Virtual Machine Shop -

Welcome to the Virtual Machine Shop
Machine tool training and instruction online

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The Virtual Machine Shop (VMS) is a web site dedicated to the perpetuation of machine tool knowledge and training. This project is designed and maintained by volunteers from industry and academia and is free to everyone. Please feel free to learn here. Please feel free to teach here. The VMS is supported by donations (a donation of as little as $2.00 helps keep this site going).

via jjjtrain.com

Great resource for machine shop training.

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TEES - TRC: Shop and Tool Safety Training

Course Description: This course will provide a basic overview of the hazards involved with use of shop equipment and tools, and how to reduce the risk of such hazards to acceptable levels.

As a result of this course, trainees will be able to:

• Describe general safety practices to be used when setting up a work area, selection of personal protective equipment, and utilizing tools at the work site.
• Identify hazards and state precaution taken when using electric powered tools, pneumatic powered tools, and fuel-powered tools.
• Identify hazards and state precaution taken when using hand tools, portable power tools, and stationary power tools

via tees.tamu.edu

What do you do for safety training for your students in the class or on the robotics team.? Here is a rescource of Powerpoints and handouts on safety.

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Learn SolidWorks

via solidworks.com

Do you need to learn SolidWorks? He is a start with 9 video lessons to learn from.

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Anyone Teaching Robotics? Please respond with helpful advice and suggestions.

Anyone Teaching Robotics?

I've been searching for a curriculum and some ideas for teaching robotics.  Im looking to build a course that is half a year of robotics and half a year astronomy.

I haven't found very much so far.  Some stuff at Carnegie Mellon and constant links to Lego products, but not much else.  Im looking to make this an elective the following year and I need to start figuring out how Im going to make this happen.

Some of you must either teach this course or have someone in your school who teaches this course.

I need some help please.

Please note my new school email address is nmorgan@eanesisd.net. 

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Need team building ideas for your robotics team? Great Resource for any team or group.

Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit!
This site is designed for a wide audience including: team leaders, trainers, teachers, managers, camp directors, counselors, and youth groups.

Begin by browsing for games and activities below or read more about the mission, goals, and history on the About Teampedia page.

 

I used several activities today in my robotics classes from Teampedia today.   It was a fun Friday in class today.

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The STOMP Network - What is STOMP? STEM Mentoring for younger students.

What is STOMP?

 

Overview

STOMP stands for the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program. The STOMP model is designed to create partnerships between STEM "experts" and K-12 classrooms to assist K-12 teachers in developing and implementing interactive STEM lessons. Through this model, "experts" in the form of university students, high school students, and industry employees collaborate with K-12 educators to develop curriculum and resources aiding the long-term sustainability of STEM education. K-12 teaches benefit from the partnership by gaining knowledge of STEM concepts, subsequently becoming more comfortable with engineering and implementing engineering-based activities in their classrooms. STOMP participants, or fellows, also benefit in that they are awarded an opportunity to work with their local community gaining communication, teaching, and leadership skills.

 

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History

via stompnetwork.org

High school students working with elementary and middle school students as mentors in STEM... sounds like a winning combination.

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NOVA | The Great Robot Race | PBS

via pbs.org

TV Program Description
Original PBS Broadcast Date: March 28, 2006

The Great Robot Race homepage

Join NOVA for an exclusive backstage pass to the DARPA Grand Challenge—a raucous race for robotic, driverless vehicles sponsored by the Pentagon, which awards a $2 million purse to the winning team. Armed with artificial intelligence, laser-guided vision, GPS navigation, and 3-D mapping systems, the contenders are some of the world's most advanced robots. Yet even their formidable technology and mechanical prowess may not be enough to overcome the grueling 130-mile course through Nevada's desert terrain. From concept to construction to the final competition, "The Great Robot Race" delivers the absorbing inside story of clever engineers and their unyielding drive to create a champion, capturing the only aerial footage that exists of the Grand Challenge.

It would seem that the essentials to road racing are clear—a fast car and talented driver, right? Wrong. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turns this assumption on its head with its Grand Challenge, a contest solely for autonomous vehicles that go relatively slowly. Following its success with unmanned aircraft, DARPA is pushing for the same on-ground advantage to keep soldiers out of harm's way. Private Jessica Lynch's ambush in Iraq might well have been avoided if the U.S. Army could have had a robotic supply truck to carry out missions in dangerous zones.

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