Community Outreach

As a team, we are promoting ourselves and the message of FIRST by our initiative in GirlsFIRST. This includes the following:

-becoming involved in local events to show off our team and promote community involvement

Our Team's float in the Whitby Santa Clause Parade on December 6, 2008!
Thanks go to GM for the Hybrid Truck and to
Dante the Dragon for making a special appearance.

-hosting an FLL tournament and cheering on every single team during competition, including our own

Our Team at the Durham Regional FLL Tournament on November 22, 2008.
To read the news article about it, just click the picture.

-providing courses and workshops so that other students in our school community and beyond, such as the Brownies earning their Key to STEM badge, can have an equal experience working and experimenting in a math and science environment
-showing off our robot at school events such as chapel and our annual May Day ceremonies

Waldo III at our 2007 May Day Ceremonies.

-having the school dress up in red or white for "Waldo Day" to show their support for the team
-appearing in TV shows and radio to promote the Robotics experience

Our team members being interviewed for iChannel on December 11, 2008.

-creating a classroom specifically designed to help our team in building the robot
-promoting our mascot and a safer community with a ChildFind Kidcheck I.D. Session for kids
-participated in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine to raise awareness of world poverty and collected food and funds to help stop hunger in our community and internationally

Our Team Members during the 30 Hour Famine on April 3-4, 2009.

Want to get involved in your community?

If you want to spread the message of FIRST in your community, a great way is to help the local brownie troups earn their science badges. On our Resources Page, you can find lesson plans that can help you lead an activity session as well as a certificate you can personalize with your team and print out for the brownies to take home!