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The beginning of every January an excitement begins to buzz and swirl as the announcement of this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition is finally announced. Thousands of teams have been waiting for this announcement since last MAY. Each year students, teachers and mentors prepare for 8 weeks of organized chaos to succeed as a team and
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In my last blog, Syracuse University Senior Design Project, I talked about the machine that my Senior Project group designed and built. The machine needed to pick up and sort different types of balls for two minutes on test day. Since the last post, the machine conducted a test run on a turf surface, and
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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition (EDU) 2016-2017 was just released and for those of you on Active Subscription, upgrade kits are on the way to your school. I have been working on the Education team at CADimensions for over 10 years now. Even though the new version is released around this time each year, our phones don’t
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When I am not at CADimensions interning, I am at Syracuse University as a full time student pursuing my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. For my senior design class, students were put into groups of five and given the objective to build a “sphere harvester.” The requirements for the machine are that it needs to be
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There are many different paths that people take on their way through higher education. I chose to attend my first two years at my local community college which was known for its engineering program. To be honest, this decision had more to do with cost than it did anything else at the time. Monroe Community College
