The 2019-2020 year was eventful for Saints Robotics because we had one of the biggest teams in club history, with a new leadership, incoming members, as well as the returning members from previous years. Because we had access to the same location for our club from last year, we didn’t need to prepare a new space, allowing us to get an early head start in the season.
We have been hosting outreach events in elementary schools about once a month, with an overarching goal to get young elementary schoolers excited in STEAM ideologies and techniques. Alongside this endeavor, we also planned many fundraising events to raise money. In this fashion, we also aimed to give back to the wonderful community who helped us be who we are today. The robot cart and T-Shirt Cannon are two examples of projects that we have continued to work on and perfect, and we have used both in our outreach events as engaging models to connect with our audiences.
Additionally, our proximity to school allowed us to better connect with our school. We managed to recruit more members from our school through outreach and also strengthened our relations with the school public through interactive activities such as launching T-Shirts into the crowd during school assemblies (using our T-Shirt cannon) and providing everyone with a heavily discounted breakfast at AppleBee’s.
Saints Robotics also participated in Peak performance and was on the winning alliance at the Girls Generation competition! We were looking forward to the competitions but only had the opportunity to attend Glacier Peak with R2Tree2 before the COVID pandemic started.