Monthly Archives: July 2015

July 30 Coaches Blog

This coming week: CAD: Sam will be running another CAD workshop Monday evening at 7PM at the CAD lab. Please sign up both so we know who’s been showing up and so we know there will be a class.  http://doodle.com/udxhwddzpap445w9 VEX: The underclassmen continue to do some great protoyping with the Nothing but Net game.  […]

July 23 Robot Coaches Blog

In BUTODAY there is a nice new article about the new College of Engineering specialization in Robotics.  BU does a lot of work with drones and quadcopters. CAD Workshop:  This coming Monday at 7PM at 15 Saint Mary’s Street.  Please sign up in advance on the doodle: http://doodle.com/7c6qu29rt45mh34c Tech Savvy Success: We gave a nice […]

July 18th Robotics Coach’s Blog

U Design: We just finished a great two weeks helping out with College of Engineering U-Design Camp.  Divya, Neil, Nimish, Max, Buzy, and Simon were a great help as assistant teachers!   Many thanks to Jordan and Lenny for giving a great tour and a demo with our Scorpion.   Our new head of school, Ari […]

U-Design Flight School Monday

We had a great first day in U-Design’s Flight School. We began the day by having every student making a paper airplanes.  Although this might sound simple, the challenge is to see whose plane can stay aloft the longest time or the longest distance.  The hope being that by the end of the week, as […]

Jan 8 Robotics Blog

I have had LEGO Mindstorms on my mind a lot. I spent a couple hours on my front porch this evening talking to Lester, the coach for We Are Robo, the #3 FLL team in the USA and the #10 team in the world! You really should watch this video of the We Are Robo […]

July 3 Robotics Update

Coach’s Blog, July 3 A big welcome to our new VISTA Americorp member, Abigail Cohen! Many thanks to everyone who helped to move our materials back to the lab from EPIC.  We now need to organize the lab so it is usable and presentable for upcoming tours. VEX Update: We had rising sophomores Neil, Nimish, […]