Its time for Team Blast - Week #5! As always, an archive of the FTC-Iowa Team Blasts is located at: http://ftc-iowa.blogspot.com/
You are receiving this message because you are a coach, or an assistant coach, for an FTC team in Iowa.
1. University of Iowa Scholarships for FIRST students - Please pass this to your students!
2. FTC-Iowa Upcoming Events
3. Resources for RobotC
4. "I have the best job in America"
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1. University of Iowa Scholarships for FIRST students - Please pass this to your students!
The College of Engineering at The University of Iowa is very excited to be able to offer scholarships for FIRST students. This is the first year for this scholarship and it is only available to FRC or FTC students! The scholarship includes three (3) $4,000 scholarships, each renewable for up to 4 years -- meaning a student can receive $16,000 from this scholarship! To apply, students must: be currently a senior in high school, or a student transferring into the Univ. of Iowa College of Engineering; have participated on an FTC or FRC team; apply and be admitted to The College of Engineering at The University of Iowa, and; indicate a major in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Applicants will need to fill out an online application, including answering four (4) 200 word "essay" questions, submit three (3) letters of recommendation, and a resume.
Deadline to apply: January 31, 2011. Award winners will be notified by March 1, 2011.
The details about this scholarship, and the online application form, can be found at: http://www.engineering.uiowa.
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2. FTC-Iowa Upcoming Events
As the last FTC-Iowa Team Blast indicated, we have a lot of great events planned throughout the FTC season. As a reminder, many of these events have strict capacity restrictions and set registration deadlines. Don't miss out on these opportunities - Register ASAP!
A list of upcoming events can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/
Pictures from the Skills Driving Event, will be posted next week. We are excited to see several of the teams on Saturday!
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3. Resources for RobotC
Tim Friez, one of the developers of RobotC, from the Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy, is offering free webinars and forum support for FTC teams this year. Tim will be hosting 6 webinars over the next 6 weeks to help FTC teams solve this year’s challenge. If you have a question and can’t get an answer, then post it at the forum and there is a good chance that Tim will answer the question during his webinar. To access the webinars go to: http://www.education.rec.ri.
To post questions and receive answers from experts in the community go to: http://www.robotc.net/forums/
If you’ve never programmed with RobotC and want to learn to program quickly go to: http://www.education.rec.ri.
*There are also resources for teams who are using LabView.*
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4. "I have the best job in America"
Recently, CNN Money published a series of articles about the different types of careers. One of the most interesting, is an article called "I have the best job in America", which can be found at: http://money.cnn.com/
A few highlights:
- 8 of the "favorite jobs" are related to an area in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) fields.
- 4 of the "favorite jobs" are engineering related including: Software Engineer #1, Environmental Engineer #5, Civil Engineer #6, and Biomedical Engineer #10.
- 10 Booming Jobs in America: http://money.cnn.com/
galleries/2010/pf/jobs/1010/ gallery.best_jobs_job_growth. moneymag/index.html - Best Jobs in America: http://money.cnn.com/
magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/ 2010/index.html - "Education and the Changing World" video, duration: 4:43 min: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uH8tW1lihtA
Just remember, "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist, using technologies that haven't been invented yet, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet." ("Education and the Changing World" video, :50) This is powerful stuff.
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Please don't hesitate to ask if you need help.
Rebecca Whitaker & FTC-Iowa team
P.S. Have you missed a FTC-Iowa Team Blast? (An archive of these messages are located on our blog: http://ftc-iowa.blogspot.com/)
