Boy Scout Outreach

   This past Saturday, our team went to the Boy Scout Camporee on Scott AFB to do some outreach fun. We were there from the morning to afternoon, and we had LOTS of fun teaching and sharing with the scouts. We went to share our "wisdom" and experience, and encourage them to join or start their own team. We ran two of our half accomplished missions, the blue quilts (which sadly, ended up not working that day, probably because we were outside) and the bowling/ smaller TV/ yellow hook.

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   Sierra, Bruce, Hazel and Coach G were on the morning shift. Beej, Sage, Badger, Poppy, Coach G, Coach K plus Sierra and Hazel again were on the shift in the afternoon. The scouts were thrilled to be able to come over, watch our missions, and interact with us. They really wanted to touch all the models and well, be Boy Scouts (helping us out, ask questions, etc.). We politely explained that the models and robot were not to be touched by anyone but the team (thankfully that just drove them to ask more questions and want more information).

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        There was also a rookie team there to share their experience with others and with us. We in return, helped them out with working their sensors correctly. This team had a few technical problems with their robot. There were 10 members on the team (not including the coaches) and the were all from a local public school. They are planning on going to the same tournament as we are, so we might see them there!

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           There was also an FRC team there (with some of their huge metal and plastic robots that use actual wires that they have to connect themselves!) FRC can be really big and expensive, so mostly high schools do it, because it's harder to fund and find space for, so local or homeschooling groups can't usually do it. We had the chance to tell them about FLL, and they even admitted they thought that our team had a harder job because we had to do a research project and build our robot, plus the fact that our challenge has to be pre-programmed, while FRC can control their robot via remote.

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Stay tuned for our next post!  ~Sierra, Bara, and Sage