Covering the Strips - Red Partnership with Harris emphasize
mentors and year round support of the team and school, PLTW Slide 2
Partnership - Harris Slide 3 Covering the Strips - Black
Partnership with Community - Businesses contacted through patron
drive, community mentors, alumni, parents, connections to technical
resources like Van Bortel Machining. Slide 4 Partnership -
Community Slide 5 Covering the Strips - White Partnership with
School - from school board (hey the Superintendent came to FLR, by
the way!), to teachers to custodianstime, space to work,
recognition. We wear our school colors and reach nearly 400 new
students each year with the FIRST message. Slide 6 Partnership -
School Slide 7 Bringing Strips Together Point to Emphasize!
Speaking of teachers, one of our team teachers is on a two-year
special assignment with the Ministry of Education in the Bahamas,
weve helped her start two Lego teams there, and we are hoping to
develop the relationship even more. Slide 8 Forming the Base This
is the base of the orbit balls. All of those geometric shapes
remind us that our team and FIRST is based on Technology. (this is
our chance to push in the Engineering Inspiration ideas)
Engineering Method emphasized as our process for developing and
designing our robot. Slide 9 Forming the Base Mentors Lots of
mentors!. They graduated from some top engineering schools so they
can help us with choosing colleges that fit us best. They are from
many different engineering disciplines mechanical, electrical,
environmental, computer to name a few. They have firsthand
experience on the importance of integrating our efforts so all of
the pieces of our robot work together at the end. Slide 10 Slide 11
Point to Emphasize! Use of engineering notebooks! This year we
added a Wiki what does it do for us? (to make our notebook even
more functional and accessible to the different Subteams?) Our Wiki
is open to other teams now so that they can see our process for
designing and building our robot. Formal integration meetings. All
of the members of the team work on at least one technical aspect of
the robot. Slide 12 The Ring of Leadership The ring of leadership.
While there may be natural leaders, our team works to have all
students develop leadership skills. Point to Emphasize! Leadership
Boot Camp / Development. Student leaders do(personal story?) With
the guidance of the leadership, the team starts to form. Slide 13
Forming the Bowl The team is loosely formed and now we need to fill
it up! Team building / Fun Briefly show the photo of Calvin with
the bowl on his head? Activities that have a purpose while being
fun, Ice Skating, Egg Drop, Corn Maze Slide 14 Forming the Bowl
Community Service - Perspective: The students are expected to make
connections into the community through community service projects.
We have not developed one that we would call our own, but instead
try to impact existing organizations, organizations that mean
something to the students and mentors. We have favorites Lollypop
Farm, Intervol. New ones this year Atria, Blood Drive and Food
Basket delivery. Slide 15 Building the Ball As the strips are woven
and connected they strengthen the ball. In the same way we
strengthen our team and FIRST Publicity newsletters, media impact.
Slide 16 Building the Ball Rookie Team 2999 Slide 17 Building the
Ball Demos from big, Imagine RIT (with 17,000 people attending we
got to spread the word of FIRST to hundreds and are still featured
on their website.) to little Rotary Sunshine (a different impact),
others depending on the presenters (maybe Girl Scouts) a favorite
story? Slide 18 Demonstrations Slide 19 FLL Camps, mentoring and
Tournament support Slide 20 Completed Ball Our Events Rally and
Ruckus Free and open to public, helping teams Slide 21 Slide 22
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