Community Service

Initiated FRC teams, 4336 Ramagedon still competing. Retired teams Team 4832 Carencro High Crobots and Team 4353 David Thibodeaux High Krewe de Reauxbotics)

Phenomena was chosen to perform FRC BETA testing of software and hardware for 2018 competition.

Team 3616 was granted the chance to be involved in a cross disciplinary workshop at LUMCON in Cocodrie, LA. The students spent two days in Louisiana’s marshes and on the coast incorporating both robotics and marine biology. They built underwater robots to explore the environment and learn about endangered wetlands.

Assisted FLL teams either through tournaments, Fast Starts, help mentor, by email, phone, or in person

3577 Cardinal Robotics, Judice Middle School, Duson, LA

4071 Steel Eagles, Holy Savior Menard, Alexandria, LA

8218 Fatima Warriors, Our Lady of Fatima, Lafayette, LA

18381 Lego Landscape, North Vermillion Middle School, Maurice LA

25379 Saint Bots, St. Michael School, Crowley, LA

26595 Knight Robotics, Lafayette Christian Academy, Lafayette, LA

27733 CMS METS ROBO, Carencro Middle School, Carencro, LA

34236 City Constructors, Saint Martinville Jr. High School, St. Martinville, LA

37706 SMJH RoBrains, Saint Martinville Jr. High School, St. Martinville, LA

41546 Planet Changers, Saint Martinville Primary School, St. Martinville, LA

38119 Legeaux Gators, Ascension Episcopal School, Lafayette, LA

56596 Lafayette Community Team, Lafayette, LA

2012 First High School Robotics Course offered at Comeaux High School taught by our head mentor Mrs. Ranney who imitated the robotics program in our district. Students received hands-on experience with the Arduino Programming Competition, VEX competition, Urban city Challenge, underwater robotics, FIRST Tech Challenge, EV LEGO Mindstorms, drones etc.

2016 Initiated/Started one FTC Team number 11200 at Comeaux High

2016 Presentation for Frank’s International Robotics Day

2016 and presented for Robotics Day Participated with Lafayette Public’s Lafayette reads together program reading of the book “Spare Parts.” (250 people)

2017 Assisted FTC Team number 15284 from St. Thomas More High School our students went to their school and assisted and also assisted at their tournament

2017 Assisted FTC Team number 16771 and FTC Team number 16916 from St. Martinsville.

2017 Started an FLL team in Shreveport in an impoverished/underserved area.

2017 Obtained STEM Grants for Woodvale Elementary School , we built STEM items for the school purchased with the grant money.

2017 The Team was observed by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Professors, the Superintendent of Lafayette Parish School Systems and Science Supervisor for insights to write grants to have professional development for teachers and start robotics in other high schools and middle schools.

2017 Started in with Superintendent and other school officials and continues to add on with suggestions from team mentors Assisted Lafayette Parish School System to build a Robotics program at the W.D. Smith & Mary Baker Career Center that offers certifications in various areas. As per our team’s advice it now houses a permanent FRC field, CAD/CAM including HAAS mills, metal lathe, 3D printers, CNC routers, Vinyl cutter and computers. Also, we helped to develop the classes offered for Robotics, and Aviation/Drone programs.

2017 Hosted STEM in Motion (Number in attendance approximately 80 - most did not have money so we let them test the race cars anyway.)

2017 Participated in Lafourche STEM Fest, Lockport, Louisiana [approximately 400 in attendance.]

2017 Presentation for IEEE

2017 Presentation at the International Society of Automation (ISA), about 200 in attendance 2017. Demonstrated Robot at Steampunk/Maker’s Fair, more than 1,000 in attendance.

2017 FLL Qualifier in Shreveport, LA at McKinley School and held mini-camp for the elementary and middle school students.

2017 FLL EV3 LEGO Robot camp at Hope Extreme and donated an EV3 LEGO Robot Kit to Hope Extreme (Underprivileged after school tutoring program).

2018 formed an underwater robotics team at Comeaux High School.

2018 Hosted, trained volunteers and ran FLL Tournament (Hope Extreme, Houma, Louisiana) with 8 teams registered and approximately 115 people in attendance. After this tournament

2018 Donated money from Houma tournament to Hope Extreme, a non-profit that tutors over 100 students after school daily. (All proceeds for registration ($300) and concessions ($350) went to Hope Extreme and $1000 in addition.)

2018 A one day Summer In-service Workshop held at Comeaux for Teachers in the Lafayette Area - 18 teachers in attendance. The teachers received professional In-Service hours for attending and five EV3 LEGO Mindstorms. Project was funded through a Community Grant.

2018 Ran a Professional Teacher In-service Workshop for three days held at the W.D. & Mary Baker Career Center, 50 students, and 25 teachers registered with >150 spectators on the third day to view the competition. Project was funded through a Community Grant and teachers received five to ten VEX IQ robotic kits for their classroom.

2019 Assisted at FLL Qualifier (“Closest to the Coast”, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana) 13 teams registered with approximately 250 people in attendance

2019 Presentation at the Louisiana Educational Technology Consortium. This free event was sponsored by Fujitsu America, was led by educators sharing their experiences, challenges and successes with integrating technology into the K-12 environment [Number in attendance was close to 900.]

2019 Exhibition along with several other FIRST Robotics teams and Dean Kamen at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) - International Society of Board Experts (ISBE) Cable –Tec Expo, New Orleans. This Global conference “Raising the Bar for 50 years,” was an opportunity for industry leaders to connect and create opportunities to move their business forward in the cable and communications industry with a heavy emphasis on “Smart Cities” and automation, over 1,000 in attendance.

2019 Donated EV3 LEGO robots to school in Haiti with Lesson plans to implement.

2020 Visited Lanusse Minimation’s Studio to learn about building pneumatic puppets and was gifted with a kit to teach pneumatics.

2020 Printed and distributed for free surgical mask straps to essential workers, friends and family across the U.S. over 1200 straps

2020 When allowed we met as a team in person safety (wearing mask and keeping six feet distance)

2020 Global email blast and Facebook post the “FIRST at Home” program(online STEM resource that can be used at home or in a classroom) globally to teachers, friends and family. They were then asked to forward/share with as many people as possible, and fill out a google survey to say how they used the program and who it was useful.

2020 Exhibition/Presentation along with several other FIRST Robotics teams at the Louisiana Association of Teachers of Mathematics (LATM) and Louisiana Science Teachers Association (LSTA) State Conference, Baton Rouge, over 500 in attendance.

2020 Held a virtually distributed Global Coloring Contest for 5-6 year old's, and 7-8 year old's. Winners of each group won a Snap Circuit Kit.

2021 Held a virtually distributed Global Crazy S.T.E.A.M Contraption Contest, for Ages 9-12 only. Contestants were asked to design and build a contraption that performs a series of simple tasks through a complex process. Submissions include: a design drawing of the contraption; list and cost of items used not to exceed $20.00; Video of contraption only(no people) less than 15 seconds.

2021 Reviewed good practices in Zoom Meetings with our team

2021 Participated in FIRST Sponsored Webinar Training

2021 Team created and distributed for free over 200 S.T.E.A.M Activities to first, fifth, and eight graders in underserved schools.

2021 Virtual Math tournament

2021 Donated Diapers to a Women’s Shelter

2021 Initiated a STEM/Robotics library to loan out STEM and robotics equipment such as Arduino robots, EV LEGO kits, and other miscellaneous robot platforms

2021 Hosted a Virtual First Lego League Qualifying Tournament

2021 Assisted Virtually in the formation of a First Tech Challenge (FTC) team

2021 Hosted a presentation by The Hanger Clinic (Prosthetic Manufacturer)at our facility

2021 Hosted a presentation on Cube Satellites by The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s CAPE program

2021 Volunteered for FLL State Championship Virtually - Refereeing

2021 Virtual STEM workshop open to teachers and people in the community

2021 Workshop on public speaking, presentations, and good practices for FRC Team 4336

2011-2018 Host and facilitate teams at FLL Fast Start held at our facility. FLL teams are invited to our facility to get assistance in preparing for their competition challenge.

2011 - 2018 Demonstrated at various shopping malls, festivals, middle and high schools, universities, and engineering conferences

2011-2019 Assist at State FLL tournament, held in New Orleans, LA

2011-2019 Host Junior and Senior Science Fairs

2011-2019 Host and run FLL tournament at our facility, Lafayette, LA

2011 - 2019 Presentation at the Baton Rouge State Capitol Exhibition. Attended a senate session with Senator Hewitt who authored the legislation that, ”created the LaSTEM Advisory Council that is charged with the responsibility of creating, delivering and promoting STEM education programs and aligning those programs with industry and workforce needs...also establishes a STEM Education Fund to receive state dollars or private donations for the STEM education effort and requires the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to establish a STEM diploma endorsement for high achieving STEM students.”

2012-2018 Host STEM camps, supplying scholarships for hardship cases (approximately 8 each year)

2012-2019 Open House for students, parents, and local business professionals

2012-2019 Host Math tournaments

2015-2016 Attended the Governor’s Technology Awards Luncheon, [Number in attendance was about 150]

2015-2018 Volunteer at Festival International, over 10,000 in attendance

2016-2017 Presentation for the Lafayette Parish School Board

2017- 2018 Hosted and ran EV3 Summer Camps at our Facility [Two camps were hosted - summer of 2017 and 2018. In 2017 a free EV3 Summer Camp was held for middle school students – 19 attended.

2017-2019 Invited by the Louisiana Craft Guild to” face paint,” do crafts and allow children to view demonstrations and try out our robots at Festival Acadian de Creole, over 5,000 in attendance.

2018-2019 Host and run WWII Robotics State qualifier at the W.D Smith & Mary Baker Career Center, Lafayette, LA 10 teams registered (approximately 160 in attendance)

2018- 2019 Assisted at the state WWII Robotics State Tournament, held at the WWII Museum, New Orleans

2018-2019 Participated in STEM FEST along with several other FIRST Robotics teams, hosted by the Pelicans & SAINTS, New Orleans >1,000 reached.

2018-2019 Host and Ran a VEX IQ Qualifier at the W.D. Smith & Mary Baker Career Center. 20 VEX IQ teams registered, > 400 students and spectators in attendance.

2018-2019 Ran an FLL tournament held at the Lafayette Science Museum, 13 teams registered and over 800 students and spectators in attendance.

2018-2019 Host and Ran VEX Robotics Competition Qualifier at the W.D. Smith & Mary Baker Career Center, 15 VEX Robotics teams registered, > 300 students and spectators in attendance

2018-2019 Host and run Junior/ Senior Division Science and Engineering Fair at Ovey Comeaux High School (judged by team members) we hosted both the school and parish fair.

Senior division was judged by adults in the community and mentors; 3 schools registered, >200 students and spectators

The Junior Division was judged by students 8 schools registered, > 150 students and spectators

2018- 2019 Attended the “Robideaux Report” a Technology exposition hosted by the city of Lafayette’s Government (approximately 400 people)

2018-2019 STEM Camp: week-long camp with a 2:1 ratio of campers to student mentors: 25 students registered, > 100 spectators on the last day.

2019-2020 Assisted a Team 3616 alumni to encourage the Louisiana Math, Science, and Art School in Natchitoches, LA to continue and rebuild their FRC team.

2019-2021 Ran FLL Lafayette Qualifier at the W.D. Smith & Mary Baker Career Center, Lafayette, LA, 24 teams registered, team exhibited robots and over 500 students and spectators attended.

2019-2020 Ran FTC Qualifier Competition at the W.D Smith & Mary Baker Career Center

2019-2020 Host and Ran VEX IQ Qualifier at the W.D Smith and & Mary Baker Career Center, 18 VEX IQ Teams registered, > 350 students and spectators in attendance.

2019-2020 Exhibit at Math, Science and Technology Night at Broussard Middle School approximately 225 students and parents attend.

2011 to present - mentor and students assist with paperwork and certification for other schools in completing science fair projects (approximately 8 schools)

2011 to present - peer tutoring and mentor tutoring in STEM subjects

2011-2021 Assisted teachers on Science Fair Projects and helping to complete paperwork and certification by conducting Workshops, by email, and by phone

2013 - 2020 Assist teacher mentors for FLL, FTC, and VEX on technical questions, rule related questions, and grant questions for teams in Lafayette Parish, New Iberia, St. Mary, and St. Landry Parish