Middle School Robotics Club Meeting
Back in July, we did a presentation for the principal of our old middle school (along with other principals from the district). We were happy to hear a couple months …
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RES-Q Eagan Qualifier
We got up bright and early on a Saturday morning to head to Eagan High School for our first tournament of the 2015-2016 RES-Q season. The night before, we had …
Magenic Demo 2015
As we have for the past several years, we woke up early one morning to drive to Magenic and set up this year’s demo. Magenic has been a sponsor since …
October Twitter Chat
A few weeks before the event itself, the official FTC Twitter account tweeted asking for FTC teams who had been in FLL. We sent them an email and were invited …
GOFIRST FTC Workshop presentation
This year, we had the opportunity to give a presentation about branding for the first-ever GOFIRST FTC workshop. The mission of this event was to teach younger teams about some …
Girl Time at The Works museum
Several years ago, we had a demo at a children’s STEM museum called The Works. The Works invited us back this year to demo during their Girl Time event, which …
FTC Kickoff Presentation
When we were asked to present at this year’s FTC Kickoff, we were very excited. At our first kickoff last year, we learned a lot that we could apply later …
FLL Island Lake Coaches’ Orientation
We were invited by our own coach (who hosts the Island Lake Elementary FLL Coaches’ Orientations every year) to present about the three judged parts of FLL and the things …
FLL & FTC Info Nights
We’ve done many demos with our robot at our local library this summer. During these demos, we’ve seen a lot of public interest in FIRST from both young students and …