Our team, FRC Team 8717, Cyber Vipers, is an FRC team from Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ever since we started in 2021, our rookie year, we have made huge strides in our progress as well as our community! Our team has grown from 5 specialized sub-teams to over double that amount with a total of 13 specialized sub-teams to account for our growth in versatility in skill throughout the years. In our community, we've had an immense impact, from volunteering for 16 FIRST events, to advocating for STEAM classes in our school!

When we meet up, we work with one another to help develop STEAM skills while inspiring and encouraging others to do the same. We also encourage diversity within our team through 21 different ethnicities as well as diversity in our genders and identities. Through Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition, we help create a community that are full of new friends always willing to help one another!

2023-2024 

• Showcased our robot at the Pack Expo to promote FIRST

• Ran 4 Workshops

• Ran DO-Lympics, a school-wide organization-based bonding activity

• Volunteered at 5 FLL Events, 1 FTC Events, and Hosted 2 Events

• Ran 3 Campus Beautification Project Events

• Partnered with our school's AVID program

• Partnered with FIRST Ladies, organization that promotes gender equity and inclusion

• Partnered with Project Pangea, organization that promotes sustainability

• Partnered with M.E. (Menstrual Equity)

• Formed the Nevada STEAM Advocacy Alliance

• Participated in our school's 8th Annual Women's Speaker Series featuring Angela Quick (FIRST Nevada's Regional Director)

• Translated documents into 8 languages

2022-2023 

• Showcased our robot at the Science and Technology Festival to let young students see an FRC robot first-hand

• Guided Freshmen through Orientation, showed the potential of STEAM through our robot

• Fundraised at our school's tailgate, fostering the returning community of our school post-pandemic 

• Volunteered at 6 FLL Events, Hosted 1 Event, and Ran 1 Event 

• Hosted a Double FLL Qualifier with 50+ teams with a majority of our team volunteering for it

  • Few of our members sang the national anthem

• Presented Workshops for Public Speaking and Creating a Scouting App

• Sang the national anthem at an FLL Championship

• Assisted the Theater Program by 3-D printing functional gears for our school's musical

• Assisted Track and Field to clean up their equipment by making custom tools

• Assisted AP Physics by fixing their toy cars using 3-D printed axles

• Continued to create engaging comic books

• Translated our Brochures and Business Plans into Spanish, Tagalog, Korean, and Farsi for more accessibility 

• Created a Robotics Class for the upcoming year to promote STEAM education

• Inspired other classes like Engineering to be formed through our display of STEAM skills

• Partnered with Robotics STEM Advocacy Alliance

2021-2022

• Volunteered at 4 FLL Events and 1 FTC Event

• Volunteered to lead VIP tours at the Las Vegas Regional

• Fundraised at our school's tailgate, fostering the returning community of our school post-pandemic

• Partnered with the Business and Marketing Class to brainstorm for our team name

• Assisted Softball to sell school concessions

• Created comic books to engage younger students into the values of FIRST 

• Featured on our school's announcements to spread STEAM engagement

• Participated in our school's eighth grade orientation

• Partnered with our school's art department to create our first team shirts with a T-Shirt Press

• Partnered with the Rookie Ring