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Goal

In the VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. This year’s goals are to:
1. Attain a higher score than the opposing Alliance by Scoring Discs in Goals, Owning Rollers, and Covering field tiles at the end of the Match.
2. Compete in the skills competition, in which teams will compete in sixty-second-long matches in an effort to score as many points as possible. This is what ranks teams in the world standings.
3. Program the robot using the VEXcode IDE to autonomously score disks and own rollers described in 1 without a driver.
4. Keep a detailed engineering notebook that contained both design ideas as well as implemented designs with sketches, design process decisions, updates on each practice, and code design.
5. Collaborate with other schools. Teams are randomly paired with other teams to work together to accomplish these goals.
Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, national, and global levels.  This grant will specifically pay for entrance fees, robot parts, and expenses associated with VEX competitions.
 

What will be done with my students

Steinbrenner High School's JROTC School Improvement Plan Goals are:
1) Positively impact school culture by providing all students access to academic, social, and emotional support through a diverse system of schoolwide mentoring and student-initiated programs.
2) Student achievement will increase when students have access to rigorous tasks and assignments aligned with grade-level literacy and content area standards in every classroom.

To provide students with these rigorous opportunities, we have built 2 robotics team. Our yearly state test scores show challenges in achieving gains in our upper quartile of students. A robotics team addresses this as well as provides students with experiences in engineering and programming practices. Besides the actual build, teams are judged on their design and record-keeping of the process. At competitions, students collaborate with other teams during the competition rounds. This grant will specifically pay for entrance fees and expenses associated with VEX competitions.
JROTC will be conducting and after school robotics program to teach robotics to incoming freshman that want to learn robotics. Eventual goal is to have an actual class that will provide industry certifications.
In addition to competitions in and around Florida, our program works to expand STEM education in the community, and we work to provide examples of what students can do with simple electronics and computer programming.
 

Benefits to my students

An expansion of resources for the program will enable students to create more competitive robots, which will result in advancement in competition. Students will experience real-world STEM environments and career opportunities. As the program expands, the participation from the student body is expected to increase.
This is the third year participating in this robot competition league. Goals will be considered accomplished when students:
1. Use CAD programs such as Fusion 360, Inventor, or Solidworks to design and build the robot.
2. Successfully program the robot to run autonomously, even if it does not score the winning point for the round.
3. Improve our ranking in the competing teams as compared in local, state, and national scopes.
4. Be more competitive than previous years by winning more matches and participating in both the Regional and State Competitions, and possibly qualifying for the Vex World Championship where students face and collaborate with other teams from across the globe.
 

Budget Narrative

Monies granted will be used for team registration, entrance fees for each competition, travel, and robot parts. Most events are 1.5 to 2 hours away and go from 8:30 am to 5 pm so gas is needed for transportation and students need to be fed during the day. Some specific parts that students would like to acquire are pneumatic systems and vison tracking systems will aid in maintaining the competitiveness of robots.  

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