Mighty Monkey Wrenches
Community Service

 

We are active in a number of long term community service projects and all team members participate in at least 10 hours of community service. This shows not only our dedication to the team but our connection to the community.

 
Some of these projects include: 

 

* Lion’s Club: Working with this organization we have helped to sort, clean, and repair thousands of eyeglasses and hearing aids which are shipped around the world in one of only five recycling centers in the country. We even hold eyeglass/hearing aid drives at competitions we attend.

 

* Local homeless shelter support: We hold food drives, sponsor birthday parties, hold game nights, and even hand make Christmas cards for every child that lives in our local shelter.

 

* Safety Town: A program by the Kiwanis club that teaches children the importance of rules and safety. Team members act as counselors and organizers, while the whole team repairs and upgrades the miniature buildings for the program. 

 

* Easter Seals Car Wash: This year we worked for the first time in conjunction with a local CVS Pharmacy to help raise funds for this worthy cause. We held this carwash right in front of Ewing High School.

 

* Dogs for the Deaf: This multi-year effort is aimed at collecting funds, donations of food and supplies to help support a program where service dogs are trained to aid the hard of hearing/Deaf.


 

What is FIRST?
      
FIRST
® stands for: 
      For
       Inspiration and
        Recognition of
         Science and
          Technology

Vision of FIRST
®  
“To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes.“ ~Dean Kamen

 

Our team embraces Dean Kamen’s vision. We are very passionate that any individual, disability or not, is able to explore the worlds of science and technology thus encouraging them to become our future scientists, engineers and technologists.

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Mission, Platform and Community Outreach
Team 2016 integrates FIRST
®  with the Deaf Community increasing Awareness in Deaf Schools.

Also Team 2016 participates in several community outreach activities that foster student development and serve the public. 

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Team Leadership
Team 2016 is set up in a hierarchy of individuals. The head of the team, the Team Captain, maintains order in the team, keeping an effective system of communication between the technical and business sides of the team. 

 

Subteams
Our team is composed of smaller subteams. Each subteam has a specific task be it involving the robot itself, or the whole team.

 

Mentors
Industry experts in specific fields of engineering and business devote time to guiding and supporting students through building robots. 

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2012 Season Team 2016