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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">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. </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">This</font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> year
</span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">we successfully fielded an all girls' Victoria Team for the FIRST Robotics Challenge and the RoboCats were </font>received<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> the </font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px;">the
Judges’ Award at the inaugural 2015 Australian FIRST Robotics Regional Tournament in Sydney. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><span style="line-height: 20px;">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></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Times;">For further information see </span><a href="http://www.melbournerobocats.org/" style="font-family: Times;">http://www.melbournerobocats.org</a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">
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<font face="Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times">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>)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times;">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-family: Times;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQgZCvNKNE" style="font-family: Times;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQgZCvNKNE</a></div>
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<font face="Times">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.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<font face="Times">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
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<b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Dr Therese Keane</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senior Lecturer in Education</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Faculty of Health, Arts and Design</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Department of Education and Social Sciences</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Building: 14W</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Phone: (+613) 9214 8579 </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Twitter: #SwinEdTech</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Swinburne University, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">PO Box 218 Hawthorn, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Victoria 3122 Australia</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CRICOS Provider 00111D</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px;">
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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff-profiles/view.php?who=tkeane">Therese's Profile</a></span></p>
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