Outreach

All Main Sequence teams, including Nano, volunteer to show off our robots and code to students throughout Helena. We teach and demonstrate how to use Spike Prime robots and often find new team members along the way who share our love for robotics.

Members of Nano volunteer to assist with the setup, organization, running, and teardown of the Festival of Trees. The Festival of Trees is a Helena community event that takes place in December. 

As we collect feedback and interview experts, not only do we inquire about their expertise, but we share our designs with them. Even though an expert may specialize in one area, we share our entire innovation project and robot design with them. This helps to spread the word of FLL around our community.

Team Nano shares a practice space with three FTC teams. Throughout the season, we share our project and robot design with these teams. In addition, we partner with them to enhance our knowledge of CAD Design software, 3D Printing, machinery, and media platforms. We have truly learned so much from FTC!

Team Nano embraces STEM with everything we do. Two organizations in the Helena community, STARBASE and ExplorationWorks,  focus on spreading STEM to the community. Over the season, we have taken classes from and assisted with teaching in these organizations. We spread the word of FLL and teach students how to use Spike Prime robots.

As we were collecting plastic at our recycling drives, we also created informational posters at each of our collection stations. These posters educated participants on how to handle their plastic after use. While facilitating the drive, Nano also spread the word of FLL and our mission: Make the Sea Plastic Free!

We share our practice space with three other FLL teams. Throughout the season, we have shared python coding, robot engineering design, and innovation project strategies. 

Each year, we take our innovation projects and turn them into reality.  The Prospects Challenge is centered around students who are creating businesses.  Last year, we submitted our business proposal and won an honorable mention in the "New Product" category.  This year, we created a business proposal for our plastic collection and recycling organization.

Team Nano assisted one of our sister FTC teams with the Hollis Project. They are adapting a controller for a small RC wheelchair toy for a young boy named Hollis, who has a disability. Team Nano helped Nebula to design this specialized toy.

We also assisted Nebula with their Braille Project. They are designing a simple, cost-efficient version of Braille Assistive Technology. Team Nano helped to CAD design a 3D printed case to enclose the system.