We recently got a call to make a 30-35 minute presentation for a grant we have applied for. The grant could make a third of our operating budget for this year so it is really important unless we want to take more money from the local businesses. The grant committee wants to know about the service and involvement we have in our community. Since we were rookies this year we’ve had little service time for our community. We thought we might take the angle of what other First teams have done for their communities and our potential for being productive in the same ways for our community.
I would like any teams help by telling me what you have done to give back to your community.
Don’t think my team will adopt your ideas just to get money. Any idea that we present to the committee will be pursued seriously. Also, we have done several community activities, we just feel we haven’t made the difference we need to part them from the dead guy’s money they control. I will leave our community activities and plans so far for other teams to consider.
Our robot made two laps at the annual Relay for Life.
Had a community open house
Robot and I-movie have made appearances at civic clubs for reasons other than money
Attended a school of the deaf for a presentation
Robot visits 1-8 grade students at catholic parochial school to promote science and technology
Team Went to a Royals game, ok that was for fun not for Community Service, oh well, GO Royals!!
Will be in fair parade, informational booth at fair, learning corner presentation at the fair
Local Roots Festival to promote s&t
Will be at a conference for education in our state
Plans pending for a appearance at a nearby mall to promote s&t
Hope you can help.
PS Presentation format ideas would also be appreciate. We are thinking of making an infomercial to show our involvement. Anything will help. Thanks Again.
For community service, clean a local train station or park, take a saturday and have kids come to school and teach them how to build simple robots out of legos (precursor to lego league), go to senior centers and help out (seniors seem to love having kids come, and it may not be the most fun for you, but it’ll definitely make their day).
remember, just because you’re a robot building team doesn’t mean everything has to be rooted in science and technology.
where can I start?
We helped out with the 4th of july celebration many times.
We had a mini-compitition with 3 other teams.
We are helping a family with a quadripelegic daughter with chores and we are going to design a device to help her work and talk.
Demo’s to schools, people, companies, etc…
Lego Leugue!
Our team does a bi-yearly road clean up (adoptaroad), a yearly river cleanup, helps out with lego league teams and is currently in the process of starting up a community science museum out of our renovated old powerhouse plant. hope that gives u some ideas!!
Explain how last season was your first and the myriad challenges that go with that distinction. Explain that you hadn’t seen the amazing accomplishments of many of the teams across the country, but having new knowledge of what they’ve accomplished, you’re excited to grow into that role.
Give specific examples of what other teams have done, locally and nationally. This thread is a great start.
Lay out a detailed list of goals for your future that include interactions within your community. Some can be short-term goals; demonstrations, dinners, etc. Others should be long term.
I think that it’d be important for you to clearly convey the momentum your team has toward being a successful competitor and a productive entity in your community, especially if you don’t have the experience behind you to prove what you can do.
We have done some things but i think we could work harder at it.
We work with lego teams all over the south side of Inidianapolis. I think there are going to be around 7 this year.
We worked with the township on something called the Bridge Project where underpriveleged famiies were given computers and we would show them how to operate them and connect to the internet.
We had broken wheelchairs donated to us, fixed them, and I beleive they were sent to a third world country.
That is all I can think of right now, I’m still a bit tired from IRI.