Outreach and Fundraising
FUNDRAISING
Capital Bots is sponsored by many different companies some of them are:
QinetQ
Dell
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Virtual/Online Outreach Activities
During this season the Capital Bots team was able to outreach to other professionals in who work with robotics and space! We were also able to teach other children about STEM.
Haycock Steam Night
On the day of the event, it was managed entirely by our new junior members, our team got young kids interested in STEM activities; specifically robotics. We demonstrated how our robot worked as well.
VA Tech
In this event we showed kids our robot and a whole FTC match. Which allowed us to teach kids about FTC. This was also a good learnign experiance for us, where we got to learn about AI.
KID Museaum
CONNECTING WITH INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
PAST YEARS OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
SPREADING FIRST AND FTC THROUGHOUT OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Robot demo and FTC information session at India International School
We conducted an outreach event where we set up a partial field and demonstrated our robot for this season. Kids were really excited about getting a chance to drive the robot and see it in action. Many of them were interested in learning about our recruiting plans for next season. We were able to spread FIRST values to members if the community.
Haycock Steam Night - june 12, 2021
Capital Bots participated in Haycock Elementary School STEAM Night.
Our team got young kids interested in STEM activities; specifically robotics. We demonstrated how our robot worked, like moving, strafing and the subsystems. We took a 3-D printer to demonstrate basic 3-D printing ideas.
We also presented a slideshow of what our team is about, what we did last year (fundraising and outreach, build, and programming), and answered questions.
Girls In Technology Connect Event for Robotics
A team member of Capital Bots, Aamani, represented our team in the GIT Protégé program. During this time, she taught other young women the fundamentals of FTC, including this season's field and challenge. She presented our robot from last year, and she moved through the field to show the movement of the Mecanum wheels. There were many middle school and high school girls who wanted to learn more about FTC and how to join.
Robotics Global Implementation Brainstorm with FLL Team
An FLL team from New Jersey reached out to us for feedback on their FLL Core Values research project. They developed an app using Django that displays the varying prices of electricity.
In our virtual meeting, we provided feedback regarding changing the order of information displayed in the app and adding better examples for core values.