The 2020-2021 year, despite being all online, still started strong. Our team was able to connect and work together on robotics through Google Meet. We added a new subteam to our leadership structure, the Competition subteam, to help our team keep track of all the awards possible at competition to further our efficiency. We further organized the Communications and Engineering sides of the team by adapting different focuses for them. For example, instead of building the robot this year, Engineering has been largely focused on Computer Aided Design. For our Communications sub team, a change in leadership was implemented to help utilize skills to best fit the circumstances of the pandemic. The club has received a smaller wave of recruits in its online setting. It was harder to receive more recruits due to the pandemic.
Even while being restricted to an all-online environment, our team has been very successful in reaching out to the community. The Imagery subteam has set up a podcast and connected with other FRC teams, the Bellevue Alliance, and even Kevin Ross. It releases biweekly to online platforms. Our team also modified our traditional SERC summer camp to an online SOLE, Saints Online Learning Experience. Members taught elementary school students the foundations of programming through Scratch in this two-week camp. SOLE was one example of how we still maintained connections with students in our school district. The team has also maintained connections with local businesses in the area by starting early on their letter-writing campaign. We attended the Game Design Challenge and got the Concept Award. At the competition, we received the Regional Chairman’s Award and FIRST Dean’s List Finalist Award. Our robot was named R2Tree2.