Bear metal robotics can seem like a complex thing when you go in with no knowledge, but it really isn’t as one of the first things that’s done is training, but what is that like? Well to explain all of it, it would take a while so let’s look at one sub-team, design, to see what they do for their training.

Namit Goyal, a lead designer has “worked on making the training curriculum and its part of my job to teach the basics of design to the new members,” and with that “we’ve just finished teaching new members the basics of Inventor, which is our 3D design software. Our current objective is to teach new members some basic concepts about robots and have them design some parts for it,” of course this is just the first step. After some later events they will learn much more.

Poggioli has said very similar things about training as he says that he “occasionally helps new members learn CAD and get comfortable with things,” but because he is not directly connected to training “as far as I know new members have learned basic CAD, returning members have focused on prototyping and master geometry” and that seems like a lot to do but in the end they are interested.

According to Goyal, “yes, we have some pretty committed members which I’m very excited about. Yes, there are a couple of people that aren’t as commited, but as a leader it would be unwise of me to name them,” which is fair.

Poggioli explained that, “I think that about half are invested the other aren’t that excited. I think that new members with prior experience like Simran are like learning quicker,” and that seems that’s the general conscience so what do you think?  

The people who helped to inform this paper were Namit Goyal, one of the design leads of the sub-team who joined two years ago and is currently enjoying his 3rd year, and Brady Poggioli, and even though he’s only a normal designer and pretty new he has shown great progress according to his peers.

But what is a big way that we can tell if our training has worked? Well that is known as the prototyping challenge, it is a small-ish build season where we go through the working of a normal build season but in a week and with a much smaller challenge, but it is a good test to see where they are all at. 

So, that’s a real quick story on Bear Metal robotics, explaining a good idea of what goes on when it comes to training. Now go and find more, there’s so much more to learn.