Bots & "Beverages" at Silicon Valley Career Technical Education (SVCTE)

Image by Midjourney, prompt 'scary robot pumpkins'
It's "Bots and 'Beverages'" because it's at a school... so just school appropriate beverages will be served. But we will have good snacks.

• Bring your robot demo and your deck!
• We'll have an open mic for robotics demos or introductions.
• Are you hiring? Let everyone know!
• Want to present Your Company Technology or Demo Something Cool. Let me know, and I can provide you with a 15-20 min time slot

Big thanks to our hosts at Silicon Valley CTE
Come see STEAM Clown's (Jim Burnham's) SVCTE Mechatronics Engineering Class. This Bots and Beverages will be at Silicon Valley Career Technical Education High School.
Come hear a short presentation (10 min) by Mechatronics Engineering instructor Jim Burnham, learn how high school students are learning about Robotics. Get a short tour of the Mechatronics Engineering classroom, and see some Student projects. See how you can get involved with shaping the future of education.
760 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose 95136
Parking and Room instructions
Special Request:
If you have

• Android Phones - We are going to do a project using wifi-direct and android email server with android's K9 app to run DDD https://sjsu-cs-systems-group.github.io/discdd.net/ and we need factory reset Android phones capable of running Android 13 or better.
• Surplus Robot Equipment, Servos, Motors, Motor Controllers, and other Robot parts, please consider bringing them and Donating them.
• Printers, yes, regular old paper printers. Want to "recycle" them into my class? Bring them. Every year, I need about 60 printers at the start of the year. I'll save them for next year. We salvage parts from them
• Roomba or Neto type vacuums - we are going to build a fleet of hacked Roombas.
• Surplus Through Hole or Surface Mount components, we use them for projects, and practicing soldering.

Agenda:
We do announcements, introductions, demos and tech discussions. If you have a robot to demo, bring it.
After the Announcements and Introductions, we will have

• Short Introduction to Jim's Mechatronics Engineering Class
• Demo & Presentation from Farm-ng, a startup based in Watsonville, CA developing and building the Amiga, a small robotics/tractor platform to help farmers (and those building for farmers) collect data and operate their land better. Come see a demo.
• Student demos and Tour of his Mechatronics Engineering class
• AND we get to go through a charity Haunted House built by and staffed by students. (Donations for Robot Club Appreciated)

Then we will have the standard Networking and informal chats.
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Contact the SVCTE Host [jburnham@metroed.net](mailto:jburnham@metroed.net)
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