Presenting at the 2019 FIRST Tech Challenge Kickoff Workshop
I was asked by the Los Angeles FIRST Tech Challenge organization to give a workshop on engineering design to high school students at the annual kickoff for the new season of competitive high school robotics. I gave two sessions of a 45 minute presentation on how to create innovative components for their robots to an audience of a few dozen students in each session.
Figure 1: Students look on to my presentation as they learn about engineering design
These are the slides for the presentation I gave. The topic was how to design innovative systems, especially for the robots that the students will be building for their competition. I went over how to create a design specification given a design problem (an essential step for designing any system, innovative or not), defining what and innovation even is, identifying when it’s useful or not to innovate, and throughout I showed off useful tools to try to understand design.
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