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FIRST® Tech Challenge Professional Development
Sat, Sep 21
|Western Technical College
During FIRST Tech Challenge professional development, you'll learn how to engage students in grades 7-12 in the engineering design process and career-ready practices through team-driven robot building and programming.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2024, 10:30 AM CDT – Sep 22, 2024, 5:00 PM CDT
Western Technical College, 717 Vine St, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA
About the event
Dates & Times:
Saturday, September 21st from 10:30am - 6pm (60-minute working lunch & dinner)
Sunday, September 22nd from 9:00am - 4:00pm (Breakfast & 60-minute working lunch)
Course Description
The FIRST® Tech Challenge professional development course is designed for new and experienced teachers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors to enhance their overall FIRST® program knowledge, giving participants a strong understanding of how to implement all aspects of the program and how to achieve STEM learning objectives. In FIRST Tech Challenge, students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and program robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams with a spirit of friendly competition. Many call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.” Participants in this course will walk in the footsteps of the students as they engage in these hands-on experiences and practice engineering principles such as keeping an engineering notebook.
Course Requirements
Schedule
7 hours 30 minutesDay One Schedule
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7 hoursDay Two Schedule
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Tickets
2024 FIRST Wisconsin PD
The FIRST® Tech Challenge professional development course is designed for new and experienced teachers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors to enhance their overall program knowledge, giving participants a strong understanding of how to implement all aspects of the program and how to achieve STEM learning objectives.
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