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CMRA News (2017-2019 Archive)

Below is an archive of all of our events and activities from 2017-2019!

2019

Monday, December 16, 2019

RedZone Robotics hosts local students to see technologies that can save cities millions

The incredible team at RedZone Robotics hosted students from Phase 4 Learning Center to learn about what type of work that they do, and why they do it.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

US Naval Sea Cadets Corps pushes to teach recruits about emerging technologies

The U.S. Naval Sea Cadets Corps is on a mission to impact the lives of young Americans, known as cadets, through their STEM and Robotics educational programs. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy was invited to come train a dozen adult volunteers from across the nation at the MITAGS Naval Training Center.
Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Will Allen Foundation collaborates with Clairton High School to offer Robotics Technician course

The Will Allen Foundation and Clairton High School to begin offering the Electrical Foundations Micro-Certification course (one of the SMART Micro-Certification courses created by CMRA). The day kicked off with 25 students eager to learn from Will Allen about the goals of the program, and what the students will be doing as part of the course.
Thursday, October 03, 2019

SMART Program becomes official PA Pre-Apprenticeship Certification

The SMART Robotics Technician Pre-Apprenticeship program is a product of CMU’s Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy’s Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Robotics Training (SMART) project. Funded by ARM for its initial creation of the course materials, SMART targets the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSA) identified by technicians at Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing companies.
Monday, September 16, 2019

RE2 Robotics Hosts Tour for local students

Since 2001, RE2 Robotics has been committed to their primary mission: to develop innovative robotic technologies that save lives and improve quality of life. In August, RE2 hosted local students from several communities around Pittsburgh to learn about what their technicians do on a day-to-day basis, their skills, tools they use, and what kind of backgrounds they came from.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

VEX EDR V5 Workshop in Salamanca, NY

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy spent 2 days with teachers in Salamanca, NY to provide a crash course in VEX V5 robot building, programming, and competitions.
Thursday, August 29, 2019

NSF Funds Research on a New Genre of Co-Robotic Games

A new research collaboration will create games where students play alongside teammates they’ve programmed themselves.
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Brand New Arduino Robotics Training Course – Includes a FREE Robot!

The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy is excited to announce a brand-new curriculum for use with the VEX EDR V5 Robotics System!
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

VEX EDR V5 Curriculum Available on the CS-STEM Network!

The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy is excited to announce a brand-new curriculum for use with the VEX EDR V5 Robotics System!
Friday, August 16, 2019

LEGO EV3 Training in The Bronx

Throughout the month of July, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy was hosted in The Bronx, New York.
Friday, June 07, 2019

Phase 4's Best Buy Teen Tech Center kicks off Electrical Foundations training

Phase 4 Learning Center’s Best Buy Teen Tech Center kicked off their Electrical Foundations training on Monday, June 3rd. Several teens gathered at the East Liberty location to go through the Electrical Foundations Micro-Certification course to begin building their Digital Portfolios.
Monday, May 13, 2019

VEX EDR V5 Crash Course in West Virginia

This past week, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy spent a day at NASA’s Katherine Johnson IV&V Center, located in Fairmont, West Virginia.
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

SEEGRID hosts local students to learn about their autonomous pallet trucks

The SEEGRID site visit is a part of the SMART-Extended Reach (SMART-ER) project, which has students from underserved communities to go through a Micro-Certification course called Electrical Foundations.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Bossa Nova demonstrates shelf scanning robot to local Pittsburgh students

Bossa Nova Robotics, a robotics company that creates autonomous service robots for the global retail industry, hosted students from the Garfield Jubilee, Phase 4 Learning Center, and Auberle.
Friday, April 19, 2019

HEBI Robotics visits Garfield Jubilee, speaks of the birth of a new career: Robotics Technician

HEBI Robotics’ vision is to help industry create new jobs that will need technicians to read diagrams, follow guidelines on assembling a particular design, and perform the necessary tasks to get a robot up and running. Not to mention the maintenance that would be involved with the robots. There will be plenty of tasks needed to deploy these robots at a large scale. And a skilled workforce will need to be developed.
Monday, April 15, 2019

Browne Academy educators spent a week with a CMRA trainer learning to program and teach with the VEX EDR V5 system.

Browne Academy educators spent a full week with a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy trainer learning to program and teach with the VEX EDR V5 system. Next year, they intend to add new robotics courses for the middle school and have lower school teachers incorporate robotics into their classroom activities.
Monday, April 08, 2019

Loudoun County Continues to Expand Robotics Program

Loudoun County is continuing its growth of their Robotics Program. This year, they intend on implementing the brand new VEX V5 system into their offerings in multiple high schools in hopes of having a continuum within their schools. Last year, CMRA held a training session to prepare over a dozen middle school teachers. With the high school programs, students coming into the high school will have the chance to incorporate robotics into their engineering design projects.
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

The Bridge of Pittsburgh - ResCare - Begins technical foundations training

The Bridge of Pittsburgh - ResCare - began training using Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy’s SMART Micro-Certifications on Monday as part of the SMART-Extended Reach (SMART-ER) project. Participants of the program are going through the Electrical Foundations Micro-Certification course, which focuses on concepts like wiring, series and parallel circuits, voltage, current, troubleshooting with a multimeter, and other circuits concepts.
Friday, March 29, 2019

CMU's Merit Badge University wraps up the 2019 training sessions

CMU’s 2019 Merit Badge University wrapped up this past Saturday by finishing the Architecture and Robotics classes. CMRA registered over a dozen robotics merit badges to scouts that had enrolled in the two-day-long sessions
Monday, March 25, 2019

Students learn what it would take to be an autonomous car technician

“You’re on the edge of the beginning of a new industry”, says Autonomous Vehicles Service Manager, Joe Serbin, “In about five years, this industry is going to need tens of thousands, if not a hundred thousand technicians just to keep up.”
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

CMU's Merit Badge University gives scouts a chance to earn Merit Badges

Every year, CMU’s chapter of Alpha Phi Kappa, the single most represented co-educational intercollegiate service organization in the US, hosts an event called Merit Badge University at Carnegie Mellon University’s campus. During this event, over 50+ scouts are invited to take half-day or day-long classes that offer the coveted merit badges upon completion.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

SMART-ER Training kicks off at Garfield Jubilee

SMART - Extended Reach (SMART-ER), Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy's initiative that involves several Pittsburgh community organizations to teach students core technician skills kicked off on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at The Garfield Jubilee.

2018

Thursday, September 06, 2018

picoCTF - CMU Cyber Security Competition

A computer security game for middle and high school students.
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

CMRA Summer with Circuits and Electronics

Summer time is always a busy time for our group! Every year we host and train hundreds of teachers from all around the world. We are fortunate to meet these wonderful educators from around the world who share the same vision that we do - to motivate and excite students about CS and STEM!
Thursday, August 23, 2018

CS-STEM Network: Changes in appearance and premium options

We’ve been busy making CS-STEM Network even better. The start of the school year is here, classes are starting, lessons plans are taking into effect, and we here at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy are excited to show you all of the things we’ve been working on over the past few months with the CS-STEM Network.
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Planning for the school year? Try Circuits, Boulder Math game, or Programming!

Try out our new Circuits activity, teach proportional math using Boulder Math, or program robots! We’ll show you how to get started.
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Loudoun County make a big push for robotics in its public schools

Loudoun County envisions a regional VEX competition for the Northern Virginia area.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Using Robotics to Teach Computational Thinking Practices

How can you make connections between what your students already know and what you want them to learn?
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

2018 Robotics Academy Summer Training starts in June!

Summer training starts in about a month! Register for on-site and online training today!

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