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Outreach
We have continually reached out to our community, locally and in our region. We attend public events where there are large gatherings of multiple organizations to reach out and broadcast themselves to the community. We annually showcase our robot, hand out pamphlets and interact with those in attendance. This has allowed us to inform and spark interest in FIRST. We actively participate in these events which foster community fellowship and cooperation.
Some of these events include:
-Ewing’s Community Fest for the last 4 years
-National Night Out for the last 4 years
-Ewing’s 4th of July Parade for the last 4 years
-World Science Fair in New York City for the last 3 years
-Trenton Devils professional hockey game
-Every Ewing High School football game for the last 3 years
No matter the season, we continuously advance the FIRST message within our community.
Through our outreach, we have not only made our presence known in our local community, but within the FIRST community as well. Here are a few examples of our connections:
* New team sponsorship: This year we helped to foster the creation of FIRST Team 4061, The Sciborgs. One of their founding mentors spent an entire week during this build season, giving insights into the mechanical, electrical, and programming workings of a veteran team. We also offered our team handbook, insights on team building and sponsorship as well as many hours of phone calls and emails. We shipped them approximately 200 pounds of competition robot parts and supplies and hope that they have a successful rookie year.
* Driving Miss Daisy: We transported robots tools, and equipment for teams 25, 303, and 341 all the way to Indianapolis (close to 1500 miles round trip) in our team’s trailer. We shared a charter bus with 303 and 341 to the competition and had a very memorable trip.
* Team resource sharing: We help many other teams both local and internationally. In some cases we physically help by giving tools or other materials. At other times we welcome other teams by recommending hotel information, inviting them to our annual NJ social, helping with their chairman’s effort and Skyping with teams as far away as Brazil. We have worked with teams 25, 75, 303, 341, 1403, 2753, 4061, in order to build and strengthen our friendships within FIRST.
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