Events

Connect night

Each year Woodland High school offers a community event named Connect night. This community event is a collaboration of the high school and its clubs to house a fun day of games food and friends. At each connect night, clubs host tables that give information about what they do, when they meet, and the reasons they do what they do.

The woodland Robotics host a table much like our competition table, with our banner, our robot, our portfolio, fun stickers and supplies, and much more!

Freshman orientation

Woodland High school hosts a yearly freshman orientation the week before school starts so incoming students already know where their classes are, and the basics of their teachers. All clubs of the school set up tables in the cafeteria for after the event when lunch is provided for these students. These table set up's help get new students to join clubs, such as robotics.

Our table

Like many of our outreach events, we include a lovely table. The difference in this table is we have a direct sign up sheet in which we get the names and emails of students who would like to try out our club!

Does it work?

The quick answer is yes! Our table at freshman orientation does actually work well. Each year we get at least 3-4 people to sign up, which while it does not seem like many people, at the beginning its a lot, as on average our team is 16 people. Through out the year we get another 4+ in which helps a lot. Lucky we lose right around the amount of students to graduation as we gain so our team stays around the same each year.

Instagram

As a FTC team we try and communicate with community and post about what we do. Being for both updates on our robot and competitive season, and what we are doing for and with our community such as our volunteer work.

Fall fest

Fall fest is a event that is held for the first weekend of October at our communities local pumpkin patch. This event is a gathering of 40+ local shops and vendors to set up small tables and sell and engage with community. Fall fest also has food trucks and small activities for people to come, eat, have fun, and browse shops

As a robotics team we have permission to set up a table along side all the vendors so we can engage with community and show what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. Making sure to include FIRST and its purpose to encourage community members to check it out and the youth to think about joining something in the STEM field.

Clark County fair

We went for 2 days with an FRC team to the Clark county fair. we talked to the community, had them drive and "race against a clock" and if they won they could get candy. worked with FRC to learn from each other designs and understand more about how the other program worked.

Pumpkin

The Patch

The patch is our communities local pumpkin patch, for the 2nd and 3rd weekend of october it opens to the public, but they always need more hands. So as a robotics team we take those weekends to send out our members to help where is needed, ranging from directing the flow of traffic, to taking tickets for the corn maze, or even running games such as pumpkin bowling.

__ running the corn maze booth

___ directing traffic

Mr woodland

Mr woodland is a newer event that our high school started in 2024. Mr Woodland in a way is like Connect night or freshman orientation with an area for clubs to have tables to show what they do, the key difference is that students and community don't get to meet teachers, but rather they watch a show where Mr Woodland candidates show their amazing talent in order to try and be crowned that years, Mr Woodland.

Father Daughter Ball

The Father Daughter Ball is not actually a school hosted event, rather it is a event run by a local church that is hosted in our school. Widely enough for us we did not have a table here, so instead of us showing who we are, we put in hard work to help clean and set up large wooden coat racks and other dance used items in collaboration with our local boy scouts!

Planters day

Planters day is a very community oriented event as it is completely run by our town community, not the school staff and groups. The Planters day committee allows for groups to set up tables to talk to people or vend whatever merchandise they have. While we are not a business or a group that's based in the community of the town, we still were able to talk to our veterans of the Planters day committee to set up a table.

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