One of our biggest missions is to spread awareness and recognition for FIRST and inspire young kids to get involved in the robotics/STEM field at an early age! When conducting outreaches, we want to make sure we have a variety, and not just one type of outreach. We do this by splitting our events into 4 different categories: STEM, Non-STEM, Political, and Global.
STEM Outreach
Our 2025 Summer Workshop
We hosted a 4-hour intensive workshop geared to grades 3-6. In the workshop, we led kids through the FTC experience and taught fun and engaging robotics lessons about building, CAD, programming, and more! The workshop included multiple activities to offer a fun and interactive way of learning.
Scrimmages
Hosted and attended scrimmages to test our robot, refine strategy, and learn from friendly competition with other teams.
Fort Bend Library
Went to the Fort Bend Library to show our robot to kids and spark their enthusiasm for robotics. We also let them drive the robot to get them a feel of how FTC works.
CCFFN
Set up a booth at CCFFN - a local community carnival - to engage kids and inspire them into STEM using our robot and showing them how unlocking your imaginations can lead to amazing products!
Telica
Set up a booth at Telica - a local cultural event - to explain what FIRST is and how they can be involved in what FIRST has to offer. We also demonstrated our robot and let kids that were curious to drive the robot.
Political Outreach
Meet the Mayor
Hosted a booth at the "Party at the Plaza" event - a city operated event - where we introduced families to the mission of FIRST and shared ways they could get involved. We also had the opportunity to demonstrate our robot and speak with the Mayor of Sugar Land.
Tony Flores
Set up a meeting with Tony Flores (Chief of staff for Congressman Dr. Lalani) to advocate for more awareness to FIRST and possible government funding for all community FTC teams.
Madison Yandell
Presented to the State Budget Advisor, Madison Yandell to advocate on behalf of FTC community teams to receive some sort of government or central funding.
Judge Sonia Rash
Met with Fort Bend Judge Sonia Rash to ask about spreading awareness about FIRST and robotics.
Global Outreach
Desire Orphanage
Visited HIV+ boys in an orphanage in India and inspired them to get involved with FIRST robotics.
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Get in touch with us at robophantoms@gmail.com