Argonaut Elementary FLL |
Ongoing |
We have been helping coach an elementary school FLL team by teaching them engineering concepts and have been teaching the same to students too young to participate in FLL, additionally working on establishing a FLL jr team.
Sunday Friends |
9.22.19 |
We went to the annual Sunday Friends charity event to demo our robot to various children and adult, letting them drive the robot around to explain different parts of FIRST to interested community members.
Saratoga Library |
Ongoing |
We worked with our local library to organize STEM classes every month, creating curriculum focused on Arduino to challenge children and teach them about Digital Electronics.
Farmer's Market |
8.17.19 |
At our farmer's market, we explained how Manta worked to all customers, described our club and robotics opportunities in FIRST, and explained engineering classes at our high school, raising awareness about STEM and robotics in the community and garnering more interest in robotics from young minds.
CityTeam of San Jose |
8.6-8.8.19 |
Throughout the week, we taught kids to build and test mini bots, a great introduction to STEM for them since many of them had not had any similar opportunities prior to this.
GoBabyGo! |
8.3.19 |
We made mobile toy cars for toddlers with disabilities to allow them to walk earlier in life than they do currently, increasing their self-confidence and allowing them to keep up with their peers physically and socially.
KLA |
8.2.19 |
We visited a sponsor, KLA, providing a presentation for employees and playing in a set of mini-matches with other FRC teams to learn more about KLA and the industry in addition to forging connections with other local teams.
LGS Recreation |
7.5.19 |
At this summer program, we created a mini-challenge using FTC parts for 4th and 5th graders to accomplish, and had members lead lessons helping the children draw and build new parts for their push bots. This resulted in the students gaining hands on experience and learning the basic engineering process: define a problem, imagine a solution, build the idea, test, and redefine problems. Furthermore, by presenting an FRC robot for the children to see and engage with, we exposed over 50 children to FIRST and STEM programs in our community.
FLL Global Innovation |
7.2.19 |
Our primary role was as volunteers working closely with event managers to maintain a timely schedule, and we got the added opportunity of watching all the teams present their products and learning a lot about innovative solutions to problems during space travel.
Apple Demonstration |
6.28.19 |
We demonstrated the robot to Apple employees interested in FIRST to encourage employees to become involved as FIRST volunteers.
Gang Impacted Teens |
6.26/6.28.19 |
Through this event, we taught high schoolers how to build a robot with FTC parts for use in a race to test the robots. Ultimately, the purpose of this was to expose students from underprivileged communities to FIRST and STEM programs while encouraging students to participate in robotics.
Redwood Middle School |
5.23.19 |
We drove around the FRC and FTC robots at a middle school and spoke to classes about the FIRST programs and ways to get involved at our high school to encourage students to engage in robotics and FIRST.
Rotary Art Show |
5.4-5.5.19 |
We demonstrated FTC and FRC robots at our local rotary art show, answered questions about our robots and our program, and taught people how to design and make button to expose people to FIRST and STEM programs.