Want to get a robot named after you? You may want to consider volunteering as a mentor to a FIRST robotic team.
Eunice Kokor from FIRST Team 1671 explained the logic behind the name of the team’s fighting spirit, dubbed the Fish. “Each year, we decide to dedicate the robot to someone who has helped us tremendously,” she said. “Last year, we named [the robot] In the House, after our mentor Joshua Houser, our PTC mentor who helped us with the CAD software [PTC Creo Parametric]. This year, we have … Nick Fisher. He basically spent his time machining our parts so that we can go back the next day to put our robot together.”
The team acknowledged in its home page that Fisher, a veteran employee of Harris Manufacturing, “graciously offered his faculties to our team: he spent an entire weekend machining aluminum parts designed by our team before the Build Stop deadline.”
FIRST is the brainchild of Dean Kamen, an inventor, entrepreneur, and advocate for science and technology. The blend of robotic science and teamwork required to compete in FIRST regional and national championships serve to “inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership,” as stated by the organization. Since its launch, the program has become a national phenomenon, growing into the robotic equivalent of the Super Bowl.
Continue reading Kenneth Wong’s article at DeskEng.com
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