[xraymypanda]

Within the robotics community my team does quite a bit of outreach, just not particularly much related to FIRST. For the past couple years, we've worked with a local elementary school to hold a workshop of sorts where a class of second graders comes to see a robot demo and play a game with VEX robots. In the fall we hold a Robotics Open House to showcase what we do during our annual VEX competition. This year we have expanded to hold workshops for area VEX teams. We recognized that here in LA, there are 3 or 4(that I can always think of) powerhouse VEX teams that win every competition. At the same time, there is a saturation of rookie and second-year teams due to the ease and availability of starting a VEX team. A local high school that was looking to start a team approached us last year for help. We opened our shop to them on a Thursday every two weeks to bring their robot and work or just to come and learn things from members of our team. This "workshop" expanded to include 4 high school VEX teams and 2 middle school VEX teams, 4 of which had robots ready to go in time for our annual competition. At our "workshops", we taught programming lessons, basic and advanced build practices, and also helped teams secure sponsorships and grants to ensure that their teams would outlast their rookie year. On a very loose definition of outreach, we host an annual VEX competition at our school for around 45 teams, our entire team volunteers to run the VEX LA Regional for 70 teams, and we held a small "last-chance" event this year for 30 teams which will be continued in the coming years.
For FRC, one of the aforementioned powerhouse VEX teams started an FRC team this year (FRC# 4563). We approached their leadership and offered our help if they would ever need it. They attended our "kickoff party" and later in the season approached us in need of motor controllers. The final bit of outreach for them was the lending of a few fuses as they realized they needed them to pass inspection before bagging their robot.
For our team, we find it easier to support VEX in our Outreach efforts and as such, also have little chance of a Chairman's award. In our area, the school district provides little support to teams, and sponsorships, while not rare, are a bit hard to come by so many rookie FRC teams are not sprouting due to the cost of running a team and necessity for a machine shop compared to VEX.
While awards serve as a nice benefit, our team does NOT do Outreach for the purpose of winning awards. Speaking for myself, as the Outreach Executive, I simply like helping people. I don't like the notion that a team will struggle simply because they don't have the opportunities that my team does. That partially contributes to my Outreach efforts and reasoning behind opening up our practice (VEX) field up to teams in the area that would like to use it. But I also just like helping people in everything I do.
I do not know if this is why other teams do Outreach, and I can only hope that my teammates can reaffirm my statements.