Congress's program to convert 400,000 military
vehicles to unmanned operation will save lives and
create jobs. Do you need to improve your job
skills to do those jobs?
The 4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology
(SET) program thatTC Tinkers 4-H Robot Club
offers is designed to provide a self-paced, job
skills training from beginner to advanced.
You can acquire new skills or upgrade the ones you
have. For Volunteers ages 20 years old or
older, program participation is free. For
youth ages 5 to 19 years old, Membership costs $10
per year. Instruction, tools, and materials used
are donated by people who want to see Michigan get back
on its feet. Program participation is designed to be
life-long and even offers a 60 year participation pin as
one of the many awards you can earn along the way.
Hi I am Paul Grayson, Marine Engineer and
military veteran. I am a 4-H Volunteer leading TC
Tinkers 4-H Robot Club, which is one of the new breed
of Technology Clubs that the US Department
of Agriculture is promoting. Their goal
is to provide a learn-by-doing education outside of the
classroom for one million young people. In the process,
I think some of us older people are going to learn a lot
too.
Everyone learns by doing. Each Member and Volunteer
picks a project to
build which they will exhibit at the fair in
August of each year as a demonstration of
their progress and show off their skills to potential
employers. Participants learn each
of the skills required to produce their finished
project. Projects can be practical or not but
are always educational. Participants learn
science, technology, engineering, math, leadership, shop
skills, budgeting, welding, machining, electronics,
physics, self-reliance, and more, all by building
projects.
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Current Members and Volunteers are building:
an R2D2, an animatronic Puffle, a windmill powered
skate board, an animatronic C3-PO, a robot right
hand, a robot left hand, an autonomous truck,
ethanol fuel, an electric car conversion,
refining of #2 Diesel fuel, and other amazing
things. What would you like to
build?
Since tractors and other
machines drive themselves, my 4-H
project is a Robot Truck. To learn how
they work I am building one, like
the ones Congress has required the US armed forces
to use.
Congressional Mandate:1/3
Unmanned by 2015
PUBLIC LAW 106–398—OCT. 30, 2000, NATIONAL
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FORFISCAL YEAR 2001
SEC. 220. UNMANNED ADVANCED
CAPABILITY COMBAT AIRCRAFT AND GROUND COMBAT VEHICLES.
(a) GOAL.—It shall be a goal of the
Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned,
remotely controlled technology such that— (1) by 2010, one-third of the aircraft in the
operational deep strike force aircraft fleet are
unmanned; and (2) by 2015, one-third
of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned.
PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6,
2006, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR
2006 SEC. 261. REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT
AND USE OF ROBOTICS AND UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE SYSTEMS.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than
nine months after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology, and Logistics shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the
development and utilization of robotics and unmanned
ground vehicle systems by the Department of Defense.
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by
subsection (a) shall include the following: (9) An assessment of the progress being made to
achieve the goal established by section 220(a)(2) of the
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law
106–398; 114 Stat. 1654A–38) that, by 2015, one-third of
operational ground combat vehicles be unmanned.
PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006 120 STAT.
2365, JOHN WARNER NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2007
SEC. 941. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE POLICY ON
UNMANNED SYSTEMS. (d) REPORT.—Not
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report containing—
(2) an implementation plan for the
policy that includes— (C) an
assessment of progress towards meeting the goals
identified for the subset of unmanned air and ground
systems established in section 220 of the Floyd D.
Spence National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into
law by Public Law 106–398; 114 Stat. 1654A–38).
BUTTONS FOR
SALE
Show your support for Congress's
program to save lives and create jobs by wearing a
1/3 button.
I will be glad to send you a 1/3
Unmanned by 2015 button that
wasMade In
Michigan for a donation to my
Unmanned Robot Truck Project of $5 or more.
(If you prefer to pay by check,
make checks payable
to AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL
MAGIC.)
Inspirational
quote:
"You can make rapid
progress if you don't care who gets the credit." - Scott
Carter - Farm Bureau Insurance, Acme,
MI.
