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Hi, everyone. Welcome to today's Live Session where I am very pleased to share with you the VEX CTE Workcell. This is very exciting because this is a new Capstone for the VEX Continuum. The CTE Workcell talks about factory automation, industrial robotics, and the Workcell itself. These are very cool things that we have an opportunity to teach our students, and our students have an opportunity to learn.

We're going to dive into the introduction to the Workcell here today. We'll talk about it, the curriculum associated with it, and the educator certification course affiliated with it. We'll also preview the next live session where we'll actually get into a little bit more of the, no pun intended, nuts and bolts of the Workcell, discuss how it works, and explore some of the wonderful things you can do with it.

Now, if you're watching today's live session, don't forget, if you have any questions about anything we discuss today, you can go ahead and ask the question to the VEX Professional Development Plus community, or myself, or another member of the education team. We'd be more than happy to answer your question.

In addition to that, if you want a more in-depth dive into the VEX CTE Workcell, you can schedule a 1-on-1 session. Please feel free to schedule a 1-on-1 session via VEX Professional Development Plus. If you want more information about the Workcell, how it operates, some different things associated with it, or the Workcell curriculum, or all the above, schedule that 1-on-1 session. Myself or someone from the education team will be more than happy to chat with you and take you through all the wonderful things about this particular Workcell.

We've been working very hard on this for the last few months, both developing the VEXcode coding software for the Workcell, which I'll talk about here in a little bit, and developing the curriculum for it. It's really been a labor of love. I've really enjoyed diving into this curriculum and the product itself. This is something that I didn't teach in my classroom. If you think about VEX, you think about the VEX continuum, beginning with VEX 123 all the way up through EXP and V5, those are all mobile robotics, right? We're building, engineering, and coding a robot, a drivetrain, a manipulator, to do all these really cool things with a mobile robot. This is different from that. This is not a mobile robot. This is teaching factory automation.

So let's talk about why for a moment. Why are we introducing this in our continuum? Why are we teaching this? And what are our students going to gain from the VEX CTE Workcell? Number one, this is actually the second iteration of our Workcell. The original Workcell came out about two years ago, and based on feedback from customers and you, we learned that people were having a difficult time mastering the Workcell, building it, and there was a lot of metal involved. Users were spending a lot of time building their Workcell and troubleshooting that instead of learning all the different aspects of the Workcell.

That's when we came up with this new version of the CTE Workcell, in which most of it is prebuilt. You'll actually get this when you receive your kit on the CTE Workcell. Instead of having to build the arm, the arm is already prebuilt for you. Now, there are other things here, which I'll go over shortly, on the Workcell that you will build. So there is some engineering involved.

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But hopefully with the CTE Workcell, the engineering will not be an impediment for the actual student learning what we want them to actually learn, and what we want you to be able to teach.

So let's talk about the teaching for a moment. What are we actually teaching with the Workcell? What are we hoping to accomplish? When you think about, when you hear the term Workcell, and you hear these terms like factory automation, I think it's helpful to kind of break these down into individual parts, right? So this is kind of all under the heading number one of Industry 4.0.

So when we talk about Industry 4.0, what do we mean by that? Well, some of the examples that we talk about in the curriculum to help contextualize this for students is that if you go into a grocery store, if you go into a Walmart, or whatever your particular local grocery store may be, you're gonna see things on the shelves. It's very rare nowadays when you go into a grocery store, go into any kind of store, and you see a bunch of empty shelves. So we're able to keep our shelves stocked really throughout the entire year, no matter what the demand is.

Moreover, you've probably purchased something from an online site like Amazon or something else, and you have the option to get it delivered to you the next day, or you get it within a few days. Or maybe during the past holiday season, you tried to get something rushed to you because you thought of that last-minute gift for your relative, or your friend, or whomever that happened to be, and it gets it to you right away. How is it able to happen? Well, that's able to happen as a result of Industry 4.0 and this idea of factory automation.

So automation in our factories makes it very efficient and easier for those factories to get the goods to us as consumers. Again, whether that's going to the grocery store and seeing the shelves themselves are stocked, or ordering something online and having it delivered directly to us. Automation inside of factories allows us to be a lot more efficient in those particular factories.

What advantage does automation give you? Well, number one, the robots can run for 24 hours, right? They can run for 24 hours, seven days a week. Now, I work pretty hard on my job here at VEX Robotics, but I do not work 24 hours, seven days a week, right? Robots have the ability to do that. Automation has the ability to do that. These robots can run 24 hours, seven days a week.

In addition to that, when we talk about robots, we oftentimes talk about the 3 D's of robots. That's dirty, dull, and dangerous. Now, in factories, there can be some, you know, a little bit more dangerous jobs in factories, but really when we talk about automation in a factory sense, we're talking about the dull aspects of it. Robots are great at doing very boring and repetitive tasks over and over and over and over and over again.

Again, if you contrast that with us as humans, if we're doing a very dull, monotonous job, we might be able to do it quickly and efficiently for the first two hours that we work, but probably by hour seven or eight, we're not as quick and efficient as we were at the beginning of the day, because the job is so very dull and it's so very boring. Oftentimes people do not work very well in that environment, and who can blame them, right? Well, robots work very well in those particular environments.

So as a result of that, that is what leads to a lot of the efficiencies that we see that, again, allow us to have our packages delivered to us so quickly or allow us to go to the grocery store and have those particular shelves always stocked. So this idea of automating factories and using data science and using algorithms and using computer science in order to be able to get those things out of the factories and into our hands as quickly and efficiently as possible, that's what automation is very good at.

And then you kind of break it down, the next step underneath of that, that's when you get into this idea of a Workcell. So this is a good example of a Workcell in front of me right now. The Workcell has the robotic arm, then it has this conveyor system right here, then it has things like disks. You can see that you have the disks that come in the kit. And these cubes here.

Basically, in the upper levels of our curriculum, what you're doing with the robot arm and what you're doing with the conveyor system is you are using those things to get goods, and to get those goods in the place where they need to be as efficiently as possible. So if you've ever seen boats delivering things on a pallet, or if you've ever unloaded a pallet yourself, if you are moving or something along those lines, you know, those things are very tightly packed on a pallet.

Through automation, through this Workcell system right here, you're able to determine what things go where, so what goes where on the pallet. You're able to get things, as many things on the particular pallet as possible, and then obviously get that pallet to where it needs to go to get those goods into the hands of the consumer as fast as possible. That's what these conveyor systems do. The sensors on the robot are able to distinguish between what cube or what disk or what thing goes on one particular pallet and what goes somewhere else. That is all handled with automation, and that's all handled, again, through these particular Workcell subs.

Sometimes you have co-robots, you have workers, I'm sorry, you have robots working with one another. So you have a series of these Workcells together, whether that's doing package delivery or it's, you know, automation inside of a car plant. So you're actually putting a car together, whatever those particular things are. You have these work cells working together to accomplish that.

And then kind of the last part of it, and where we start with the curriculum, that's just what the robot arm, okay? So in our Workcell here, as you can see in this image right here, and this is how we actually start the curriculum, it's not with this entire Workcell, but just with the arm on a tile right here. We have a six-axis robot arm, okay? And what this six-axis robot arm is able to do is it's able to move along all those different axes as I'm using my hand right now to do it, it's able to move across all these different axes here, again, to pick things up, to place things, to grab things, to move all along what's called its envelope. And that's the direction the robot can move across this different axes. It's able to move along its envelope to grab things and do whatever that we, the humans, are coding the robots to be able to do, okay?

So this is kind of the underlying stage of everything is this six-axis robotic arms. Now, in factory automation, you have different types of robotics arms, you have different axes on the robotics arms, you have different sizes of them, different shapes of them. But the one that we have in the Workcell curriculum here, again, is the six-axis robotics arm. And so when I say axis, what I'm referring to there is a degree of freedom. So for example, the axis at the bottom here, this allows the robot to rotate on its base right here. And then I have another axis right here on the side. This allows the arm to do this. Axis, again, we're talking about degree of freedom. I have another axis right here, which allows me to move up and down. And then at my endpoint here, I have an axis here that allows that to rotate, another axis here that allows this to rotate. And then to finally here at the tip here, this allows me to rotate in different directions there. So that's a six-axis robotic arm.

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Again, that's the kind of base that you could then build up for this particular Workcell here, which then you can also build up with multiple of them, and that's how you have the actual factory automated system.

So let me kinda show you the top-down view now so you can get a better view of the conveyor system and everything going on here. So here's the arm that I just told you about a moment ago right here. But you can see here, the different, the conveyor system right here, which is powered by the motor right there, okay? So you can imagine now a disk traveling along my conveyor system here being picked up by my robotic arm here, and then as a result, being placed somewhere else or being placed, you know, into a disk feeder system here if I had this set up differently. But there's all different things that I can do with it in terms of the actual conveyor system there.

Here you can see I have different cubes set up on a pallet. Here is a single pallet right here that you get with your kit. And here you can see the cubes that I can put on top of my pallet right here. Here you can see the disk. I have disks inside of my little feeder right here. So now, you know, what can happen, here, you can see there's a motor right here. So I can run this motor. That then will run this feeder system here. And then what will happen is the disk will come out and they'll run on the conveyor system here. And then I have these different diverters here, which can then divert, convert the disk or the cubes in different places on the conveyor system. And you can see those are run by my pneumatic system back here. So these can go up or down. So this would allow, if it's up, it'll allow it to go through. If it's down, it's obviously gonna block something, okay? But that diverter system is actually run by my pneumatic system back over here.

All of this is run from an EXP brain right here, as you can see. So this is all run off of the EXP brain. So I would in VEXcode pair my EXP brain to VEXcode in order to be able to make it run and do all those different things with it. But you can see via VEXcode now, I can run my robotic arm, I can also run my motors. Here, you'll also see sensors. I have one sensor right there. I have another sensor right here. These are optical sensors, which then allow me to detect the color of a particular disk as it's going through there, okay? Or a cube, that was a cube, I'm sorry, or a color of a disk, so I can identify it's a red disk and have the red disk picked up in place somewhere, excuse me, or I can have a green disk. I can pick up in place the green disk some other place, you know, whatever it is, again, in that work envelope that the arm itself can actually move. So I have the different sensors there.

This over here is my signal tower, okay? And it's also my emergency stop. This is something that's covered a lot in industrial robotics in which you always have an emergency stop. This helps keep everybody safe in a factory system in case the robot is doing something unexpected. We have this project in VEXcode where any time I hit the emergency stop up here, it shuts down everything that I am doing from my Workcell in my factory automation perspective.

I also have these back here. I have a pen back here and my pen attachment there. So there are two different attachments that I can put on my Workcell right here. So right here is the magnet. And again, inside all of my disks and my cubes, there's a magnetic center. You could actually see it a little bit right there. There's a magnetic center that I can use my magnet to pick up and place things on my conveyor system where I can put it in different feeder systems, whatever it is right there. Now, I can take the magnet off and I can replace the magnet with the pen.

Okay, now, there's also a whiteboard that goes on my tile right here. Now, you might be asking yourself, well, why would I want a pen?

Robotic arms in an industrial aspect do not have pens. Great question. So what we do with the pens is we use that to teach the Cartesian system that you see right here. This robot moves along an x, y, and z-axis. This spatial reasoning included in this lab is really, really important. If I'm standing behind the robot, I'm covering up my poster, but you can see this would be my x-axis, moving along my x-axis here. This would be my y-axis, and then up and down, this would be my z-axis. Standing behind the robot gives me that particular orientation. There are also marks on the base of the robot that show my x, y, and z-axis.

Programmatically via VEXcode, via VEXcode Blocks, this is how we're able to move the robot arm. We're able to tell it to move to a particular x, y, and z location on the tile. We can then see where we have a disk or a cube placed, and plug those coordinates into VEXcode to have it pick up and move.

Now, the other thing we have on the tile, which I'll show you, is that the tiles are actually numbered. Let me pull this individual tile out real quick. You can see numbers on the tile. You might not be able to make out the number, but that's number 17, number 11, number five, number four, 10, 16. All of these individual squares are numbered.

Why is that important? In the curriculum, we can say, pick up the cube on tile 16 and place it on square number four. The student has to derive mathematically how they want to manipulate the x, y, and z coordinates in VEXcode to pick up that particular disk or cube and move it to the numbers they've decided.

I remember when I was in the classroom teaching the coordinate system, I never taught Z, but I taught a lot of X and Y. It's a very abstract thing for students to learn. It's difficult for students to understand a coordinate system, especially because it often works in a 3D environment like we see here on our factory arm, but it's given to students on a worksheet in a two-dimensional environment. It's hard for students to understand and contextualize the information. This is a great way to show students an authentic application of something they probably learned in middle school around the Cartesian system and how it can be applied to a robotic arm.

What we're doing for the students, going back to the beginning of the presentation, is scaffolding skills to show them automation, teach them about a six-axis robotic arm, a Workcell, and this incredible aspect of factory automation. The reason I've enjoyed developing this curriculum and working with the software team as we're developing VEXcode is that in robotics, we often talk about jobs of the future, skills of the future, and participating in a 21st-century knowledge-based economy. I remember when I first got into STEM, the big buzzword was computational thinking.

Thank you for your attention and interest in this topic. I hope this presentation has provided valuable insights into the application of the Cartesian system in robotics and the exciting possibilities it offers for future learning and career opportunities.

And computational thinking is something that's still really important today. And now, of course, everything's around AI, right? Artificial intelligence, and how artificial intelligence is gonna impact our lives, and what's gonna happen, you know, right now, or five years from now, or 10 years from now. The great thing about this is automation is something that is happening right now. I gave the example at the beginning of our live session talking about, you know, grocery stores constantly being stocked, and being able to have goods delivered quickly and efficiently, and being able to have, you know, a really robust supply chain as a result of factory automation. Automation is something that is occurring right now.

What this product and what this curriculum does is it's a great introduction to automation for your students. It's a great introduction into Industry 4.0. And what that allows students to do is learn about that information about the world around them. It's a really great thing to show them and to allow them, again, to understand the world that's around them.

Now, you might be saying to yourself, okay, Jason, that's all great information, but, you know, my students are, you know, I teach an English class or I teach a different class. I'm not a STEM teacher, I'm not a math teacher, I'm not a science teacher. So how does this really relate to my students or to my particular class? And what I would say to you is I would say, you know, we teach biology here in the US to every 10th-grade student in the United States, right? So if you're 15 or 16 years old, you are probably in a biology class. We do not tell those students that all of you are in this class because you're gonna grow up and be a biologist. But instead, we feel like it's important for you to learn this information because you are learning about the world around you. And in order to be just a well-informed participant in our culture and our society, it's important for you to learn these particular things.

Same reason why we teach astronomy, right? Same reason why we teach all these different subjects. We don't expect you to grow up and become an astrophysicist, but we feel like it's important that you have this foundational knowledge that you can participate, again, in culture and society. Well, automation is ubiquitous. It is here right now. It is something that impacts all of our students' lives every single day. So we want to be able to teach our students about that. If they want to go, if they want to, you know, study supply chain logistics as they get older, or if they want to become a robotics engineer if they get older, great, that's fantastic. But if they want to go write the next great American novel, that's fantastic also, but they are still learning about their world. They're still learning about their society. They're still learning about something that impacts their culture every single day. And we feel like that's very important. We don't want to shut that information out from our students.

So just like we teach about biology, just like we teach about science, just like we teach about all these particular subjects without the expectation that our students are gonna grow up and become archaeologists or astrophysicists, we feel like automation is here to stay. It's not going anywhere. It's been around for a little bit of a while now. So we feel like it's important to introduce this to our students, and if they want to go and pursue and learn more about it, they can do that. But this creates a really great foundation for them so they can learn about automation, they can learn about Industry 4.0, learn about the world around them, and if they want to take it further, they can go ahead and they can do that.

In addition to that, as I mentioned a moment ago, there's a lot of great math that you'll be learning here, but there's also a lot of great computer science that the students will be learning here, okay? We talk a lot about the importance of students learning computer science, but oftentimes computer science is taught in a very dry, and to be honest with you, dull way. It's taught in ways in which students do not see the connection between computer science and the world around them.

This presents computer science in a very contextualized and a very authentic manner to the students so that students can understand if they're learning about a variable, or if they're learning about project flow, or if they're learning that, you know, robots are computer science itself, what behaviors are, what commands are, and that, you know, computers and robots only understand very precise instructions. This is a great way to be able to teach those particular things, whether it's around decomposition or it's around algorithms or more complex topics in computer science. This is a great way to do it in a very contextualized fashion.

Now, I like to say when I do this presentation about computer science and robotics that, you know, Drive Forward is the new Hello World. I'm gonna have to think of a new pitch now because we're not driving this robot. This gets to the contrast I was mentioning to you before. This is not a mobile robot, but robotics, we feel like, and obviously at VEX, we're a little bit biased, but we feel like this is a really great way to contextualize information for students and present computer science in the same manner that computer science was invented for. Remember, computer science was created in order to solve problems in a STEM environment. Computer science was invented not as a standalone application, but again, to be applied in a STEM context to solve real-world problems. And that is something that we see with this CTE Workcell.

And again, that's why we're so excited to develop this curriculum, to work with the product, and to be able to develop VEXcode with it. So let me go back to my top view real quick and talk about this in a little bit more detail. Again, this is kind of like one of the last stages that you'll get with the Workcell, that you'll be using the EXP brain with the motors, with the sensors, with the pneumatics, and obviously with the robotic arm, to be able to code it and have it move in all these different directions. But at the very beginning of the curriculum, you're just gonna get started with the arm right here on a particular tile, and you can actually direct connect this arm to your device. So you will not even need the EXP brain when you're getting started. You can use VEXcode on your device, just do a direct connection with your device and the robot arm right here. And this is how you get started with the actual Workcell itself.

If you've listened to me give presentations before, you know I'm a big believer in having a very low barrier of entry, but a very robust and high ceiling with the concepts that you're teaching. And you see a great example of that with the Workcell. We are not starting here. Instead, we're gonna start here with a direct control, and we'll be able to move this robot. Even before you begin coding the robot, you'll be able to manually move the robot like I showed you here. You'll be able to manually move the robot, okay? And then you'll also be able to use a Teach Pendant, okay?

Now, what is a Teach Pendant? A Teach Pendant is oftentimes what's used in a factory setting to control the robot arm. And one of the coolest things that we've done with VEXcode is we've created a Teach Pendant that's actually in VEXcode that students can use to learn to move the arm.

So you'll go from manual movements to the actual Teach Pendant itself, and then you'll eventually get to VEXcode Blocks to be able to actually move the robotic arm in the precise movements to perform the actions that we wanted to be able to do.

In the curriculum, again, we will make precise movements manually, then we'll go to the Teach Pendant, and then we will go to actual coding itself. But what we will start is just really understanding and learning the x, y, and z coordinates here. So we'll manually have the robot pick up and move disks and cubes, different parts on there. Then we'll get into the pen attachment, like we talked about with the whiteboard.

Now by drawing shapes and moving the pen with the robotic arm, we're really learning different movements with the actual arm itself. As an example of that, we'll differentiate between absolute movements and relative movements.

An absolute movement is when you tell the robot to go exactly to these three coordinates of X, Y, and Z. So move to X, 100, Y, 50, and Z, 25. That is an absolute movement. A relative movement is like if you want to move in the y-axis plus 20. So no matter where you are on your tile, you want to move in the y-axis plus 20. That's a relative movement.

Imagine giving directions, like your GPS gives you very precise absolute directions. You're gonna go to this house, you're gonna turn this direction, you're gonna do this. Whereas us humans, we oftentimes give directions in a very relative sense, like when you get to the blue house, slow down and then turn. Those are relative directions, right? We oftentimes use that in our own vernacular.

With the robot arm, we differentiate between those different types of movements, and we talk about how those movements are actually coded in VEXcode itself. After we have a lot of practice going through, moving the arm manually, adding the pen attachment, moving the arm via the pen attachment, then we really understand these X, Y, and Z coordinates. We really understand the different movements, whether it's a relative movement or an absolute movement.

That's when we start to introduce the magnet. This is when we start picking up disks, we start placing them, we start stacking them. Imagine before we get into this entire conveyor system right here, I have my pallet and I want to get, you know, a few, let me go to my top view. I want to be able to get three cubes on my pallet, all right? Now, I have to know where to place those on there, because if I try to stack them on top of one another, that's probably not gonna work out for me when I go to ship it, right? But instead, I want to try to get as many cubes on here as possible.

What you see right here is I have nine cubes on the pallet. Imagine now using the precise nature of my robot arm to be able to very precisely place these cubes on my particular pallet, right? That's obviously a little bit difficult to do, but what that requires is knowledge of these X, Y, and Z coordinates. You understand where the different targets are on your palette, where your disks are, how to place them on there. That's how we scaffold all this up before you get this entire Workcell.

When you have this entire Workcell built, now you have the opportunity to do blue disks on one pallet and then blue cubes on one pallet, and then red cubes on a different palette. All this really cool stuff that you can get into once you introduce this conveyor system.

At the end of our courses, you'll have what we call our capstone projects. Now you'll be able to introduce the engineering design process and a lot of really cool functionality with that.

So now students are engaged in that process of iterations as they're trying to figure out the best way or the most efficient way to deliver all of my red disk, for example, or whatever those particular challenges may be. But there's a lot of really cool applications you can do with it. We start with that low barrier of entry, and then we build up to that high ceiling that you're able to do with this particular Workcell here.

As with all of our curriculum that we have with VEX, if you've been using any of our products, you know this, you will see robust teacher support materials that you'll be able to go into and get all the background information, understand the standards alignment, and understand the objectives that we have for our students. We provide tips on how to teach the students and what to do when students get answers wrong in the check your understanding section. We have a section in there on co-creating learning targets. This curriculum features assessment that is student-centered.

I have an entire VEX Professional Development Plus Masterclass on student-centered assessment, so if you have another opportunity to check that out, please do that because that ties into the curriculum that we are doing here with the VEX CTE Workcell. That's all embedded within our teacher notes. Shortly, we will have a certification course associated with the CTE Workcell. You'll be able to get a free intro course. All you have to do is create a PD+ account. You'll be able to get a free intro course to go in and learn everything that you want to learn with this particular Workcell, all the bells and whistles, everything that's associated with it, how to teach it, and questions you may have. All that will be answered for you in our certification course.

Once you get your actual certificate for the certification, you'll be able to participate in our VEX Professional Development Plus community, which is a very robust community of like-minded educators that can really help you take your teaching and learning to the next level with your students.

We are really excited about the CTE Workcell, the capstone of our VEX continuum. We're really excited about getting this into the hands of our users. We're excited about teaching students about factory automation, teaching students about Workcells, and teaching students about a six-axis robotic arm. We're excited about contextualizing computer science for our students. If you're teaching math with your Workcell, you're never gonna have to answer the question of when I'm ever gonna use this in the real world. Teachers hate that question. You don't have to worry about that question in your CTE classroom using the VEX CTE Workcell, because all this information will be contextualized for your students.

We are gonna have another webinar coming up soon, about a month from now, and we're gonna dive further into things like using the Teach Pendant and using VEXcode. We'll have different examples of the Workcell actually working and performing for you. The purpose of this live session was just to kind of give you an introduction to the Workcell, talk about what you can get with it, and talk about what you can see with it.

If you're gonna be at FETC at the end of the month, we will have one of these in our booth. So you can come and check it out, ask questions about it. I'll be there. I can give you a more in-depth examination of our curriculum. I can talk more about the capabilities of the Workcell itself. For all of our friends in the UK and Europe, we will also have one of these at the Bett Conference at the end of the month. So you can come see us there also and come ask your questions about the Workcell.

If you're not going to FETC, and if you're not going to Bett, don't forget, you can schedule a 1-on-1 Session with us. Come to a 1-on-1 Session, ask whatever questions you may have about the Workcell. Go ahead and do that, ask your question. We'll be more than happy to get that answered for you.

And if you want to proceed and work with this Workcell hands-on before you make a decision to purchase it, great. Sign up today for our VEX Robotics Educators Conference taking place at VEX Worlds. There, you'll be able to have a workshop in which you'll be able to see the Workcell, actually be able to code the Workcell, be able to manually move the Workcell and see how the x, y, and z-axes update, how those coordinates update as you manually move the Workcell. Come to our VEX Robotics Educators Conference and you'll be able to participate in all that and much, much more.

We were very excited to open up registration to our VEX PD+ All Access members on Monday of this week. So please come join us at the VEX Robotics Educators Conference, and you can get your hands on this Workcell and dive into it as much as you want to be able to do. Then if you want to have a 1-on-1 Session during the Educators Conference and ask more questions about it, you can go ahead and you can do that. That's the great thing about our Educators Conference.

But I want to meet you. I want to shake your hand. I want to see you, and I want to talk about STEM education with you. So please come to our VEX Robotics Educators Conference. Of course, that takes place during VEX Worlds. It's one of the most exciting times that we have. It's the Super Bowl of robotics. It's such an exciting time. You'll see kids from all over the world taking part in competitive robotics. It's such a fun and engaging environment.

All of that is, in closing, our VEX Robotics Educators Conference. So come see that. It's a wonderful thing. Come see us at FETC. Come see us at Bett. Book a 1-on-1 Session. We are here to answer whatever questions you might have about the VEX CTE Workcell, our curriculum, our Educator Certification Course, whatever it is. And don't forget to sign up for the webinar that we have upcoming here shortly where we'll dive more into the Workcell.

But again, I'm Jason McKenna. It's been my pleasure to be with you at the Live Session. If you've got a question, shoot me up in the community, ask me that question there, and then I'll be more than happy to answer it for you. But until the next time I see you, whether it's at FETC, whether that's in the community, whether that's at the VEX Robotics Educators Conference, I look forward to talking with you.

Thank you for all that you're doing with your students. Thank you for what you're doing for STEM education. I'll talk to you soon. Thank you very much.

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