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FIRST Mentor Ready and Volunteer Ready Training + Data Protection Event Training

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:52:44 +0000

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) release a new online training program for mentors and volunteers. I would have liked more detail on what to expect so writing it down here. It is easy to get to … Continue reading →

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FIRST Mentor Ready and Volunteer Ready Training + Data Protection Event Training was first posted on October 3, 2025 at 9:52 pm.
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why a FIRST robotics WFFA essay means so much

Jeanne Boyarsky — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:03:00 +0000

FIRST robotics competition team 694 nominated me as their Woodie Flowers Award candidate this year. (I won the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award in 2012 at the NYC regional. That was a long time ago so the essay was completely different). … Continue reading →

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FTC Judge vs Judge Advisor

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:24:23 +0000

I’ve been judging FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) competitions for many years. It’s a lot of fun. The kids tell you about their robot and outreach and learnings and more. You also negotiate with other judges to determine the award winners. … Continue reading →

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FTC Judge vs Judge Advisor was first posted on January 14, 2024 at 10:24 pm.
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The circle of FRC and the importance of outreach

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sat, 13 May 2023 20:46:54 +0000

Yesterday, Stuyvesant Robotics did a demo at the Winter Garden in Lower Manhattan from 4-7pm. This was very special to me because I found out that FIRST robotics existed at a demo from the same team and the same location. … Continue reading →

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the value of a “talking stick”

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:01:41 +0000

Last weekend was the FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) kickoff where they announce the game for the season. Our team uses the time after kickoff on Saturday to discuss the rules and strategies in small groups followed up by one large … Continue reading →

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Switching your Gradle builds from JCenter to Maven Central

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 15:17:53 +0000

JCenter is being decommissioned on May 1st, 2021. Since many Gradle builds use JCenter by default, this means your Gradle build file is likely to have jcenter() in it. This means you have a few months to switch to Maven … Continue reading →

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Switching your Gradle builds from JCenter to Maven Central was first posted on February 6, 2021 at 10:17 am.
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searching lessons

Jeanne Boyarsky — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:23:31 +0000

The 694 FIRST robotics team is doing history webcasts. During today’s Joe and Seth were talking about how there used to be a “Looking Forward” post where 694 was listed as a favorite for the Hartford competition for the first … Continue reading →

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composite builds in gradle

Jeanne Boyarsky — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:56:53 +0000

In the lab today, I got a nice Gradle question. I’m answering it here on the blog so all the students can see it. (and anyone else who is curious). The use case We have a common library that this … Continue reading →

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FRC using VS Code and Eclipse together for WPILIb programming

Jeanne Boyarsky — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:34:28 +0000

I’ve tried using VS Code. I enjoy uisng it for things like JavaScript, Python and Markdown. With Java, I feel like I’m hitting my head against the wall. I’m too used to a “full powered IDE” so an editor makes … Continue reading →

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five hours of real coding in Visual Studio Code

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:32:05 +0000

I tried to code for real in Visual Studio Code for the first time. This means not just dealing with my first impressions, but actually trying to get something done. I spent five hours coding today. The project I was … Continue reading →

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