Team Outreach

 Within our team, we consider outreach to be one of the main aspects and priorities of robotics. We intend to spread STEM within and outside our community in different ways to inspire those of all ages. These outreach events not only include doing STEAM-related activities but uplifting the community through donations, and events. Throughout the year we have had various outreach events such as FTC Coach Workshops, FTC Middle School Workshops, First Lego League Robocom 9.0, and International STEM events. We currently have about 292 hours of outreach completed and 1,000+ followers on all social media combined.

Goals

Host more international outreach events

Conduct 300 hours of outreach

Establish more partnerships within the community

Expand social media influence

Influence the younger generation to join FIRST Robotics

We plan to achieve these goals by collaborating with more organizations, creating a greater social media presence, and participating in all possible events to share STEM with our community. 

India

In-Person

• We held events at 3 schools, with 2 sessions in each school. Each session held about 300 kids from grades 3rd-5th & 6th-9th. In total reaching about 1800 kids. The activities they participated in exposed them to and grew their interest in STEAM.

• 3rd-5th grade participants designed and created their own floatation device with materials we provided. Participants also collaborated to play mini-games with VEX Robots.

• 6th-9th grade participants learned Newton's 3 Laws of Motion by determining how fast a balloon moves on a string. They also learned the components, mechanics, and software of the basic robots they created.

Zoom Meetings

• We continued hosting Zoom meetings with 4 schools over the season, leading appropriate activities for the different grade levels of participating students.

• We completed one STEAM activity in each zoom session lasting from 1 1/2 - 2 hours.

Community Organizations

Southwest Hindu Temple

• We continued our partnership of now 4 years.

• Held events every month with one large, interactive STEAM activity per session.

Boys and Girls Club

• We held workshops with students in grades 3rd-5th.

• Conducted STEAM-based activities for the participants in multiple one-hour sessions.

Girl Scouts

• We held events with girl scouts in grades 3rd-5th.

• Conducted STEAM-based activities for the participants in multiple one-hour sessions.

School

Synergi Bridge Camp

• We prepared the incoming Synergi4 class for their high school careers.

• Promoted STEM and robotics with various activities.

Escontrias

• We partnered with Synergi4 and HOSA to lead STEM activities with the elementary students at the Escontrias Steam Academy.

Father-Son Conference

• A few of our members and some from our sister team hosted an activity for the annual Father-Son Conference.

• The activity had elements of programming and pseudocode.

MHS Library

• Clubs from our feeder middle schools came to the MHS Literacy Night where we hosted a booth for students to control a VEX robot and learn about robotics.

Winter Fair

• We worked a booth at the annual Winter Fair hosted by the Synergi4 leadership team.

Middle School Tours

• MHS feeder schools came to take a tour of Montwood High School, and our leadership gave a presentation and demonstration of our robots.

Weekly Stem Facts

• Every Monday, our team historian posts a fun-filled fact about STEM on the 5470 Instagram story.

Camp Ace

• A 5 day camp aimed at teaching basics of Arduinos and Programming

Donations

El Paso Children's Hospital

• 3rd year hosting a donation drive for the hospital.

• Christmas Toy Drive during the month of December.

• We held an Easter drive collecting candy, coloring books/crayons, eggs, baskets, and stuffed animals to give to the kids during the month of March.

Thanksgiving Drive

• We donated to the school's thanksgiving drive for the school security officers, cafeteria cooks, and janitors.

Kickball Charity Tournament

• We competed in an end-of-year event hosted by our school's student council, where the school's organizations and athletics teams competed in a kickball tournament. The winner would choose what non-profit organization the money won would go to.

Feminine Hygiene Product Donation

• Donated $100 to our school's student council to buy feminine hygiene products for the students at our school to keep in the restrooms.

Community Events

The Outlet Shoppes at El Paso

• Held 2 events at the outlets where we shared information about our team, STEM, and offered two art and two robot activities.

• Art Activities: DIY Lava Lamps, Bubbly Paint

• Robot Activities: Sumobots, VEX Robots

• One event was back-2-school themed while the other was Christmas themed.

National Night Out

• An event hosted by Horizon City First Responders.

• Held a booth where we let people create their own lava lamps and control VEX robots.

Teentober

• An event hosted by the El Paso Library where different El Paso organizations held booths.

• We had a Binary Bracelet activity and VEX Robot activity.

St. Marks Kermes

• A 3-day festival event hosted by St. Marks Church.

• We had a cakewalk to raise money and allowed participants to control VEX robots.

Robocom 9.0 and FLL Championship

• We volunteered at RoboCom 9.0 where 48 of our members set up fields and became referees, video judges, cheer squad, and MCs.

• We volunteer at RoboCom every year to continue the pathway in STEAM it creates for kids in our community

Connections

El Paso Electric Meeting

• Three engineers from El Paso Electric came down to the robotics room to share some of their day-to-day and answer questions from our members.

Xavier Zapien

• One of our alumni currently working for NASA's JPL came down to spread some of his knowledge and support as we continue our season.

Indy-Autonomous Racing

• Our district invited us and other robotics teams across Texas to watch Indy-autonomous race cars from universities from different countries race without human control.

TEA Meeting

• We had the opportunity to talk to members from TEA about what we do and how that affects our school community.

News & SISD Interview

• Our district's PR department and CBS 4 news channel came down to the Montwood robotics room to interview our members and take pictures and videos of the exciting things we are up to.