A graphical schedule for the Championship Conferences at the 2023 FIRST Championship in Houston, TX. This data was painstakingly extricated from the FIRST Championship app.
Previously: 2022 version. Tip of the hat to Jon Stratis’ 2019 version.
A graphical schedule for the Championship Conferences at the 2022 FIRST Championship in Houston, TX. Based on a 2019 document by Jon Stratis.
1/2 day per page, color coded, calendar format. It makes it a lot easier to see/understand which items overlap, and might conflict with each other!
This presentation explains how Triple Helix designed our 4-bar intake deployment mechanism for our 2022 robot Genome Nu.
People with disabilities are often challenged to resume the activities of their everyday lives. Assistive technology (AT) helps people resume independent participation, however commercial devices are often expensive and unsuited for individual use. Occupational Therapists (OT) increase client access to AT, but may lack skills, material and equipment needed to make individualized solutions. In this presentation, we discuss the collaboration between our FIRST team and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Occupational Therapy program and present a model for establishing similarly unique and mutually advantageous partnerships to increase the skills of health practitioners, introduce real-world application opportunities to STEM students, and address community AT needs.
One of the most critical existential risks for sustainable-minded teams (and the biggest single reason that teams “retire”) is the loss of their champion– the 1 or 2 key lead individuals who hold the whole thing together. In this presentation, head coach Nate Laverdure discusses how the outgoing lead mentors, the incoming lead mentors, the rest of the team, and the team’s stakeholder community can plan and execute a successful leadership change.
Interested in getting into the offseason hosting business? Organizers of the Rumble in the Roads, Hampton Roads’ premier offseason FRC tournament, answer audience questions about running one of the most highly anticipated offseason events in FIRST Chesapeake.
Triple Helix student captain Glenna Gomez shares these talking points which were used when discussing non-technical aspects of the team with volunteer judges and other visitors at FRC events in 2020.
Head coach Nate Laverdure presents “Dropping the BOM: How Triple Helix built our most ambitious robot ever — under the most adverse cost accounting conditions we’ve experienced.”
Triple Helix shares an example of the slide deck we usually present to the team, and parents, prior to each competition outing during our season.
Triple Helix presented at the Virginia Occupational Therapy Association’s 2018 School System Symposium. The focus of our presentation was how therapy professionals can use skills and tools of “makers,” including 3d printing, to make customized products for interventions with their patients. Our partner in this presentation was Maryland FTC team Green Machine Reloaded; this team presented on their work with the Go Baby Go program.
Abstract: “Makers” use the engineering problem solving process, and their hands, to bring their ideas to life. The competitive high school FIRST robotics teams Triple Helix Robotics and Green Machine Reloaded share the makerspace techniques to rapidly design and create assistive devices. The two teams will demonstrate the tools and technical skills used to 3D print small plastic objects as well as how to modify ride-on toy cars to create low-cost adapted mobility equipment.