The University of Victoria is hosting a series of workshops to help FIRST Tech Challenge teams learn the skills for designing, building and programming robots. Most of the workshops will be lead by FIRST alumni who are current UVic students.
The workshops will be held at the University of Victoria on Friday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:00pm. The room changes depending on the topic. Please register for the sessions so we can update you if there’s a last minute room change. Workshops will be either in the Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) building or the Engineering Lab Wing (ELW) building.
| Date | Topic |
| Sept 27 | Drive Systems |
| Oct. 4 | CAD assemblies |
| Oct. 11 | Thanksgiving weekend No Workshop |
| Oct. 18 | Programming with Vuforia |
| Oct. 25 | Lift Options |
| Nov. 1 | Engineering Design Process and Notebooks |
| Nov. 8 | CAD designing parts |
| Nov. 15 | Preparing for Competition – Inspection, wiring |
Choosing a Drive System will be held in the Engineering Computer Science (ECS) building room 660 September 27 from 4:30 to 6pm.
We also plan on live streaming each workshop on the FIRST Robotics BC YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqJ09AW-_NL0e1OKSSqVNA