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Outreach
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 $10,430 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 22,000 people every week, providing an essential resource in a dire time. Through our donation we were featured on NBC News.
July - September 2020
Door Openers and Face Shields
We have donated over 1000 door openers and 7500 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 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.
November 2022 -
Our FIRST Journey
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, aka FIRST, is the organization behind the FTC challenge as well as for many other robotics challenges. Through FIRST, students learn not only technical skills but also valuable life lessons. We shared the rich experiences of high school students in FIRST, through our book series, Our FIRST Journey. This is series has been translated into 43 languages and distributed at no cost to 13,000 readers, to inspire others to join this amazing community.
