Outreach and Fundraising

FUNDRAISING


Capital Bots is sponsored by many different companies some of them are:





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.