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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A great opportunity for female Technology students</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following information about RoboCats team openings for the FIRST Robotocs Challenge has been sent through from Dr Therese Keane (Swinburne University). This is a great opportunity for female students with an interest in Engineering
- involvement is hugely beneficial for students, the event is inspiring and they will have contact with great mentors. Contact Therese for further information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jill Livett<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We’re about to accelerate our recruitment campaign in preparation for the 2016 build season and are looking for secondary school girls who would like to be part of the RoboCats
Team. This year we successfully fielded an all girls' Victoria Team for the FIRST Robotics Challenge and the RoboCats were </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">received</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> the <span style="background:white">the
Judges’ Award at the inaugural 2015 Australian FIRST Robotics Regional Tournament in Sydney. </span><span style="background:#FFFEFE">We would like to follow up our success, and encourage more girls to be in involved with this Team. If you know of any female students
in your classes or school that you think may be interested, could you please pass this information on?</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">For further information see
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.melbournerobocats.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif">http://www.melbournerobocats.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;background:white">Background</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">The FRC is a varsity sport for the mind, combining a unique sporting challenge with the rigours of science and technology. Teams have limited time (i.e. six weeks) and money to build
a 40-50 kg robot using industry hardware and software to compete in the challenge. The emphasis is on fun and challenging oneself; it’s not about awards. The benefits to students have been profound, with students previously not contemplating engineering now
including it as their top choices. It is not only for students considering engineering. In the past students from Arts and Business Management has helped out, as each team functions as a miniature business unit. Furthermore, skills such as problem solving,
communication and team work are readily portable to any discipline, not just engineering. So the students do learn many valuable skills, irrespective of their eventual studies.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">The FRC is open to students between 14-18 years of age. ( <a href="http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc">http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc</a>)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">I have attached a YouTube video to provide a bit more of an insight into what the FRC is all about </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQgZCvNKNE"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQgZCvNKNE</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Melbourne RoboCats</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">We would like to field a team of about 10 girls and cap it at 20. This team will be mentored by some of the world's best engineers from the likes of BAE Systems, and will include
a number of their female engineers. Milorad Cerovac (King David School) is more than happy to chat to any interested school to explain the FRC in more detail, as well as the benefits.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">The team will be based in Armadale. The project will commence with a series of workshops (general "mechanical" construction, LabView programming, CAD modelling) which will run after
school in December (exact dates to be confirmed) and conducted by BAE Systems and Autodesk. Robot building will commence in January (during the school holidays) and run for no more than six weeks. The girls don't need to come to every build session, but we
would expect them to come to at least one per week. The plan is to run three build sessions per week. More information on the build sessions will be provided later. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Senior Lecturer in Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Faculty of Health, Arts and Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Phone: (+613) 9214 8579 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Twitter: #SwinEdTech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">PO Box 218 Hawthorn, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0433FF"><a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff-profiles/view.php?who=tkeane">Therese's Profile</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0433FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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