May 9th Updates

Preparing for next season!

SUMMER WORKSHOPS/CAMPS
LEARN SOMETHING NEW

OMSI/Autodesk --Girl's Tech Training (Summer 2018)
  •  OMSI and Autodesk are teaming up to provide you the opportunity to learn critical skills that will shape your future by becoming more able and confident in software development, design, programming, and coding!  Whether you’re an aspiring artist, designer, or engineer, get involved with a three-part workshop series and/or build skills at home.
  • Link with more information.  Contact Brian Berry @ OMSI with any questions.

Chick Tech/ORTOP -- Robotics Bootcamp for Girls (July16-20th PCC Rock Creek Campus)
  • Designed for middle school and high school young women interested in or plan to be on a FIRST Tech Challenge or FIRST Robotics Competition team for the first time (Fall 2018).  Hands-on fun for this fall's rookie team members.
  • Link with more information and sign-up!
PCC Sylvania Campus -- Robotics Shop Training
  • Co-ed Camp:  July 23-27th
  • Girls only:  August 6-10th
  • Only 2 team member per FTC or FRC team will be accepted (total not 2 each camp)
  • Only open to FIRST team members 14 years of age or older
  • Deadline to apply is May 30th
  • Link with more information and sign-up!
SAVE THE DATE!
We are working with OMSI in Portland to have an exclusive ORTOP night at the museum, including the Robot Revolution exhibit!  Mark your calendars for June 4th!  Details to follow.  All FIRST teams, mentors, volunteers, sponsors, family and friend supporters in Oregon are invited to attend.  Online registration will be required -- target date is May 15th to open up ticket sign-ups.






Have you heard about next years FIRST Robotics Competition game theme yet?  Kickoff is scheduled for January 5th, 2019 with kickoff locations in Ashland, Corvallis, Bend and Portland.








Fall Events

September -- LEAP -- Linking Engineering and Philanthropy has evolved next year into a parallel track along with BunnyBots as a way to get new students involved with engineering (and their teams) in the fall.  Last year it was a one-week thing, this coming year it will run about the same timeframe as BunnyBots kicking off in September with a discussion with a non-profit about a need they have.  Team’s will then have until mid December to work on their solutions which they’ll present in both “science fair” style tri-fold table discussions and a Shark Tank style pitch to the judges.  We’re excited to announce that the non-profit next fall is MercyCorps who will be deeply involved in laying out the problem they’d like our help with and supplying judges.  Learn about the work they do at www.mercycorps.org.  They’ll be hosting the final event at their headquarters in Portland.  Once again Autodesk has stepped forward to support the event with $7,000 in prize money and engineering judges.  We’ve found doing this kind of Community Engineering is a big draw for students who might not otherwise be interested in competitive robotics, at least at the start.  We wanted to announce it early so it could be incorporated into team's recruiting efforts.  Exact dates to follow but there will be a session at FIRSTfare.  www.team1540.org/leap
September 15-16th -- OMSI Maker Faire -- If your team is interested in participating in our FIRST exhibit featuring all 4 programs please email debbie-kerr@ortop.org
October 6th -- Girls Generation -- Application will follow in the next few weeks and we will have scholarships to offer teams.
October 20th -- FIRST Fair -- Schedule to be posted late June/early July @ www.ortop.org
December 22nd -- BunnyBots -- As usual, the game rules will be announced Sept 1st.  www.team1540.org/bunnybots
January 5th, 2019 -- FRC Kickoff -- Details to come

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