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outreach
Our outreach department is made up of the Link and Vision Branches.
We curate workshops for students from K-12, fundraise money for our team and philanthropic efforts, design projects that positively impact our community, and thoroughly document our progress along the way.
In order to achieve our high goals, we meet up with industry leaders and educators, design curriculums with direct feedback from students, and actively work with institutions to improve our community.
April - August 2020
alameda county community food bank
We have raised over $5,000 for the Alameda County Community Food Bank. We presented a check on June 15, and we talked with their staff members about the impact of our present and future contributions. The ACCFB services over 20,000 people every week, providing an essential resource in a dire time. To add on, this curriculum has been utilized as an open source document that has been accessed by over 400 FLL teams, including team Chocolate Cyborgs, an FTC team. Over the course of 16 weeks, we served students of a wide age-group ranging from 5th to 12th graders. We decided to fundraise due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and we raised money by holding engineering and coding classes, advertising on social media, and creating a website to make it easier for donors.
July - September 2020
door openers/face shields
We have donated over 200 door openers and 300 face shields to the Alameda County Community Foodbank. In addition, we had donated the materials that we have made to Washington, Stanford, and Kaiser hospitals around the Bay Area. We worked with Washington Hospital Infection Control unit, and a couple front-line workers at the ACCFB to distribute and further enhance our products. Since PPE was at a very limiting access, we utilized an open-source designer material to create our face shields. As part of our motive to implementing this idea was to create a tool that allows front-line workers to open doors, access their keyboards without being afraid of outcomes, and grab materials without being exposed to other items. As a result, we have received many letters of appreciation from the food bank and we were much appreciated for our generosity.
October 2020
work with global prize finalist
We worked with a STEM teacher in Guadalajara, Mexico at an all-girls school to improve our existing Engineering and Coding curriculum. We were also invited to speak about our experiences to 30 high school girls and introduce the field of Robotics to them.
December 2020 - January 2021
shadowing program
We worked with a STEM teacher in Guadalajara, Mexico at an all-girls school to improve our existing Engineering and Coding curriculum. We were also invited to speak about our experiences to 30 high school girls and introduce the field of Robotics to them.
July - September 2020
robot driving experience
We took our robot to local parks and showcased it to over 500 students. We led this interactive event by allowing the students to drive the robot on a mini soft-tile field we made. They were very intrigued to learn more about our design process and the field of robotics.
October 2021 - January 2022
ConnectCon Series
We led a series where we interviewed professionals from various STEM fields, such as an ethical hacker and a NASA engineer. We also led a hands-on virtual event where attendees followed along with the professionals to create a prototype of their own.
November 2021
WISTEM Panel
We worked with two women FIRST alumni from UC Berkeley and Cornell to host an event where they spoke about their journey and experiences working in the FIRST community. Through showing our chassis CAD and waste sorter, we got 30 girls at Girls inc. inspired to learn more about robotics.
November 2020 - March 2022
crash course series
With over 100 videos of content, our team has developed a video series that was created with an aim of mentoring FIRST teams that we have formed and guided along with other rookie teams who are new to the FIRST community. We have received over 64,000 views with over 950 watch hours in total.
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