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EVENTS
5024 aims to be a part of and bring STEAM to our community.
We consistently promote STEAM within our school, in the local London area, and to worldwide online audiences.
Team 5024 volunteers with our community partner, the London Children’s Museum, participating in a multitude of workshops to promote STEAM-based learning among our city’s youth population, finding fun ways to introduce these ideas to children. This year, we hosted a five-day camp over the summer. Through this camp, students of differing backgrounds were able to experience robotics first hand, many for the first time. Children were introduced to coding and engineering and were able to learn through play. We saw young minds become passionate and enamoured with FIRST and STEAM.
STEAM Week is an outreach event that 5024 brought to HB Beal at the start of 2023. From Monday to Friday, we provided new STEAM-based activities to students who were willing to participate during lunch. Activities such as jumping origami frogs or dry ice launchers gave students opportunities to experience STEAM in a fun environment. We also set out battery collection throughout the weeks to give our students a way to dispose of used batteries safely. In total, we collected around 200lbs of batteries.
Our team annually creates a practice field at a local elementary school in our area. This field is available to all FRC teams under the Thames Valley District School Board, providing teams in our community tools to further their skills for upcoming competitions.
H.B. Beal’s Grade 8 Night is an opportunity for prospective students to visit their future secondary school. Through this event, our team is able to give students an introduction to the possibilities that STEAM and FIRST hold for them in the coming years, as well as provide interest in robotics and science.
Raider Robotics hosts exciting info sessions at elementary schools and other locations. We attended STEAM night at both Tecumseh Public School and at Oxbow Public School. Both events had approximately 75 kids in attendance.
Raider Robotics carried over our FIRST Lego Camp to Trafalgar Public School. We build excitement for FIRST and STEAM, inspiring students to become involved in robotics by providing weekly visits to this public school. Here, youth with little other access to science and technology programs are taught the importance of collaboration and problem-solving, as well as building and programming skills.
During Covid-19, our STEAM At Home project was launched to keep youth interested in academic learning, even when they were away from the classroom. On the official Raider Robotics social media platforms, we uploaded content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday where we demonstrate fun and interesting experiments for children to try with their parents, in an attempt to keep kids engaged with science and other interesting subjects.