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manufacturing jobs of the future. LEGO bricks may be considered
toys, but FIRST uses them as vehi- cles to teach critical skills for manu- facturing in Industry 4.0. “All of our kids get exposed to
software, coding, programming, mechanical building (with LEGO bricks or metal parts), electrical con- trol, and communications systems. All of these technical skills are what go into automating manufacturing systems,” Bossi says.
Preparing for the Future of Manufacturing
Participants call the FIRST
Tech Challenge “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.” Students aged 12 to 18 design, build, program and oper- ate robots to play a floor game in an alliance format. With guidance from their adult coaches and mentors, stu- dents will develop STEM skills through designing and building the robot, and they will also learn how to innovate and function as part of a team. The 2019 challenge, ROVER RUCKUS, presented by Qualcomm, tasks students with creating robots to explore uncharted planets. The students will code the robots using Java-based programming. “Manufacturing jobs today
aren’t necessarily assembling the equipment, but managing the tech-
What is Inspection Coverage in Comparison with Test Coverage?
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number and the inspection algo- rithms applied to each of the ele- ments.
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nologies, is a state-of-the-art technol- ogy for creating and qualifying inspection programs. TestWay pre- dicts inspection coverage from CAD data and converts this data to be used by inspection machines, with significant savings in AOI library matching. It will also maintain the pin
number used on the machine reports to keep them consistent with the CAD data. As one key principle of Industry 4.0, TestWay closes the loop by reading the test coverage back from the machine. In this way, it ver- ifies that the test performance (phys- ical world) is aligned with the early simulation results (virtual world). ASTER Technologies also offers demonstrations of its TestWay soft- ware with any customer’s inspection machines. By combining inspection strategies with electrical test, the best defect detection can be achieved. Contact: ASTER Technologies,
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nology that does the manual repeti- tive labor. It’s programming and cod- ing the systems, and those jobs tend to pay more,” Bossi says. The FIRST Robotics Compet -
ition challenges students aged 14 to 18 to design and build robots to com- plete complex tasks in competition against other teams. The competition is designed for students at all skill levels, from learning basic principles to advanced technological skills. This year’s challenge, DESTI-
NATION: DEEP SPACE, presented by Boeing, gives students limited time and resources to build and pro- gram robots that they will put to the test in intense competitions that
reward the effectiveness of each robot, the power of team strategy and collaboration, as well as the determi- nation of students. “By putting fun and inspiration
and motivation on the front end, it creates fertile ground for kids to drive their own education, drive their own learning and pursue their own knowl- edge,” Bossi says. “Continued positive encouragement among the student’s mentors plays a vital role in their thinking and approach to life.” FIRST has three decades of
proven success. Longitudinal studies show that over 75 percent of FIRST alumni are in STEM fields as stu- dents or professionals. Beyond moti-
vating students to pursue STEM classes and careers, FIRST alumni also show over 90 percent gains in workforce skills, such as conflict res- olution, time management and prob- lem-solving. As Kamen put it in the organiza-
tion’s vision statement, FIRST is doing its part “to transform our cul- ture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becom- ing science and technology leaders.” Contact: NJMET, Inc., 1240
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