Code Con
(Reached 780+ People | Since 2022)
All math classes in the 8th grade attend a one-day event where they are offered different stations relating to computer science. Our robotics team hosts one of the stations and teaches the students about the team. At the end of each session, we invite students to launch and catch balls from the 2022 season robot. After starting Code Con, there was a notable increase in the amount of interested Freshmen joining our team.

COVE Lessons
(Reached 50+ People | Since 2023)
Our high school has a program, COVE, that serves students with developmental disabilities. To help spread STEM education to these students, we invited them to drive our robot and launch and catch pieces from our 2022 season robot. Additionally, we assisted the students with a hands-on learning session that showed them how to build a basic circuit, teaching them the principles of electrical engineering.

Girl Scouts Camp
(Reached 100+ People | Since 2023)
This past fall, SO BOTZ helped six Brownie and Junior Girl Scout troops earn their Robotics Programming Badges at our full-day Robotics Camp. We introduced them to programming and engineering with Spike Prime Robots.

Mentoring/Assisting Teams
(Reached 1160+ People | Since 2019)
In 2019, we started mentoring our middle school’s robotics team by answering questions and advising them on what they could improve. We also helped facilitate their in-house FLL competition. Additionally, we mentor FRC 7730. Through visits from both their members and our members, we have assisted and given suggestions to them in finding sponsorships, creating fundraisers, building their robot, team management, training and retaining membership, etc.

Online Computer Science Course
(In Progress)
Over the past year, one of our Software subteam members has been working on an online computer science course for grades 5-8 and students with the Kiwimbi Foundation. This offers younger kids in our district and students in Western Kenya the opportunity to get an introduction to computer science through a series of video tutorials and guided questions.

Robo Rally
(Reached 100+ People | Since 2023)
Starting last year, we began a practice event for all the FRC teams in the Hudson Valley region. This gave many teams the opportunity to test their robots with our mock field, collaborate, share ideas, and strategize for the upcoming game.

Robotics Camp
(Reached 200+ People | Since 2022)
For the past two years, we’ve contributed to our district’s STEAM Camp by hosting a robotics section. Over two weeks, we teach students from grades 6-8 how to build and program Pololu Romi robots, giving them an introduction to the libraries used to program FIRST Robotics Competition robots.

Scratch Lessons
(Reached 32+ People | Since 2022)
In 2022, SO BOTZ began a collaboration with the Kiwimbi foundation to help spread STEM education to communities in Western Kenya. By donating scratch workbooks and creating video lessons, our team helped expand the students’, at the Kiwimbi Community Center and Library, knowledge of Computer Science.

Software Academy
(Reached 12+ People | Since 2024)
Recently, we started a Software Academy to help other teams advance their programming skills. We held a zoom meeting with three teams and one prospective team, talking and walking them through the basics of programming a swerve drivetrain, working with command-based programming, and using a limelight.

STAGSS Kenyan Robotics Team
(Reached 20+ People | Since 2023)
In 2022, we began a collaboration with Kiwimbi International, which provides educational opportunities to communities in Western Kenya. Through bi-weekly virtual meetings and scratch workbooks donated by our team, we introduced computer science to students at St. Thomas Amagaro Girls Secondary School. After the success of these lessons, we helped form an all-girls robotics team, STAGSS, which competed in the Kenya Science Engineering Fair. We assisted them by maintaining a website of resources, creating video tutorials, and continuing to meet virtually. The STAGSS robotics team went on to eventually win their local, county, regional, and national competitions.