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TEAM #12499
HOW DO WE REACH OUT?
We love reaching out to our local community and making an impact on the community. Just recently in August 2018, we had a workshop at our local PQ library. Our team have also had the amazing opportunity to mentor a FLL team in our community. We have continued to reach out to others as we presented FIRST at the STEAM Maker Faire, participated in the FIRST Progression Project. We also have many social media accounts such as Instagram and Twitter.
Rancho Penasquitos Library Outreach Event
August 18, 2018
We had five stations. We had a CAD Station, driving, engineering notebook, programming, and FLL. Many people showed up and enjoyed it. At the CAD station we showed a presentation and let the kids request things to CAD. At programming, teleop and autonomous was discussed and we also let kids program an FTC robot chassis. At the driving station, we described the controls of the robot to the children and gave them a taste of how it was to drive our Relic Recovery robot. We had also set up a FLL station for younger children. Kids at this station learned about the three aspects of FLL- robot game, project, and core values. We brought in a poster, robot book, and project scrapbook to show what we did in past years. We also used the infrared controller to let the kids demo our robot. At the engineering notebook station we showed our Relic Recovery engineering book.
Maker Faire
Balboa Park, San Diego
October 6-7, 2018
The San Diego Maker Faire was an event at Balboa Park October 6-7, 2018.
Maker Faire is an award winning, family friendly event celebrating aspects of STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math), and more. Maker Faire has become a place for experiential marketing, debuting new technologies and inventions, and celebrating geekdom, and much more.
Every year there is a new theme, and this year, it was “people can do incredible things”.
It will highlight the people, places and organizations that make Southern California a great place to reside in, as well as work. "We are looking for creative people who want to share their energy and talents with others," says Maker Faire San Diego producer Cody Nelson. "We are inviting artists, musicians, engineers, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, students, teachers, businesspeople, comedians and creative people of all ages and backgrounds to inspire attendees with what we as humans can do."
October 14, 2018: Meeting with GA Engineer
In this meeting a General Atomics engineer named Chris Murphy gave us all sorts of good advice on how to engineer our robot and how to. make it easier to do things in the future He told us to make sure everything is easily accessible so it doesn’t take a long time to fix. He also told us we should do crash test to make sure our robot wouldn’t break or turn off when it hit things. He discussed the importance of good documentation in the engineering book.
December 22, 2018: DIII-D Tour
Wayne Solomon, the deputy detector of DIIID, gave us a tour of the DIIID fusion complex. We learned about how fusion is a clean source of energy and it doesn’t leave any radiation. The fuel is practically water so it is very inexpensive. We saw the model and noticed how everything was easily accessible. We saw all the equipment.
August 17, 2019 Rancho Penasquitos Public Library Outreach
In this event, our main objective was to spread out the knowledge of FIRST to the community. In order to publicize this event, we created flyers with information and pictures to attract children and parents to our exciting event. The flyer explained how we would introduce the basics of robotics, specifically related to FTC and FLL. During our outreach event, we set up five stations - CAD, driving, hardware, programming, and engineering notebook/teaching others about FLL. Many people showed up and participated in all the different activities. At the CAD station we showed a presentation and let the kids request things to draw in the CAD software. We also allowed the kids to try creating a 3D model. At the programming station, teleop and autonomous was discussed and we also let kids program an FTC robot chassis. We gave the kids two basic methods, Straighty which goes straight on a line and IMU turn which turns to a certain degree. At the driving station, we described the controls of the robot to the children and gave them a taste of how it was to drive our Rover Ruckus robot. We taught the kids how to program the robot in order to get around little obstacles such as gold hills. We also set up an FLL station for younger children. Kids at this station learned about the three aspects of FLL- robot game, project, and core values. We taught them why these three aspects are so important, and how FIRST isn’t about winning, but how it is focused on helping others to work together to solve problems. We brought in a poster, robot book, and project scrapbook to show what we did in past years. We also used the infrared controller to let the kids demo our FLL robot. At the engineering notebook station we showed our Relic Recovery engineering book. We also tp;d them how the engineering notebook was important in the way that it taught others how to record what happened. It also taught the kids different keyboard shortcuts, and how they can apply that to their digital writing skills. The kids enjoyed this experience.
Halloween Outreach Event October 31, 2019
On Halloween this year we decided to set up an event for the children who trick or treat. We made a candy launcher to shoot small pieces of candy out for children to get. Many people came and the children and their parents were very excited to see the launcher work. We let the trick or treaters try to catch the candy. We also had a station in which we gave the opportunity to learn about FIRST, FLL, and FTC. At this station we allowed the trick or treaters to view our robot. We also had our engineering notebook and robot out for the kids to look at. Many people came and had fun.
Harvest/Fall Festival November 2, 2019
We partnered up with Park Village Elementary School to teach about STEAM and FIRST to the community. Our main objective of the day was to introduce elementary school children to FIRST. We once again used our candy shooter, robot, minibot, and material from years past to share our love of STEAM and FIRST to others. We set up a station that allows the visitors to look and drive our robot. We explained the different projects we made in our years in FIRST, different aspects of FIRST, and explained to them how they could get involved in robotics at their school. We also explained how FIRST has affected who we are today. In doing so, we wanted the students to be able what it is like working in a group of people on a single project and how communication and inclusion is the key to solving the problems that a team might face.
ABLE Outreach Event February 1, 2020
We met with chemical engineer, George Manuhu from ABLE, to tell him about FIRST. In turn, he talked about his job as an engineer. When we asked what the most difficult part about engineering was, he said that communicating with everyone in a group is the hardest aspect of engineering since it is difficult for everyone to incorporate everyone’s strengths into a certain task. When we asked him about what he thought FIRST and FTC would prepare us for the engineering world, he responded with communication. He told us how if we learn how to work with different people at a younger age, we would be able to better communicate with others and learn about how to work with people’s strengths in each task. For our last question, we asked him how engineering has affected him as a person and he responded with how it has helped him overcome many obstacles in his life. Since engineering has forced him to communicate more, it has taught him how it isn’t only one person that has to solve a problem and it requires multiple people to do so.
(Below is a small excerpt from our interview with George Manuhu)
Q: Thank you for taking the time today to join us in today’s outreach. We’d like to ask you a few questions if you don’t mind.
George Manuhu: Sure, no problem.
Q: Thanks, okay then, How do you think the ideals of FTC and FIRST can be applied in real life?
George Manuhu: It teaches you how to communicate with in real life, and also teaches you how to adjust to sudden problems thrown in your way.
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Samsung Engineer Outreach Event February 8, 2020
During this event, our main objective of the event was to ask the integrated circuit design engineer from Samsung, Jeff Wu, questions about engineering and asked him to give us pointers to our team. We had a good discussion about PID control, and hope to implement PID in the future.
Q: Where do you work?
Jeff Wu: Now, I am an IC Designer for Samsung. My background is mechanical and electrical engineering.
Q:What is IC?
Jeff Wu: Integral Circuit is an electronic component, you build up some function. Using integrate that can make it very very small.
This is our FIRST team video. This commemorates our time in Houston during the World Championships. Enjoy!
This video commemorates 2017-2018 FTC season Relic Recovery, RIP. season and robot.
This video commemorates 2019-2020 FTC season Skystone.