At the core of our mission, team members and mentors collaborate to inspire interest, knowledge, and awareness of diversity within STEAM, develop teamwork and leadership skills, and promote important FIRST values.
2024 Off-Season Goals
Our competition season has ended, as we did not advance to the state competition this year. However, we are still working during the off-season to develop our skills, create frameworks and systems, and learn lessons that will help us improve and get the best start possible for the next competition season. The goals we would like to complete before the 2024 kickoff include:
- Continuing to help our new members become familiar with FTC and grow their skills
- Creating libraries and systems to improve the integrity of our software
- Continuing to develop skills in design and assembly for our developers of CAD models and hardware
- Making sure to do things right while we have the time, prioritizing quality over speed – this will also help our team members appreciate the value of doing things well, a virtue that is sometimes lost even in professional environments
Our Outreach Opportunities
We have partnered with both our school district and local organizations to participate in and help set up multiple STEAM events, and we have performed successful food drives throughout multiple seasons. We also regularly help the Linn-Mar Robotics program host a series of robotics summer camps for younger students, which are the biggest fundraiser for the program and an exciting opportunity for the campers to learn about robotics and its applications in the real world, see the experiences that they can find in FIRST programs now or in the future, practice collaborating effectively as part of a team, and learning about the world of STEAM in general. Additionally, these camps brought in roughly $7,000 for the program during the summer of 2023, which was put towards their award-winning robots and event costs.
2023-24 Season Sponsors
We extend a huge Thank You to our sponsors, without whom our program could never operate at the capacity that it does. We further thank our mentors, supporters, and families for teaching us, supporting us, and giving us this wonderful opportunity to do what we love to do.
