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COMMUNITY SERVICE & OUTREACH

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BE THE GOAT
What We Have Done highlights of our season so far
  • We have at least one Community Service and Outreach Event per month
  • We acquired a space to start our Robotics and Innovation Center for youth in our community
  • We started our global initiative by attending FIRST GLOBAL in July we met teams from over 150 countries
  • We encouraged a home school team to start an FLL team and then we mentored them every Wednesday after school
  • We spoke about FIRST programs at an inner city Hackathon with major magazine coverage




What We Plan To Do (Initiatives)
  • We plan to continue to have at least one Community Service and Outreach Event per month
  • We are hosting FTC kickoff on January 20, 2017
  • We have signed up to volunteer at FIRST Global in 2017, in furtherance of our Global Initiatives




Impact: We have volunteered countless hours of Community Service & Outreach&still counting
Impact: We have spread the word about FIRST to Thousands of people, such that we have expanded into two states and now have team members from different towns in both Connecticut and New York.
Impact: we grew last year from 7 members to 13 members this season
Impact: From our Free summer camp 10 kids joined our FLLJR and FLL teams
Impact: We believe the creation of our youth robotics and innovation center will have a substantial impact in our community, for the sustainability of our organization and for future sponsorships and partnerships.


PREVIOUS EVENTS
Ways we believe the League of Extraordinary Roboticists, FTC Team 8699, have inspired their community to action delineated by a 🌟


2013-2014 - background info
When up and coming Co-Captain G. Edward (G) was in 6th grade, the 6th grade STEM class asked the teachers to have a Tech club, when the teachers asked what would they like to do in the Tech Club 90% of the students indicated they wanted to do LEGO Robotics. Since none of the teachers knew about LEGO Robotics, Coach Bell was asked would she be willing to come in after school to run the program. Coach Bell and FLL Co-captains G and Dre volunteered to teach LEGO Robotics and did so on some Monday's after school. That was the beginning of discussions...


2014-2015 - background info
Danbury opened up a new STEM and Global Studies Academy school


The League of Extraordinary Roboticists, FTC Team No. 8699 (the League) was launched and due to the prior relationship, the League was allowed to have its meetings at the new school in the open cafeteria for reduced rent. Students and teachers learned about the League by seeing team members build and program their robot for competition and through community outreach events sponsored and held by the League.


The League had its first Annual Pi Day Fundraising Event on the Ultimate Pi Day 3.14.15 beginning at 9:26 am and invited the entire community to attend. The event was held at Henry Abbot Technical School, which has an enormous Pi Symbol in front of it....the beginning of discussions...


🌟Robotics and Beyond in New Milford launches new FLL team, members of our FLL and FTC team and Assistant Coach help out


2015-2016
🌟Vex Robotics Team Started at New STEM Academy, Co-Captain G recruited as team member. He is now participating in FLL, FTC and Vex.

🌟Wooster School launches a new FLL team and requests assistance - of course we will.

🌟All 3 of Danbury public middle Schools come together to launch the school district's First Annual Pi Day event on Pi Day - the League and Danbury FLL team members participated by demonstrating their robots on their fields and discussed FIRST programs and robotics.
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The new STEM school decided to launch a robotics team, Co-Captain G was recruited since he was the only person that had prior robotics experience. In addition to participating on his FLL team, on the League, he was now also on the schools robotics team. He was the principal builder and driver of the teams robot. The school decided to compete in Vex primarily because Danbury High School competes in Vex,

2016 - 2017
We recruit more team members to join us.  The team receives the Connect and Inspire awards and receives an invitation to the World Festival in St. Louis.


And 2017 isn't over yet....🌟



Sincerely, The League of Extraordinary Roboticists, Team 8699


Agis Quod Age - Do Well Whatever You Do....
Aspire to be the G.O.A.T.
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LER 8699 (c) 2018
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