FASTBot Training Program at Periyar Science and Technology Center in Chennai.
We, FASTBot team, have conducted a Hands-on training on FASTBot and its applications to 15 college students at Periyar Science and Technology Center in Chennai on 06-12-2013.
This training program was initiated by the Executive Director of the center, Dr. IyamPerumal, and invited the students for the training program. All the required Robotic Trainers, FASTBots, were sponsored by Frontline Electronics for the purpose. The participating students have come from nearby Arts, Science and Engineering colleges.
For two days, during the training, the students showed keen interest and get themselves engaged with the FASTBot and were seen working on many exercises using FASTBots.
At last, during feedback session, one PG engineering student expressed his total satisfaction on working with the proven robotic platform and acknowledged that he has learnt important aspects of working with robotics. He also described how FASTBot enabled him to identify various elements required to continue working with robotics further. He also explained his interest to keep working with FASTBot in the coming days. Many other students also expressed their satisfaction in learning basics of robotics in the short duration because of the convenience, right mixture of exercises covering all the salient features of the FASTBot.
In the end, both the Executive Director and M.Balaji, Technical Director of Frontline Electronics have announced their plan of conducting similar training programs in other branches of the Science Center in the coming weeks.
