2016 FIRST Women in Science and Technology Forum

2016 FIRST Championship Conferences

Diversity and Inclusion

• Inspiring Women in STEM
• Not Just ALoTO Talking: Engaging Diversity and Inclusion (video presentation)
• STEM Connection: Girls Mentoring Girls Mentoring Girls
• Students with Learning Differences Can Succeed in FIRST (video presentation)
• Unified Robotics^TM: Empowering Students with Special Needs through Robotics

Education

• FIRST in Class: Learn How You Can Bring FIRST Tech Challenge to the Classroom
• How to Get Certified as a Java Programmer
• MIT Launch: Top Myths about Entrepreneurship
• Taking Your FIRST Steps into FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr.
• Re-engineering the classroom with FIRST Tech Challenge
• NASA: Learning about Pluto using Robotic Spacecraft
• Broadening Your FIRST Innovation Skills

Technical Resources

• The All Plastic FIRST Tech Challenge Robot: A Case Study in Organizing a Team around CAD/CAM/CNC
  • Resources
• Building and Contributing to WPILib
• Building a Testbed for a FIRST Tech Challenge Robot Components
  • Graphs of battery tests
  • http://swerverobotics.org/wp/
• FIRST Robotics Competition Robot Simulation Using Gazebo and Solidworks
• FIRST Robotics Competition Vision: Tips and Tools for Success
• Integrating Computer Vision with Motion Control
• Think Outside the KOP: Building FIRST Tech Challenge Robots Using Alternative Materials
  • Resources
• WeDo 2.0 Hands-on Training
• LabVIEW Command Control and Advanced Features
• Building a Testbed for FIRST Tech Challenge Robot Components

Mentor/Coach Resources

• Funding
  • Crowdfunding a Robotics Team, One Sprocket (or LEGO) at a Time
  • Dumpster Diving: How to Get Stuff for Your Team for Free or at Little Cost
  • Getting Into Grantworld

• Marketing/Branding
  • Maximizing Facebook and Twitter (video presentation)
  • Big Bacon Theory of Image and Marketing, Branding and Marketing your Team
    • Imagery for FIRST teams
    • Imagery Inventory
• Outreach
  • Spreading the Mission of FIRST to Germany
  • Walt’s STEM Toolbox: Using “Outreach in a Box” and “Camp in a Can” to Inspire any Community
  • Robots in the Outback (video presentation)
• Parent Support
  • Building a Sustainable Program Through a Parent Based Boosters Group
• Project Management
  • Project Management and Team Logistics
    • Scenario cards
• Strategy
  • Effective FIRST Strategies
  • Knowing Your Opponent: Learn Scouting Strategies and How to Use Tableau for Improved Decision Making
• Student Leadership
  • Principles of Effective Student Leadership in FIRST Robotics Competition (video presentation)
    • Worlds Recap
    • Summer Camps
    • FIRST LEGO League Recap

Tech Industry

• Go Ahead, Be Disruptive
• Forget the Flying Car