What is FTC?
FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, manufacture and compete with their robots, raise funds, design and market their team brand, and do community outreach to earn specific awards. Participants are also eligible to apply for $80M+ in college scholarships.
Why FTC?
We are offering FIRST Tech Challenge to our students in order to teach them valuable and practical life skills from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to java programming to teamwork.
What skills will my child learn?
Soft Skills
Technical Skills
Creative Thinking
Exercising Leadership
Integrity / Honesty
Work with Diversity
Self-management
Allocates Resources
Negotiates
Apply Technology to a Task
Research and Testing
Self-management
Decision Making
Interpret Information
Maintain Technology
Teaching Others
Responsibility
Serving Clients
Monitoring and Correcting Performance
Developing a sense of Humor
Kinematics
Precision Measurement
Energy and Power
Designing for Manufacturing
Using Many Processes To Design And Make Parts
System Integration
3D Printing
Programing
Teamwork
Engineering Drawing
Industry standard 3D Solid Modeling
Computer Animation
Algebraic Manipulations
Data Analysis
Creative Technical Writing/Presentation
Organizational skills
Electronic Fundamentals
Specifics:
Lets face it, in order to do this we need some very expensive equipment that we don’t have yet. For us to cover the costs of the machinery we need your help, our current estimates of just this equipment is close to 7,000 dollars. Currently we are only providing this class at the Agoura Hills location.
Season Details:
Our sessions start in early June and ends in March.
Main sessions will be on Sundays (time tbd)
June 6 – early August: Designing parts and learning solidworks, and understanding game strategy.
Early August: Kick Off, new game and rules are released.
October – February: Qualifying tournaments and scrimmages.
March: State Championships
Please take the time to fill out THIS FORM if you are interested in joining the team.