Shop Closed!
Mr. Kikugawa got sick, and took the day off to recover.
Shop Closed!
During the past week, we’ve been busy building and painting our two FLL tables. They will used in our Robotics STEM camp that is coming up this following week (Oct . 6-10) and reused for the Central District FIRST LEGO League Regional that will be held at our high school on November 8 at Mililani High School. Come join us then!
Orion paints the table edges. Space is limited, so we improvise.
Tables have been built!
Today we went to Punahou School to watch the FTC kickoff. The game revealed for this build season was Cascade Effect. Our team also had a presentation where we shared lessons that we learned during our rookie year, which was last year. We focused on two parts of FTC: the Engineering Notebook and the robot design process.
Other FTC teams were able to take a look at our Engineering Notebook to get ideas for formatting and organization.
We are super excited for this game, and can’t wait for the FTC Hawaii Championship, which will take place on December 13, 2014 at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. A shoutout to Mr. Aaron Dengler for coordinating this kickoff and Punahou for hosting it!
For more information on Cascade Effect, you can go to our webpage here . FTC Hawaii’s website can be found here .
Today, we went down to the Mililani Public Library to help out with the Summer Reading Program (SRP) kickoff from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The theme was “Touch a Truck,” where kids could explore trucks parked outside of the library and get a treat for registering. There was also a STEM booth inside, where children could get free printouts of science activities that demonstrated various concepts, ranging from capillary action to forces like friction and drag.
Charlie had fun demonstrating the Mini-Copter to children.
To learn more about the Summer Reading Program, go here .
Today we volunteered at the Institute for Human Services’ homeless shelter. We helped prepare 15 vertical gardens, each consisting of thirty plants each. We definitely had fun transferring plants and mulching them, it was quite earthy!
We also got to take a tour of their facility and visit their rooftop garden which also had an aquaponics section, maintained by residents who take their urban agriculture class.
IHS is an emergency shelter geared towards alleviating homelessness in Hawaii. They serve over 4,000 individuals per year, most of them being families and single parents.
On April 25, our team headed over to our local library to showcase our FRC and FTC robots as a part of the library’s annual STEM event. Children were able to drive our 2013 FTC robot around on a mini-field, and we brought a Sphero that younger kids could interact with through the use of an iPod. We also were able to talk to parents about philosophy behind FIRST and our upcoming summer STEM camp. We hope to do this again in the future; we all had a good time!
