On Saturday, January 11th, we held an engineering workshop for children grades 2 and up at East Kingston Library. We built roller coasters for rainbow ping pong balls out of paper straws! It was a very tough engineering challenge as they discovered that if two straws were too far apart, the ball would fall through, Read more about East Kingston Library[…]

On December 8th and 15th we hosted a soldering tutorial where we invited students at any level to come learn to solder in the design lab. We ordered kits that included a diagram of the end circuit but did not have a step by step walk through of soldering the circuit. We thought this would Read more about Soldering Workshop[…]

We partnered up with the Green Umbrella Learning Lab, a sandbox course on campus that has an aim of making the Phillips Exeter campus more eco-friendly. The aim of this course is to find a problem we would like to address with the hope that our solution making campus more eco friendly and then develop Read more about Green Umbrella Learning Lab[…]

Since we taught kids at YMCA about robotics last year, we established a new club dedicated to introducing LEGO Mindstorms to elementary school students. Every Wednesday, a small group of our team members commuted to the local YMCA to host a robotics program in conjunction with an existing after school program for elementary schoolers. Week Read more about ESSO Robotics at the YMCA[…]

Our school holds an annual fundraiser to help fight cancer and raise awareness about cancer. Various dorms and student groups have booths where they can help raise money. Our team had a booth at the event where we sold boxes and other cool things that Panda and Celine designed and laser-cut! People seemed to be Read more about Relay for Life[…]

Last year at FIRST Worlds in Detroit, several of our team members faced insensitive comments and experiences about their race and gender. Considering FIRST’s mission to “inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster Read more about Talking to the FIRST Director of DE&I[…]

Many kids who attended the UNH EPIC camp over the summer wanted to continue their exploration in robotics. The local elementary school only had limited team space and hours that did not work for many of the kids. So, we decided to start “STARK Industries”, FLL team number 48140. Due to the lack of a Read more about Hosting our own First Lego League Team[…]

Over the summer, our day student team members Vincent and Penny volunteered for the University of New Hampshire’s EPIC Program. This program allows elementary and middle school students to learn coding skills through LEGO Mindstorms and Arduino microcomputers. Vincent, the counseling manager for the program, hosted an interactive robot session in which he brought in Read more about Interactive Robot Demo, UNH EPIC Program[…]

Halfway through summer, Vincent was invited to serve as a panelist during the FIRST Global Conference. Members of this conference were able to learn more about our team’s FIRST experience through this question and answer session, moderated by Ms. Nancy Boyer. Vincent was also able to socialize with the other team representatives, and formed new Read more about FIRST Global Conference[…]

Computing Course – in Thailand! Over the summer, our outreach member, Panda, hosted a free Programming and Computer Science Theory summer course for over 80 students in Thailand. Through this two weeks summer session student ages 8-16 were able learn programming and create their own small projects. They were also able to attend Technology Seminars Read more about International Summer Programs![…]