We do lots in our community. Here you can find a list of outreach we've done to encourage new members to join our team and show our community what FIRST is all about.
We had four robots walk in the 2022 parade with us. Two from 1100 and two from our team. We had people driving from the back of a pick-up truck and people walking next to robots driving them. After the parade, we did demos open to anyone at the center of town. For the 2024 and 2026 parades we drove robots down Boston Road and held demos at the Sutton High School basketball courts for residents and non-residents of all ages.
We brought our robot to the homecoming soccer games at Sutton High School in September of 2021 and 2023. Anyone who wanted to was allowed to drive, pick up cubes, and shoot balls from the robots.
We attend this event every year and bring all our robots, VEX and FRC. There is always a large crowd which wants to try to drive one or two. It's always a pleasure to explain the mechanics and how things work to people of all ages. It's very important to us to show our farm oriented town what technology looks like today and compare similarities and differences to their tractors and tools.
We brought our VEX and FRC robots to demos where the middle and high schoolers could drive, ask questions, and sign up to join the team. This led to more students hearing about who we are and what we do!
Walk Out of Darkness (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)is an event our school's community service learning club hosts each year to bring awareness to suicide and raise money which goes towards prevention. The Robotics team participated and raised over $1,500. Next year we plan to participate again and raise even more money. You can donate to the foundation using this link:Â