tiki techs binder 2011

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Tiki Technologies

Team 3880

Kulia I Ka NuuWe strive for the summit!


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About Our Team:

Aloha! We are Tiki Technologies from the Big Island ofHawaii. As a second year team we have inspired ourstudents, mentors, and community to have a developedappreciation for robotics and STEM education. Through ourtwo years we have participated in VEX, ROV, Botball, andFIRST. We also reach out to over 8 schools on our school k-

12 level for STEM education. We have started 4 teams justthis year for competitions such as VEX and FLL. Our teammotto is Kulia I Ka Nuu which is Hawaiian for We strivefor the summit! We hope to continue to strive for thesummit and share our aloha spirit!


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Team Essays:Below is a team essay specific to our team and the participation in

competitions such as FIRST and promoting STEM education.

In the 2012 FIRST Robotics competition (FRC) "Rebound Rumble," FIRST Team 3880, theKealakehe Tiki Techs, developed rich industrial educational partnerships, platforms forcreative technical skills enhancement, & opportunities to deeply enrich our communities'awareness of STEM education. In our second year participating in FRC, we diversified our

programmatic goals to establish broader and deeper learning outcomes for studentsparticipating in robotics. Our motto, kulia i ka nu'u, "we strive for the summit," implicatescontinual process reflection and perseverance to be better than no one besides ourselves. TheFIRST Chariman's Award piqued our interest as an opportunity to reflect on and showcasethe heart and soul of the Tiki Techs.

Tiki Technologies began in 2010, on the Big Island. Since our first meeting, each studentand mentor commits to our Core Values:

1) Develop rigorous STEM aptitudes for all students.

2) Leverage the diversity of our team to create a premier program that will benefit futuregenerations of students.

3) Maximize the potential of robotics to serve as a positive throttle for a sustainablecommunity.

4) Create life-long learners passionate about solving difficult problems and findinginnovative solutions.

5) Avail a safe place for students to explore their dreams and abilities while developingdiscipline, empathy, communication skills, & responsible risk taking.

As rookies during 2011's Logo Motion, we entered FRC as an anxious, inexperience group.We overcame many obstacles. Our team entered our rookie year with no engineeringmentors, a $1500 budget, & the back counter of a science lab as our work room. In week

four, our team discovered a sizing issue that forced us to rip off 60lbs of material and startfresh, but with no budget or stock. We had our laptop with all of our program files stolen theweek before competition. In the pressures of a rookie year, we misunderstood a motor rulerequiring us to fully remake two of our three subsystems on the first day of competition.Through hard work and many late nights, we persevered; ensuring every hole, cut, weld,wire, and code line was done by a student and we overcame proving ourselves as thestrongest defensive robot in competition. As part of the winning alliance, we secured our

place at FIRST Championship. For our unique and efficiently designed robot, our team alsoreceived the General Motors Industrial Design Award.


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The FIRST Hawaii Regional exposed our team to a higher expectations, ingenuity, and commitment:these galvanized our team launching a high-soaring sophomore expansion.

Our performance in the FIRST Championship placed us in the top half of rookie championship teamsleaving a deep drive for excellence in our delegation. The championship revealed to us the inherentchallenges and level of competition expected out of an Einstein level program. Rather than

overwhelming our team, we took the opportunity to learn from more experienced teams throughcooperation and observation. This experience provided us a unique opportunity to not only create arobot, but forge a mutually constituted team unified by two words "we goin".

This was not our first victory of our rookie season. Our team's first competition was in 2010 MATEROV where we placed 2nd & had one of the top 10 ranked technical reports in the world. In the fallof 2010, we captained the fifth seeded alliance at the Hawaii VEX Championship winning as thelowest seed ever in the state. This allowed us to attend the VEX Championships in Disney World.Once again, we found ourselves outmatched due to inexperience as a new team. In the spring of2011, we narrowly missed winning the BIR ROV Competition which would have made us the onlyteam in the world to make it to the VEX, FRC, and MATE World Championships. However, the

exposure we gained from the FIRST Championships and the VEX Championships clearlytransformed the trajectory of our team and supported district-wide changes in STEM-educationapproaches. Our dedication to education and outreach piqued the interest of Hawaii GovernorAbercrombie who presented us with a proclamation declaring July 4, 2011 as "Kealekehe RoboticsTeam Day."

After thorough reflection as a team on our championship experiences, we transitioned from aseasonal team into a year-long program meeting each week of the summer. We developed 10SMART goals with three metrics each for the 2011/12 season ranging from diversifying our donorpool to supporting the community that supports us. We also established a new team applicationprocess interviewing and reviewing applications from over 90 students. Through this, we alsoselected high level, committed student leaders who wrote their own job contracts. With this structuralmake-over, we ended 2011 with more international qualifying wins priming ourselves for FRC in2012.

With our Core Values, Motto, Mantra, and Team SMART Goals, we embolden the purpose of theFIRST core values while personalizing their operationalization to our needs and diversity. Currently,Tiki Technologies consists of 20 student project leaders focused on acquiring knowledge of welding,programming, design, fabrication, safety, technical writing, community outreach, and leadership. Toprepare local leaders for 21st century careers, we challenge students to create efficient, innovativesolutions to difficult engineering & social problems. We stand out among other highly successfulprograms because of our emphasis on sustainability, commitment to diversity, and legacy of studentopportunity. Fulfilling our stewardship and sustainability goals, we developed the RoboticsExpansion Initiative which started four primary school robotics teams and produce over 40community outreach events this year. Our ethnic diversity (14 heritages), gender equality (13females, including five project captains), economic diversity (majority of team classified aseconomically disadvantaged), and learning diversity (several valued teammates serviced throughspecial education) enable us to consistently achieve creative solutions to complex challenges.Securing over $1,500,000 in private scholarships, our graduating seniors translated team success intopersonal opportunity to attend prestigious universities such as NYU Cornell, & Rice maintaining theprogram's 100% college rate.


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Our team also focuses on creating a supportive, structured environment for innovators. We do this byteaching Stanford Design School (DT) techniques practice which has made us the signature programfor DT in Hawaii. Our students serve as DT experts for the islands often times teaching teachers andindustry leaders the DT process used by Apple, Google, Facebook, and other disruptive technologypioneers. At Tiki Technologies, thinking outside of the box is the norm because the radicalcollaboration of a diverse and passionate team always beats the efforts of the lone genius. This

process creates a true synergy with our diversity to allow us to find the unique solutions to theproblems posed by the robotics and other engineering competitions. For instance, we utilized theprocess to design a frame small enough to drive beside other robots on the bridge giving us a bigadvantage for the end game.

Our unique partnership with Stanford also allowed us to share our Divergent Thinking games withpeople from all around the world. Coming from pre-show routines for improv comedians, we honeour mental dexterity by playing and inventing mental responsiveness and quoing tasks. These gamesserve as the starting point for much of our weekly work with k-8 students and teachers. We haverecently expanded this series into a curricular resource for the state.

A major value we promote within our team and community is safety. Many teams discuss thepromotion of Safety, but we wanted to find a way to take it to the next level. This year all of ourstudents went through the US Department of Labor OSHA General Industry Training successfullyearning their entry industry safety certification. Our Underwater ROV team also went through Scubacertification training. During one of our outreach brainstorming sessions, we decided to get industrialsafety into the ethos of elementary students. This led to our Keiki Safety Guide which introduces the20 most common tools of the shop and the five major PPE with clear descriptions and interactivegraphics. We've distributed several hundred of these to students and have recently contracted apublishing and binding of the booklet for mass production.

Building on these points, we developed a unique, culturally-oriented method of ensuring generationalchange through FRC: The Kealakehe Robotics Ahupua'a of Giving. The Ahupua'a, a traditionalHawaiian land division, goes from mountain to sea. Through collaboration & stewardship, it suppliesall resources needed to develop & sustain a healthy community. Our Ahupua'a addresses our programneeds & celebrates our generous partners. We recognize each donor with personalized gifts basedupon 10 roles of Hawaiian culture. We have over 300 participants in this program since Novemberallowing us to meet our ambitious annual $250,000 fundraising campaign.

FIRST Team 3880 will change the world. Our 2025 Plan includes servicing 25% of all students inour complex, a multimillion dollar education and research facility. In our second year, we are primedto advance to a truly world-class educational opportunity and model within Hawaii.

Kulia I Ka NuuWe strive for the summit!


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On our team, we represent over 14 different ethnicbackgrounds, with team members speaking up to two differentlanguages including Japanese and Spanish. We have 16 girlsand 14 boys on our entire team with four of seven leadership

roles filled by ladies. Each person has their own uniquecapabilities. Depending on their skills and interests; we splitthem into our four subgroups; Programming, Building, Media,and Documentation.

About us:

Diversity of the team


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Engineering

3880BHistory:

Tiki Techs 3880B robot qualifiedat the Maui FairVEX Regional.As the secondseat team, wewere alliancecaptains and wonthe competition.

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With this robot wehave used designthinking, Autocaddesign, and moreengineering

strategies.


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Engineering

Designing 3880B

One of the major techniques weve used for designing3880B is Stanfords Design Thinking. This process wasbrought to us by Stanford Universitys Design School andwe are the trial program in the State of Hawaii for DesignThinking. We really value this program and initiativebecause it has helped us create unique designs. Its also amajor institutionalized process used by companies likeGoogle and Apple on a daily basis. We believe that bringingthis technique to STEM education will play a major factor inhow competitive we are as a team and program.


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Engineering

Designing 3880BWhen we first started designing 3880 we thought about:

- picking up pieces- defensive tactics (strength)- descoring top pieces

Through the Stanford process, you follow the steps:

Empathizing with a user or situation

Defining a problem

Ideating for solutions

Prototyping out of simple materials

Testing the prototype to see if its reasonable

For Team 3880 this process is effective and fun! The best part

about this part of the engineering process is that we can includestudents from all interests. In Design Thinking you want diversityof different people that are good at different things. This is greatbecause then we can get our graphics team, programming team,media team, documentation tea, and driving team in with theprocess!


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Engineering

Using Auto Cad

Auto Cad is a 3D program that allows our team to have a visualrepresentation of our robot. It also saves us many hours of timeand energy because it shows some future problems that we mightencounter while building it. It helps us find ways around it or ifthe idea would even work at all.


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Eco-TikiWhat is the Eco Tiki approach?

The Eco-Tiki is an environmentally friendly program designed toprovide easy and convenient use for all groups. Under thisprogram, we have made an electronic binder, easy to wash Jerseys,electronic scouting system, and a light bulb exchange program. Theelectronic scouting system and binder allow us to save multiplesheets of paper while the Jerseys can be worn many times withouthaving to wash them. This saves water, energy and trees for the

environment. Our Light bulb Exchange Program is a system wherewe give CFL lights for incandescent bulbs. This helps ourcommunity save energy and valuable barrels of oil.

We are really excited about this approach because not onlywill it help us, but it will also help our community and the

environment!


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Eco-TikiTeam Jersey

As a part of the eco-Tiki initiative, we have worked hard to create

sustainability. One of the best ways that weve done this is throughour Tiki Technology teamjerseys. They are greattools for competitionbecause we can wear themmore then once withouthaving to worry aboutwashing them and can save

that energy and invest itinto our robot! Who knewthat even a robotics teamcould save energy?


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Eco-TikiLight Bulb Exchange

The Light Bulb Exchange is a program controlled by Blue Planet;a foundation constantly trying to better the island by reducing oilusage. The basic concept of this program is to give CFL Light

Bulbs in exchange for old or new Incandescent lights. Overall,Blue Planet has displaced 190,000 barrels of oil over the lifetimeof the 300,000 Light Blubs they exchanged. We are helping raisethis number to new heights with our eco-Tiki tactics. We have setthe challenge to exchange 1,000 light bulbs by the end of theschool year.


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Safety Tiki

OSHA Safety Training

Safety is a huge priority for our team. So this year we decided toOSHA certify all our team members. Each person on our team uses

OSHA inside class and out. The students of our team have classesthat involve dangerous or sensitive tools. Our builders are inmetals or woodshop classes, which involve heavy-duty tools. Theyuse OSHA Safety in order to use the tools correctly and not damagethem. Our media team sometimes helps our builders finish therobots. Thus they use OSHA training to help complete the robots.

Tiki Techs#3880

Robots Dont Have Brains SO PLEASE use yours.


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Outreach Tiki

Tiki Calendar

For Tiki Tech we value getting in the community and getting theminvolved. One of the easiest ways weve found to get theminvolved is through our Tiki Calendar so that they can stay updated.The calendar features pictures with the governor of Hawaii,competitions, alumni, and the team!

Robotics is a year round sport at Kealakehe HS and with the help of

the calendar we can get the community, parents, and students allready for competitions and other events.


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Outreach Tiki

Evolta The Iron Man Robot

FRC Team 3880 had the chance to work with Roboticist

Tomotaka Takahashi, creator of the Evolta Challenge. Tiki

Technologies was able to join Mr. Takahashi and his team from

Japan in the Evolta Iron Man Challenge, held here in Kona.


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Outreach Tiki

Evolta The Iron Man RobotWhat is the Evolta Challenge?

The Evolta challenge is a yearly challenge that Tomotaka

Takahashi takes on, building robots that has the ability to run on

batteries created by Panasonic. This partnership between these two

groups began the Evolta challenge. During each challenge, the

robot built must complete a challenge, not only proving the power

of Panasonic batteries, but also bringing more publicity to Mr.

Takahashi. He has

also built robots that

have climbed the

Grand Canyon, to a

24-hour non-stop

drive around a

NASCAR raceway.

The 2011-2012 Evolta

Challenge was now a

Triathlon, one of the most difficult in the world, the Ironman.


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Outreach Tiki

Evolta The Iron Man RobotWhat is the Evolta Challenge?

On October 23, 2011, the 2011-2012 Evolta challenge commenced.

The Evolta Robot followed the three parts of the race, swimming,

bicycling, and running. For the triathlon, Mr. Takahashi built three

different Evolta robots, each modified for each leg of the race. The

Evolta robot also followed the exact routes of the race, including

the distance. The only difference between a regular Ironman

Athlete and the Evolta robot is the size comparison. The Evolta

robot is 10 times smaller than the regular human, so the length of

time is longer; the Evolta team took approximately seven days to

complete the triathlon.

Over the seven days, the Evolta robot swam, bicycled, and ran theentire Ironman route, facing challenges on the way. Evolta saw a

lot of support of our community members and many touring the

state. On the seventh day of the challenge, nearly every person on

the island was notified about the challenge and giving support


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Outreach Tiki

Evolta The Iron Man Robotto the end of the competition.

On the last day of the triathlon, hundreds watched to see the robot

make its way to the finish line. People were honking and yelling

their supports for evolta, cheering the small bot towards the end.

Many people crowded the finish line chanting Evolta! until

arriving to the finish. Once the bot completed the strenuous

challenge, champagne was shot through the air, celebrating another

evolta challenge completed.


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Outreach Tiki

Evolta The Iron Man RobotWhat is the goal of Evolta?

One goal is to complete competitions, not only to get more

publicity, but to prove how innovated people are. Mr. Takahashi

wants to show each individual what he does, and that they can too

if they strive for it and to never quit. Mr. Takahashi wants to spread

the word of robotics and for the future generation to see what they

can do in their

future. Mr.

Takahashi loves

seeing our future

generations creative

minds at work,

Evolta is made notfor competition, but

as an inspiration for

robotics.


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Safety Tiki

Outreach Safety Booklet

One of our major outreach projects for this year was the safetybooklet. This book is great for people of all ages as it uses unique

Tiki Tech copyright graphics to share safety for different tools usedin the shop, safety materials such as safety glasses, and helpful usesfor tools.

We have shared this booklet at events like HI-RES (Hawaii IslandRobotics Exploration and Showcase), which reached over 400people in the community as well as other competitions and events.

Tiki Techs#3880

Robots Dont Have Brains SO PLEASE use yours.

TikiTechs#3880

Robots DontHaveBrains SOPLEASE useyours.


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Safety Tiki

OSHA Safety Training ExplainedTeam 3880 takes Better safe than sorry seriously. OSHA training

classes enables Tiki Technologies to learn the steps of being safe

when working around any dangerous

situations or

tools.

What is OSHA?

In 1970, Richard Nixon instituted the

Occupational Safety and Health Act,

creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA). Since the beginning of OSHA, the mortality rate at workhas diminished. The goal of OSHA is having safe working

environments and healthy workers come to work and to go home

each and every day. This is what FRC team 3880 wants to have as

well.

Better safethan sorry!


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Safety Tiki

OSHA Safety Training ExplainedWhy is OSHA Safety Training important?

With the founding of OSHA, death and injury tolls drastically

fell over the past 32 years. Statistics show in 1970 approximately

14,000 employees were killed in work related accidents, injuries

and illnesses from work, by 2009, numbers dropped to 4.340.

Injuries fell with the help of OSHA, from 11 per 100 workers in

1972 to 3.6 per 100 workers three years ago. OSHA Training is

intended to train employees (Students) and the Employers

(Mentors) to be safe in any working environment and to identify

hazardous areas, keeping everyone protected and unharmed.

How does FRC team 3880 Utilizes OSHA?

FRC Team 3880 students and mentors would like to have a

safe working environment and a better understanding of the tools

we use in every robotics session. From the beginning of our school

year, our students have started OSHA training classes to utilize

safety practices during work time and competition.


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Safety Tiki

OSHA Safety Training ExplainedOSHA wants citizens to be safe, where ever they may be, so

does FRC Team 3880. We intend to make sure everyone on our

team knows what is and what is not safe around them. Every

session of OSHA training is taken seriously, no matter what

division that student may be placed within. During any tournament

that Tiki Technologies host, we make sure to create signs notifying

people to be safe, especially the students.

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