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Team Status 2015

US Army PEO STRI High School Engineering Internship

  • Preparing for the Internship:

    We are starting the coordination for the 2015 Summer Internship (June - Aug). We will have 6 planned engineering sessions. The focus is on STEM Competency. UCF-IST will be facilitating the lab space for our internship.
  • We will be meeting at Partnership III building in room 233.

  • Every Friday Mornings :

    Starting June 12 - Ending Aug 7

    9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

  • Fri 12 June
    Fri 19 June
    Fri 26 June
    Week off for 4th July
    Fri 10 July
    Fri 17 July
    Fri 24 July - Rocketry
    Fri 31 July - SeaPerch Test at YMCA
    Fri  7 Aug
    We will have both new incoming students and some returning students this summer. Our ultimate goal with the students is to develop an underwater robot that is cost efficient.
  • "Project Based Learning and Robotics Competitions "
  • We have a lot of lessons learned from last year, that we will develop upon. This summer we plan on expanding our internship curriculum to add further detail work in microcontrollers and robotics.

     

  • Fri June 12 2015 : Internship orientation

    The engineering student all did an awesome job!

    This summer we have 28 students that signed up for our internship.

    We had 26 students attend the first engineering session at the UCF-IST facility on June 12.

    The students in attendance were divided into 5 teams.

     

  • Engineering Design Process

  • Mentoring Presentation -Brain

  • Following introductions, we conducted our orientation.  The students were provided an overview of the internship and the expectations. 

  • We then took part in the Tower of Power activity that focused on learning the Engineering Design Process.  

  • Agenda for the 2nd Engineering Session:

    The student will take the Multi-tasking test

    A Safety Brief will be given to the students

    Each team will get a SeaPerch Kit

    Instructions and practice Soldering

  • Other Engineering Opportunity:

Robo-Knights  - Robotics Competition Team

Underwater - retrieve the R/C Airboat

 

 

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  • Fri 19 June 2015 : SeaPerch and Soldering
  • After a quick re-cap of last weeks agenda.
    The student took the Multi-tasking test.
  • The Multi-tasking test results proved that none of us can Multi-task and must focus on our single task and do it well.

 

 

 

  • Review  the Internship notes - How it Works
  • (it's on the web site in the curriculum section)

 

  • Other Engineering Opportunity:

    Robo-Knights – Robotics Competition Team
    The students have a great opportunity to participate in a FIRST FTC Robotics team the fall season.    It is free to join the team and it will be a great learning opportunity in a winning team environment.

    Underwater - retrieve the R/C Airboat
    The students will have an opportunity to participate in a practical application with their SeaPerch later in the summer.  They can use the SeaPerch to rescue a R/C Airboat that sank in a retention pond.

  • Agenda for the 3nd Engineering Session:

    A Safety Brief will be given to the students

    Each team will present their SeaPerch Design Concept

  • Get more information on the SeaPerch Obstacle Course from this link:

  • http://www.seaperch.org/challenge_rules

  • Students are tasked to get familiar with the Arduino IDE.

  • Get more information on the Arduino from this link:
  • https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

  • Please bring in your laptops and Arduino Uno (if you have them).

  • The Arduino IDE must be ready to go first thing Friday !
    The teams will be getting their Arduino Uno cards during the next engineering session.

 

 

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  • The student teams shared their Sea Perch Design Concepts.  

  • A Safety Brief was given to the students.

       
       

  • Get more information on the SeaPerch Obstacle Course from this link:

  • http://www.seaperch.org/challenge_rules

  • Students are tasked to get familiar with the Arduino IDE.

  • Get more information on the Arduino from this link:
  • https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

  • Please bring in your laptops and Arduino Uno (if you have them). Please watch the first 5 YouTube tutorial series for Arduino by Jeremy Blum.

  • The Arduino IDE must be ready to go first next Friday !
    Friday 3 July is off.

 

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  • Fri 10 July 2015 : Arduino Programming
  • The engineering student all did an awesome job programming the Arduino Microcontroller !
  • During the engineering session we went over the content presented as part of YouTube tutorial series for Arduino by Jeremy Blum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCxzA9_kg6s.
  • We covered the implementation of servos and motor that were part of the first 5 of the YouTube tutorial series.
  • We conducted tasks that showed the application of both autonomous and operator control of the servos and motors by the Arduino.
  • Each team shared the status of their SeaPerch during the engineering session.

 

 

 

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  • Fri 17 July 2015 : SeaPearch Building
  • The engineering student all did an awesome job completing thier SeaPerch ROV !

 

 

 

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  • Fri 24 July 2015 : Rocketry and Aviation
  • Mr Walter Legan conducted a great overview of Rocketry and Aviation.
  • He also covered the finance expectations for education and career development.

  • Following the presentation the internship teams construct the model rockets.

 

 

  • We had contacted the R.O.C.K. section about holding a launch for our internship and we successfully launched Twenty Estes Alpha Rocket flights using A8-3 engines.
    Bracha and Roger Smith, Sandy and Dave Ribakoff and Chris Michielssen coordinated and managed the rocket launch events. They were very kind, provided awesome guidance and instructions and coordinated the event in excellence.

 

 

 

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  • Fri 31 July 2015 : SeaPerch Test at YMCA
  • The teams checked their SeaPerch designs for final testing in class and at 10:00 we went over to the YMCA for the test event.
  • All the teams did very well.
  • Team Dragons and Team Volt 101 tied for first place with a 42 sec time.

 

 

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