In 2019, Jack's family reached out to us asking if we could build a chair for him. Jack was a 7 year old child with cerebral palsy, and our team wanted to help him and his family to have the opportunity to get a wheelchair. Though Wild Thing started out as a toy vehicle, over the year, we met with his family and built it according to his needs. It was truly one of the most heartwarming projects our team has done, and we are so happy we were able to apply robotics to a real person in our community and help change their life. 

In 2022-2023, our team reached out to another family with a child in need of a wheelchair. Her name is Baylor, and she has a rare spinal condition called spina bifida.  Over the year, Baylor came into our shop and we created another wheelchair, suited to her needs. Since the one we made for Jack was called Wild Thing, this one was called Wild Thing 2. Not only was our team so grateful to be able to apply robotics in real life in Wild Thing 1, but even more so that we were able to do it twice. 

In 2024-2025, our team learned of the challenges disabled children face when playing with toys. Many disabled children with motor skill issues could not play with toys they had to pinch or squeeze a certain part of them to work. Our team first rewired a single toy and then won a grant to expand our project. We also held a toy drive to gather even more toys to rewire. In total, we rewired and redistributed over 30 toys to disabled children in our community. 

Over the years, our team visits our feeder schools and holds assemblies to demonstrate robots and allow them to drive some of our smaller bots, such as minibots and bugbots. Our school visits allow people to not only be introduced to robotics and STEM, but also our team! If interested in what we do, they can join when they come into Hononegah. As well, if they are in elementary school, our team sponsors robotics teams in the area, to both inspire students around our community and introduce FIRST to those who don't know what it is. 

Our team was invited to participate in an Ice Hogs halftime game along with another FIRST robotics team, Winnovation. Not only did we shoot t-shirts during half-time, but we also had a table in the stadium during the actual game where we let people drive our bug bots and learn more about our team! 

Every year, our team is invited to a "manufacturing immersion night", held by our school for students interested in STEM. Our team has a table where we explain to passionate students what we do, how to join, and community projects we've done. It allowed students to be introduced to an activity they could do at school to learn more about STEM and robotics!