Today is mentor day celebrating volunteer mentors for FIRST Robotics teams. I can speak as having been mentoring a FIRST FRC Team 1540 Flaming Chickens of Catlin Gabel in Portland Oregon for the past few years on why YOU should also get involved. The high school students tell me I help, but I’m not sure they are getting the better end of this volunteering deal as I get so much from being continually inspired by these students I could never repay that debt. The team in the first two years used Autodesk Inventor to CAD and design their entire competition robot and the past 2018 season moved to Autodesk Fusion 360.
Team 1540 are such an amazing group of humans constantly surprising me at their depth of knowledge, innovation, collaboration, and sportsmanship. They also are concerned with more than just robots, they care about the world they will be entering and plan to make a difference but are not waiting and have have already had a big impact with many programs including their…