OSU Football Coach Woody Hayes once said, "You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward." When one receives a generous act, they are often prompted to reciprocate the kindness, or “Pay It Forward.” FIRST regularly grants FRC team 3324, The Metrobots, opportunities to experience STEAM, making it our desire to give others similar opportunities by “STEAMing it Forward.”
Our Team
When a small group of students founded The Metrobots in 2010, we faced a lack of proper tools, mentors, funding, community support, and practice space. Additionally, as our team comprises students from Metro Early College High School, a STEM school composed of students from 27 different Central Ohio school districts, transportation became an issue. Despite such challenges, The Metrobots grew into a cohesive team full of ethnic and gender diversity. The residential variety among our members, while posing its own unique setbacks, increased our team’s cultural and ethnic diversity. Our …show more content…
For example, we taught 14 Energy Workshops at the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, teaching financially disadvantaged students about environmental science and physics. Our team also developed and maintained a nine-week engineering summer camp for underprivileged students at Millennium Community School. During the summer of 2016, we helped host a week-long summer program at Healthy Asian Youth to provide inner-city kids with STEM opportunities. Approximately 200 students attended the camp everyday where our team members taught them various STEM concepts ranging from sound and light waves and electrical circuits to simple kinematics by creating mini-catapults. We plan to continue spreading STEM to as many communities as we can reach; currently, we have planned FRC, FTC, FLL, and underwater robotics camps that will be run by Metrobots team members in conjunction with The PAST
Our Team
When a small group of students founded The Metrobots in 2010, we faced a lack of proper tools, mentors, funding, community support, and practice space. Additionally, as our team comprises students from Metro Early College High School, a STEM school composed of students from 27 different Central Ohio school districts, transportation became an issue. Despite such challenges, The Metrobots grew into a cohesive team full of ethnic and gender diversity. The residential variety among our members, while posing its own unique setbacks, increased our team’s cultural and ethnic diversity. Our …show more content…
For example, we taught 14 Energy Workshops at the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, teaching financially disadvantaged students about environmental science and physics. Our team also developed and maintained a nine-week engineering summer camp for underprivileged students at Millennium Community School. During the summer of 2016, we helped host a week-long summer program at Healthy Asian Youth to provide inner-city kids with STEM opportunities. Approximately 200 students attended the camp everyday where our team members taught them various STEM concepts ranging from sound and light waves and electrical circuits to simple kinematics by creating mini-catapults. We plan to continue spreading STEM to as many communities as we can reach; currently, we have planned FRC, FTC, FLL, and underwater robotics camps that will be run by Metrobots team members in conjunction with The PAST