We participated in a community town event to spread interest stem and inspire the people in our community.

We mapped out an idea for an event around the theme of transportation. In order to spread STEM among kids, we wanted to make it accessible to all ages. We chose three unique simple STEM transportation projects to show kids how to build; these included a paper airplane, a catapult, and a parachute. We got in contact with another Sharon-based team called the “Tech Tigers”. We started off by showing them how to make different types of paper airplanes. Then we showed them how to make simple catapults and simple parachutes. After making their own vehicle, each time they raced them and whoever got the furthest got candy. In the end, we demoed our robot to the kids and they all were very excited to see it move.

This was a great experience and a lot of the kids and parents who saw our robot said they were interested in FLL and FTC. The Challenging Cheetahs hosted a great event, and I think we did a good job presenting our robot and explaining how it worked. We would all be interested in participating in an event like this in the future, and this event was a cool example for us of something we could do in the future.

We hosted a series of robotics-themed game shows. We based our games on family favorites like Family Feud, Jeopardy, and Skribbl.io. The goal of this event is to have fun as a First Robotics Community.