Outreach

As a team, we love to do outreach and help in our community. Volunteering and connecting with our community is an enriching experience, and our team loves it! We are always looking for outreach opportunities to help others or spread STEM to younger kids. Some outreach we have done in the past include the program S.E.A.T (Senior's Electronics Assistance Team) that we created, Bridgeport Elementary's Space Night, and the Makerspace Festival. If you live near us, you might see us around sometimes!

Now, in quarantine, we've started some outreach on Discord. If you are a member of any FTC team, please join our FTC Discord game night! It was more active in the summer and is on a bit of a hiatus right now, but you can still click here to join! If you need any help with school, you can also join our tutoring server for grades 7-10. If you are part of an FTC team and are interested in helping tutor others with us, let us know by emailing us. Click here to join our discord for tutoring help!

Bridgeport Elementary School
Space Night is a community event. This was our second year participating and we invited another competitor team to join us in 2019.

In 2018, we started the SEAT (Seniors Electronics Assistance Team) program to help seniors with electronics.

2018-2019 we have participated in the College of the Canyons Makerspace Festival. We provided a demo of our robot and let others drive our robot.

Team Photo from Bridgeport Elementary School Space Night, team members standing with members from Robo Lions on field with pvc pipe walls, there is a whiteboard in the background

Ryan sits at a table with an elderly lady, he taps on a tablet with two phones laying near the tablet

Makerspace Festival demo - A young child, with his dad's help drives a small 4 wheel pushbot on the field

on a dark grey field, a robot with linears and a box attached to it, dumps a ball into a young girls hands while her brother watches

Back view, we see Cayden with an ipad mini helping an elderly lady with the device. Next to the tablet is a small cup of Starbucks coffee with a purse to the right of that. In the background of the image, we can see the team's coach and some more folding tables and chairs

A red table in front of a grey brick wall has chips and baked goods on it for a bake sale we did at the Makerspace Festival. On the red table, hanging on the front, is a Hermit Social Club Banner

Certificate of Recognition to the Hermit Social Club for our senior electronics assistance team.

In 2018 we volunteered with the Speak Easy bakery to sell pretzels for FeedSCV..

Three members stand in front of a black table with baked goods on it which they are helping to sell. Behind them is a TV with a $4 Burger and Blizzard ad

In 2019 we held a donation drive for Bridge to Home with help from Rio Norte Jr. High

Team members stand around a large cardboard box with a sign on it that reads,

We also volunteer with Big Sunday throughout the year because they always have something going on.

Two team members stand next to a volunteer sign wearing Big Sunday shirts

We were greeters and stewards of the city at the 2019 Castaic Lake Dragonboat race. We also volunteered for their annual Easter Egg Hunt.

team members stand around a chair with an umbrella, in the background is Castaic Lake

Two certificates of appreciation for volunteering at the dragon boating competition along with a medal

Here we worked with FeedLA County to help feed homeless Vets and those in need in 2017.

Two of our members stand with other volunteers around a table with a certificate of appreciation. Behind them is a large painting of some flowers with a gold coloured frame

We also have an ongoing program at the library where we host FLL (FIRST Lego League) workshops for younger kids that we started in 2019.

Team members stand behind group of young kids with a lego EV3 robot in front of them

We returned back to FLL to help judge at an FLL qualifying tournament in 2019.