At the first ever STEAM night for the kindergarden, we met with 1st-9th graders to discuss what STEAM engagement looks like for robotics students.
Shortly after the end of the Centerstage season, we met with 3rd-6th graders at the Region 11 STEAM Carnival where we presented our Mario Kart replica.
Here our team discussed the different facets of the First Tech Challenge with others who do not have access to STEM extracurriculars.
Late December, one of Carter's parents read a facebook post asking for help refactoring toys for her daughter with trisomy-13, comperable to down syndrome. Rather than alone offer his talents, Carter decided to draw the rest of us in too, starting what would later go by the name of Operation Spark Joy. After being featured on multiple international news networks we began to recieve an outpouring of donations in toys to refactor.
In september 2023 we hosted the Kickoff for our district. Here teams learned more about Centerstage gameplay.
Here Aledo Robotics met with a fireman to learn about the neuances of STEM applications in the real world.
Trinity Valley Summer Camp
Week long summer camp for middle schoolers of TVS in Fort Worth.
STEAM Camp Invention
Week Long Summer camp for GT students of Aledo Elementary.
Bearcat Nation 101
Afternoon event where Aledo Families gain info on clubs like robotics.
FLYSET for FTC
Presented to other FTC teams the secrets to a successful year in FIRST.
For a 9 week span we helped Benbrook library's rising FLL team as they prepared for the new season's game to be released.
For this event we teamed up with our sister team 20325 to play rocket league with our robots at a local church's youth night.
May 2023 we visited the world's first automated McDonalds, presented our fry launching robot, and recieved a $5000 grant from the buisness.
Here we designed and presented a fast moving Mario Kart replica that we designed to over 400 children.
FTC TEAM 6566: OUTREACH