RAMTEC Robotics Camp Set For August in Richland County

Screen Shot 2015-06-29 at 9.19.50 AMAs RAMTEC continues to grow and expand to meet the needs of Ohio, additional Robotics Camps are being scheduled, including one in Richland County for 7th-12th graders at North Central State’s Kehoe Center in Shelby for youth in that area.

The robotics camps develop teams for upcoming regional, stateside and global competition.

To register for the robotics camp, go to Pioneer Career and Technology Center’s website or call 419-347-7744, extension 42207.

The cost of the camp is $30.

Students will receive a t-shirt, snacks, and lunches each day, and possibly a future high-paying career in manufacturing robotics.

A  news conference was held Thursday, June 25 in Richland County at the Area Agency on Aging to announce the new Vex Robotics camp for youth in this area, patterned after the Marion Tri-Rivers/RAMTEC successes. Richland County is modeling its RAMTEC based on successful efforts at the training site at Tri-Rivers Career Center in Marion, Ohio. The robotics program is coming to students at  Pioneer & Technology Center this fall. The classes will be at the North Central State College Shelby Kehoe campus.

“The new RAMTEC Ohio site in Shelby will be a great addition to enhance manufacturing education in North Central Ohio. Students in grades 7-12 and adult students will be able to get the latest industrial training in “state of the art” training facility,” said Ritch Ramey RAMTEC Ohio Coordinator. “The RAMTEC Vex Summer Camp will be  give students the opportunity to see industrial robots and build, program and compete with Vex Robotics equipment.”
 

 

 

 

 

Ohio Educators get 21st Century Manufacturing Skills Certifications

Ohio’s latest opportunity to help create the one and a half million workers that will be needed to close the Manufacturing Gap is being implemented this summer at the Marion area Tri-Rivers Career Center’s Robotics Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaboration known as (RAMTEC). Nine RAMTEC Ohio facilities are being built through a $14,955,000 Ohio Department of Education grant called the Straight A Fund. These site are all modern “state of the art” facilities that have the latest and most advanced manufacturing tools from our largest automation and robotic suppliers.More than 50 RAMTEC Ohio secondary and adult career technology instructors from these nine facilities are taking part in industrial credentialing courses this summer that enables them to award credentialing courses to our next generation of manufacturing technicians and engineers starting this fall. They are training in the same advanced training rooms that more than 150 manufacturing technicians have trained in robotics, hydraulics and Programmable Logic Controls since the Marion RAMTEC center opened for training in February of 2014. Other sites at Miami Valley, Great Oaks, Penta, Pioneer, Tolles, C-TEC, Portage Lakes and Cuyahoga Valley will all open this fall.

Each site will have credentialed training in FANUC and Yaskawa Motoman Robotics, Allen-Bradley and Mitsubishi PLCs, Parker Hydraulics and FANUC CNC. All RAMTEC sites will also receive 3D printers, Laser engravers, Vex Robotics labs, Arduino Digital Manufacturing Kits that will serve a dual role in their labs and in their new mobile lab based trailers that will enable them to take their training equipment to fairs, middle schools, trade shows and recruitment events.

At Tri-Rivers we were able to start our RAMTEC center in 2013. This made it possible for us to lead the way on establishing partnerships through our 10 year history of helping to host in the community Vex, BOEBOT, Lego, and the National Robotics Challenge. We have hosted area, state and national robotic events through our partnerships with Yaskawa Motoman Robotics,SME EF, Marion Technical College, TRECA (now META Solutions), Whirlpool Corporation, OSUM, Honda of America and RobotWorx. The next step was to create a facility that would allow our students to get real world industrial training that would help our area manufacturing get workers that could be “floor ready.”  RAMTEC is that solution.

Students from 256 school districts in Ohio can take these courses from the 7th to 12th grade at the nine new RAMTEC centers.  

This summer and next summer we will be continuously training teachers to create a team in Ohio that will give our students the opportunity to get real world experience as well as earn certifications and credentials that will be highly recognized on their resume when they graduate to the world of work. Students will be exposed to manufacturing career opportunities starting in the 7th grade with Vex Robotics through summer camps and events at the RAMTEC sites as well as trailer based exposure to the latest industrial equipment.

Many more developments from RAMTEC are in the works that will allow even more online and hands on access to industrial training for those looking for college credit in our training courses.

Ritch Ramey
RAMTEC Ohio Coordinator
rramey@tririvers.com
740-360-8156

Ritch Ramey
RAMTEC Ohio Coordinator
rramey@tririvers.com
740-360-8156

Tri-Rivers/RAMTEC 2015 Vex Robotics Camp Rocks

Summer RAMTEC Vex Robotics Camp Participants. The Future Workforce of Ohio!

Summer RAMTEC Vex Robotics Camp Participants. The Future Workforce of Ohio!

More than 120 7th -12th  grade students invaded the Tri-Rivers Career Center’s Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaboration (RAMTEC) for the RAMTEC Vex Robotics Camp June 8 -10. During the 3-day camp they learned designing, building, programming and explored various Vex, Motoman, FANUC, Arduino and Nao robotics platforms.

 

Participants received intensive instruction in Robot C programming language, the engineering design cycle, Vex Virtual World Simulation software as well as the 2016 Vex “Nothing But Net” Drive, Programming and Team competitions.

Vex Summer website_3144The camp was sponsored by grants from the Honda Foundation, Yaskawa Robotics, Consolidated Electric, SME EF Prime and Ohio’s Straight A Grants.  These companies and organizations are promoting camps as a way to promote manufacturing careers that will help us overcome the estimated 2.0 million American Manufacturing Skills Gap. These partners have really stepped up their support of manufacturing and robotics career exploration by supporting Vex camps.

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 RAMTEC Vex Robotics Camp 

More than 100 7th -12th  grade students will invade the Tri-Rivers Career Center’s Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaboration (RAMTEC) for our RAMTEC Vex Robotics Camp June 8 -10. The camp will be three days of designing, building, programming and student exploration of various Vex, Motoman, FANUC, Arduino and Nao robotics platforms.

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Attendees will be given intensive instruction in Robot C programming language, the engineering design cycle, Vex Virtual World Simulation software as well as the 2016 Vex “Nothing But Net” Drive, Programming and Team competitions. The camp is sponsored by grants from the Honda Foundation, Yaskawa Robotics, Consolidated Electric, SME EF Prime and Ohio’s Straight A Grants. Read more

$58,000 in Ohio State Marion Engineering Scholarships

OSUM webt_2943Row 1, left to right: Josh Strine, River Valley, $1,000; Jalyn Woodford, North Union, $3000; Semeon Wilson, North Union, $3,000. Row 2, left to right: Manuel Acuna, River Valley, $1,000; Cole Peterson, North Union, $1,000; Zak Kratowicz, North Union, $1,000; Joel Ackerman, North Union, $1,000; Joey Blair, North Union, $4,000. Row 3, left to right: Seth Reece, Tri-Rivers, $2,000; Faith Demico, Tri-Rivers, $2,000; Avery Zwayer, North Union, $4,000; Adrianna Woodruff, North Union, $4,000; Lily Arledge, North Union, $4,000; Evan Woodford, North Union, $1,000; Lydia Nordquist, North Union, $3,000 and Blake Ackerman, North Union, $3,000. Recipients not pictured include: Connor Cox ($2,000), Logan Suiter ($2,000), Jessica Valentine ($2,000), Hailee Miller ($2,000), Austin Cox ($3,000), Karissa McGinnis ($3,000), Jerrod Webber ($2,000), Elizabeth Swihart ($2,000) and Preston Elswick ($2,000).

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