Monarch High School Robotics Team 1245

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Monarch High School RoboticsTeam 1245
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Outreach

• To Businesses
• Business presentation to Lijit Networks
• Presentation and Technical Paper at American
  Astronautical Society (AAS) Guidance and Control
  Conference
• To High School students
• Pep Assembly presentations
• Video Announcements
• To the Kiddies
• Summer Lego NXT workshops
• Hosting FLL Tournament
• 8th Grade Enrollment Night
• Mentoring Middle School Students

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AAS Conference

• We wrote a formal technical paper about our
  robot, created a display and presented to local
  and international companies about FIRST and its
  impact on our team
• Our fellow presenters included Lockheed Martin,
  Ball Aerospace, Cypress Technologies (from
  Belgium), MapleSoft (from Canada), and Satellite
  Services BV (from Britain)

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Business Presentation to Lijit

• We gained real-world experience! Our Project
  Management and Business leaders presented to
  professionals
• We spread the message of FIRST (promoting science
  and technology in schools) and gained a sponsor

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FLL Tournament

• Began in 2004 with 7 teams (we sponsored 4)
• Now it has grown to 29 teams (we sponsor 26)
• Our team members and mentors coordinated the
  event and guided the younger teams as judges and
  referees.

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Lego NXT Workshops

• Using the Lego NXT robotics kit, elementary and
  middle school students learn principals of
  mechanical construction, computer programming and
  sensor applications
• Experienced members of our high school team serve
  as mentors

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Mentoring

• Members of our FRC team volunteer to mentor the
  young engineers of our local FLL teams
• We showed the students how to build attachments
  for sensors, build a base for the robot, and act
  with gracious professionalism

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8th Grade Enrollment Night

• Our team invites prospective students and their
  parents into the machine shop and computer lab to
  watch the building of the robot
• It allows us to show aspects of the engineering
  process that occur behind the scenes

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Within our School

• We present our club at the Monarch High School
  Pep assemblies by showing off the robot that we
  built
• We spread the message of FIRST to our fellow high
  school students through video announcements every
  Thursday
• These are both long standing traditions at our
  school

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Grants Fundraising

• We sponsored all of the FRC, FLL, and JFLL teams
  in our school district (BVSD) for three years.
• With the economic downturn, we were worried about
  the state of our fellow BVSD teams.
• BVSD will have five teams competing at the
  Colorado Regional this year!

• The opportunities to fundraise through
  grant-writing has allowed us to gain experience
  in real-world practices

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Team Bonding

• Team Dinners (every night of build season)
• Mentor Appreciation Dinner
• Build Season!!!!! (we pretty much live together)

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Build Season

• We have a very thorough planning period
• We come together as a team
• We are proud of what we accomplished

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Acknowledgements

• Mentors
• Barry Anderson
• Liz Anderson
• David Clark
• David Hwang
• Hal Lunka
• Christian Parker
• Roger Perry
• Photos
• Courtesy of Noah Clark

• Sponsors
• American Astronautical Society (AAS)
• Ball Aerospace
• Boulder Valley Credit Union (BVCU)
• Colorado Plastics Products (CPP)
• Impact On Education
• International Council on Systems Engineering
  (INCOSE)
• Lijit Networks (lijit.com)