A big part of FIRST is how we work as a team and use the Core Values, which are Innovation, Inclusion, Fun, Teamwork, Impact, and Discovery. We enjoy doing outreach throughout the year to share our love of STEAM and Robotics with our community. Below are some recent activities and events that we have participated in.
Impact - Teamwork - Fun - Discovery - Inclusion - Innovation
We impact our community by sharing our love of STEAM and robotics. We have helped Girl Scout troops earn robotics and coding badges and we've made STEAM kits for kids. We also enjoy supporting other FIRST teams! Coopertition is the best :)
We use teamwork to complete tasks, like when we formed Team Alpha Geek Production Company to create our Story Quest. We worked as a large group at times and in smaller groups throughout the season to get more things done.
We have a lot of Fun in Lego league, for example we go on field trips, play games, have pizza parties, make crafts like frames and ornaments, and enjoy hanging out. We also celebrate our accomplishments with parties and fun outings at Urban Air. We are Team ALPHA GEEK.
We always like to try new things and find solutions to problems. We have learned many new things about robot including gears, gyro drift, MyBlocks, and more! We also learned new ways to stay organized and make decisions like using a kanban board, GANNT chart and PERT chart.
We include everybody in everything we do. Everybody on our team has built and coded the robot and help run the robot game. We also respect each other's differences, like when we lit fireworks for Diwali to celebrate our success at Regionals last year. We are better togther!
We use creative thinking to solve problems in innovative ways both in the robot game, and in our innovation project. When we have a problem we try to find ways to solve it. In robot we found a new way to make our transitions shorter using event and wait blocks.
If you would like to learn more about the different ypes of outreach we have done, visit our OUTREACH page.
Or, if you're interested in the Girl Scout badge we helped our local troups earn, visit our GIRL SCOUT page.
If you would like to learn more about the STEAM kits that we've made and donated visit our STEAM KITS page.