade Robotics program up and running with their new LEGO Mindstorm EV3 kits. The parts needed to be sorted, kits needed to be organized, and the bricks needed to be named and have the firmware updated. Thanks to the 80 hours of work (20 students x 4 hours), all of the 3rd graders in McMinnville schools will have their kits ready this week!
September 23, 2017
September 23, 2017
For the opening of the MHS new Careers in Technical Education building, our robotics teams eagerly shared the start of their robot chassis and informed the public about how robotics is an exceptional way to put engineering in action.
September 27, 2017
September 27, 2017
The entire MHS student body was able to meet and engage with our teams at the Club Fair!
The entire MHS student body was able to meet and engage with our teams at the Club Fair!
On September 17th, several members of the robotics teams went to the McMinnville Rotary Bocce Tournament. We did this to help support the local Rotary group along with to help spread the word of MRA robotics. Our teams didn’t do the best, but we were able to connect with a lot of people about what robotics was and how we would appreciate another grant from them for the upcoming robotics season. - by C.T.
On September 17th, several members of the robotics teams went to the McMinnville Rotary Bocce Tournament. We did this to help support the local Rotary group along with to help spread the word of MRA robotics. Our teams didn’t do the best, but we were able to connect with a lot of people about what robotics was and how we would appreciate another grant from them for the upcoming robotics season. - by C.T.
June 24
June 24
During the last week of June we volunteered at our 8th annual middle school Girls' STEM camp. A few of the girls from our teams assisted our coach in teaching a class at the camp. For a few years, we have been very lucky to have three vinyl cutters in our district, widening our opportunities for fundraising with the vinyl decals. We got these and both corresponding programs, Rhinoceros 5 and Graphtec Studio, as well as training, from nearby Sherwood School District. We greatly appreciated their help, so now we are working to give back, outreach, and share this fun tool with as many kids as we can.
by K. Kam
May 30
May 30
NWUAV produces the engines for unmanned vehicles. They are a sister company to NW Rapid and support FIRST robotics teams. They do campus tours to show students about their field of engineering and we were grateful for the chance to learn more about how engineering are designing, testing, and revising in our own community.
by B. Nice
May 20
May 20
During the local 2017 McMinnville UFO Festival we shared with our community the pleasure of FIRST. In a shared booth, we sold products like glassware, 3-D printed fidget spinners, and vinyl decals to the public and successfully raised funds and outreached, to locals and to the many who travel across the country for the festival. We also had our own float in the parade, with our team numbers on a large banner on the side of a truck. We blew bubbles for the kids to pop, and drove last season's robots in a short trailer for the crowd to see, the physical amazing outcome FTC gives us.
by K. Kam
May 18
May 18
One of the ways we have connected with our local community is a Robotics Clinic, where we were invited to work with young kids to have fun and experiment with robotics, similar to the engineering design our FTC robotics teams do. We taught them how to use a simple program to control a small robot, made from a LEGO robotics kit, complete with different types of sensors. Our teams sometimes help kids with the programming so that they can understand how it works. The kids are allowed to program the robot to do whatever they want, allowing them to think outside the box and encourage them to get involved in more robotics programs in the future.
by M. Crain
May 18
May 18
Both MHS teams, 11441 and 11442, sent representatives to present at an all school assembly at Grandhaven Elementary School. We briefly talked about how each of our robots work and we also talked about FIRST. When asked who wanted to participate in robotics, almost the entire gym raised their hands! We wanted to raise awareness for robotics opportunities and ways to get involved.
by L. Denney
May 4
May 4
Duniway FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) robotics teams Lord of the Gears and Aftershock hosted a our 3rd Annual Robotics Night. The event was open to the community of McMinnville, and was represented by the six McMinnville Robotics Alliance teams that participated. Also, there was one FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) team from McMinnville High School that attended, which was Nerd Herd. All teams spent the evening showing off their robots, sharing their programs, and even helping the younger students get their first glimpse of the opportunities available. The evening also allowed guests to program an NXT robot; similar to what the FLL level of robotics utilizes for their tournaments. As a conclusion to the night, there was a bunch of picture taking, awe inspired children and adults, and teams getting to interact with one another again after competition season. Robotics club member's minds are sure to be brimming with excitement in anticipation of the 2017-18 season!
by R. Joel
April 26
April 26
Our visit to NW Rapid was an amazing experience. I would recommend anyone to go and visit this company because they had so many unique things that I have never seen before. The way that this company 3-D prints things is so cool to me. They put down a very thin layer of this material and then a laser comes and that is how it is formed. It's called Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). They let us get the finished product and explained that if people wanted to print things that would be fragile, this is the best option. Freestanding 3-D printers are harder to print things that are fragile because there is more of a chance that the object that you print will break. This company is an amazing company that cares about what they do and about bring engineers back to our community to work in cutting edge technical jobs.
by K. Morain
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