Interlake High School Saints Robotics Team

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Kevin K

Bellevue, WA

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The Problem

We are trying to solve the problem that students don't really know what they want to do when they go to college and what type of jobs they are interested in because often what is taught in a classroom doesn't seem to have any real-life impact. Through robotics, we are trying to expose students to as many new, real-life experiences as possible. By doing this we give a true meaning behind what students learn in class, and also teach them something new. Our club is more than about using math, science, and technology, we learn to work together under high stress level situations and also learn about leadership.

Plan of Action

The FIRST robotics Competition (FRC) is very expensive and with two teams participating in the VEX competition as well, our annual budget runs to be over 10,000 dollars. We participate in a lot of competitions and have many projects because our team consists of over 50 students. But by raising this money through, donations, sponsors, fundraisers, and grants we hope to be able to participate in these competitions. This year, with our team almost doubling, we have already started an off-season project to build an omni-car and we have started up our two VEX teams. In January we will be given the prompt for the FIRST robotics competition, which is when we will concentrate most of our power to building a successful FRC robot. Until then, the VEX teams will be competing in separate smaller regional competition. Our Public relations and Fund raising team will be continuously holding events to raise money, as well as talking to sponsors. The programming team will be learning to use the VEX programming system as well as becoming competent in the FRC programming language, so when January comes along, the programming team will be ready to create a successful robot.
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