Teachers

=**Teacher / Mentor Page**=

__Keys for Success__:
 * Space** -- physical space to work and store equipment. CHECK! Thanks Jordan and Spencer!!
 * Money** -- have $2000 out of $10,000. Need a P&W employee to be a mentor to apply for sponsorship with them.
 * Time** -- ours and the students. Ideally, there would be an average of 2 teachers from each school. Also, the team needs 25 ACTIVE student members to keep work consistent and not overwhelm a few of them with work.

Teacher Coaches:
J. Canady || B. Howell || D. Baker || Mentors: Paul King (TSYS), David Rush, P&W?
 * Carver || Columbus || Early College || Jordan || Hardaway || Spencer ||
 * T. McElreath || L. Richardson || M. Leggett || P. Boling

FIRST Robotics Planning
Prepare email to send to teachers at home schools to recruit girls on the team. Email should be sent out the Monday or Tuesday returning from Thanksgiving. Also, put up some general recruitment posters. Can we do a demo at lunchtime at the different schools with information/brochures to advertise the recruitment meetings? Set up a female recuitment meeting for the first full week of December (Wednesday, 12/5/12?). Overall recruitment meeting (Thursday, 12/6/12)?

Training sessions -- topics: (for everyone) Team rules and communication, Design, Use of tools -- Programming -- Pneumatics -- Mechanical -- Chairman -- Electronics. For the training sessions, I think we challenge the students of each group to build a piece of what will become a practice robot -- maybe a robot that can carry one of us around (with a chair on it).

Parents meeting -- go over What is FIRST? Scholarships, College Admission experience, student commitment, and parent committees

January 5th, 2013. Kickoff at Georgia Tech. Leave at 6am. Bus? Check-in 8am. Kickoff from 9-12. Training classes from 1-5pm. 6pm Dinner at Neunan, Strategy Session. Back in Columbus by 9pm.

I suggest that we approach the season with a Design First strategy. Instead of having the students just start building, insist that they have a detailed plan before building ANYTHING, even if it is a hand drawn engineering sketch. I'd like to make it a goal to have 6 parts machined by students in classes. The schedule we need to set the team up for success if about the same as BEST with an hour added to the daily meetings and 2 hours on the weekend. We may also have to add some hours or Sundays when needed. The ideal schedule would have TWO teachers at each meeting and at least one mentor. We are short of both teachers and mentors, but we can try. If we can match the time requirements, we may have to reduce the meeting times which I hope does not happen. Below is a schedule. Feel free to sign up for a general time you can attend.

FIRST is 6 weeks long from January 5th to February 19. Competition is middle March in Duluth, GA.

(need 1) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || __Tuesday__ || __Wednesday__ || __Thursday__ || __Friday__ || __Saturday__ ||
 * **TEACHER**
 * COACHES** ||  ||   || Luther || Luther || 0.5Luther ||
 * (need a 2nd) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **MENTORS**