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![…]

We invited other FIRST teams in New Hampshire to our school to present our ideas on Silicon Valley ethics and socialize! As a rookie team, we began the season with only a few connections to the FTC community, and this event was intended to fix that. We started by presenting about Silicon Valley Ethics, then, Read more about FTC Team Meetup![…]

We’ve developed a website with all the common COTS parts a team can legally buy and use in FIRST Tech Challenge. Although we don’t limit our selection to the very best, this is a great place for rookie teams to have an overview of all possible parts so that they may select the items best Read more about FTC Parts Shop[…]

We presented to Exeter Computing Club about the roles of historic racism and sexism in machine learning. As our team, and Exeter as a whole, is very inclusive and welcoming, this was an important issue for us to address to the community. Because of the history of racism and sexism in determining candidates for jobs Read more about Exeter Computing Club[…]