Outreach
The Cometbots' mission is to get everyone excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. We put on presentations and demos to get people of all ages inspired!
2024 Outreach
We showed our robot off at the Youth Activities Fair.
We brought several robots to the Heritage Festival in South Boston, VA. Kids were able to drive one of our robots and see what we do on the robotics team.
2023 Outreach
We took our robots to the Heritage Festival in South Boston, VA. We shared about our 2023 robot and season, and had a demonstration robot for kids to drive around!
We will be at the Halifax County Fair.
We will be at the Career & Technical Education Showcase & Community Call to Action on October 19, 2023.
The Cometbots set up a display for the Halifax County Lights for Hope (Dec 8-10 and 15-16)
2019 - 2020 Outreach
Freshman Orientation (August 2019) The Cometbots had a table set up during the orientation event for the incoming freshman class of Halifax County High School.
Back to School Expo (August 2019) The Cometbots participated in the first and second annual Back 2 School Expo for Halifax County Public Schools. This event is open to all students to receive free school supplies. The Cometbots showed off our competition robot and also had a practice bot that other students were able to drive.
Harvest Festival (September 2019) We let members of the community drive one of our robots.
Kickoff event (January 2020) We are hosting a community event to give a tour of our shop and watch the revealing of this year's challenge live on twitch.
2018 - 2019 Outreach
Back 2 School Expo (August 2018)
DKG meeting (October 2018) The Delta Kappa Gamma society is comprised of former and current female educators. They were impressed by our presenters and expressed a lot of interest in our team.
Night of Innovation (January 2019) A portion of our team went to our middle school and set up a demonstration of our previous season’s robot. We also brought several smaller robots for the children to drive around, so they could see what robotics is from a hands on point of view.
Career and Technical Education Expo (February 2019) We demonstrate robots and try to get other high school students interested in career and technology education.
End of Year Bash (June 2019) The school system held a year-ending party for all of the students in Halifax County. The Cometbots provided robot demonstrations, a trivia game, and a stomp rocket crafting activity.
2017 - 2018 Outreach
Heritage Festival (May 2017) We demonstrated a robot that was able to pick up and throw a ball. Our team made a photo booth to give out souvenir pictures in exchange for a small donation.
Harvest Festival (September 30, 2017) Members of the Robotics team explained how to drive the robot and taught others how to steer. Children were given "Robot Driver's Licenses" for completing a task of driving the robot through an obstacle course created by our members. Children and adults in our community enjoyed learning about our robot and program.
Middle School visit (November 21, 2017) We visited the middle school Smart Lab and Lego Robotics classes on Tuesday, November 21st, 2017. Emmanuel, Nicholas, Armiche, and Gabby gave a presentation on our team and FIRST. Students also had a chance to drive one of our robots. (pictures below)
Touch a Truck (April 2018): about 100 people attended this event, watched our robot demonstration and even drove our practice robot.
Cub Scout meeting (April 2018): We spoke to one of our local Cub Scout Troops about safety and our season's robot, and allowed them to drive our mecanum robot.
Strawberry Fest (May 2018): As an annual event, during the start of the summer, our town puts on an event, to celebrate the harvest of fresh strawberries. We set up a booth where we answered questions about our robot, and demonstrated what we do using our 2018 competition Robot.
