We were invited to show off our robots at the Bel Air family science night. The Bel Air family science night was a night for kids and their parents to go through different stations based on ‘STREAM’ qualities. There was another station with our robots that the kids could drive around showing off what you can do with the STEAM qualities when you use them right. We had a lot of fun showing adults what our robots can do and how they work. The kids were allowed to drive our robots through our mini mazes to see how it feels to control the robots. This was a fun experience and we would be happy to do it again!

We were invited to take part in “Robot Day,” a day focused on bringing in different robotics programs and showing them to kids and adults. The kids we talked to loved our robots, and we were able to talk to adults about the program while the kids played. There were also some Lego Mindstorms robots, as well as other FTC teams.

We volunteered at a Lego League tournament with our coach as the tournament director. We helped do things like scorekeeping, score running, timekeeping, helping out teams, and running activities in FLL Jr. This is our first year out of FLL after being in it for 4 years and it’s awesome to find out how it all works behind the scenes. It was a blast and we hope to do it again.

We did a fundraiser at the Shoreview Jersey Mike’s to raise money for extra parts. All members of our team took at least two 2 – hour shifts. During the fundraiser, we also dealt with some robot problems, that we eventually fixed. It was fun talking to people and explaining how the robot worked as well as sharing the word of FIRST. People loved our robot drivers licenses (mostly the kids) and our business cards, they also seemed to like the idea of students learning engineering skills.