Into The Deep 24-25

Our Robot Gary!

Growing the FIRST Community

Promoting FIRST!

Throughout the season, we held information sessions in our community and attended STEM events at schools

At these sessions we:

Educated the community about FIRST
Shared our love for FIRST
Demoed our robot
Shared our previous experiences
Answered questions
Inspired students to participate in FIRST

Mentoring FIRST teams!

Helped The Lego Challengers (FLL) with robot design and reviewed inconsistencies in their code and innovation project ideas.

Guided LEGO BRAINIACS (FLL) with designing different robot attachments and explored innovation project ideas.

Met with Code Bricks (FLL) to go over game strategy and how to approach completing missions.

Helped Fantastic Bots (FLL) on their project idea, how to present themselves to the judges, and their code

Assisted The Lego Explorers (FLL Explore) with starting off their season. We shared our robot to inspire them to continue with FIRST.

Met with CyberChaos (FTC) to help them incorporate RoadRunner, and debug problems in their code.

Met with Techno-Logic (FTC) to help them improve their hanging mechanism

Met with North Bethesda Phoenixes (FTC) to tell them about how we organize our work through the season

Connecting with the STEM Community

Connecting With STEM Professionals

We went to Beer n Bots; an event where STEM professionals displayed their creative innovations. While we were there, we:

Demoed our robot to the attendees & answered questions regarding our robot & FIRST
Got the contact information of people who were interested in learning more about FIRST
Connected with STEM professionals, such as the CEO of Arnold Packaging, Mick Arnold

STEM Tours!

Fire Protection Engineering

RPM Tech

Maryland Robotics Center

Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility

Advocacy

At the National Advocacy Conference(NAC), we:

Advocated for Title 4 funding in schools
Promoted FIRST to government officials
Connected with FIRST teams across the nation
Learned how to communicate and advocate effectively

Connecting with the FTC Commuity

Throughout the season, we have collaborated with 26 FTC teams for 11 outreach events. This helped us build our connections with the community, and helped make FIRST Chesapeake a more tight-knit community.

Competition Highlights

FIRST Championship

We had a great time in Texas at the World Championship this season! We were ranked 11 out of 64 teams in the Ochoa Division, leading to us being on the 7th place alliance with Team #18420 Metal Masters and Team #16290 Z.I.P Ties. We also won the 2nd place Motivate award in our division.

Maryland Tech Invitational

We had a great time at our first ever MTI this summer! We had so much fun competing among all the best teams in the world and are so grateful for the opportunity to attend.

We performed well in the qualifying matches, and received 2nd Place Keep It Simple and Straightforward (K.I.S.S.) award!