By Anand Sharing and Teaching Kids at Outreach at FLL qualifier  “ Sharkfest ” 11/17  Prior to our Open House on 11/28 we took time out to attend and showcase our robot and our team at the Nov 17th FLL qualifier at Baker Middle School along with the Troy High Hammerheads at "Sharkfest".    We didn't know what to expect and we were so excited to see so much going on at the event, the FLL teams were competing and in between, they were coming into the cafeteria to explore a bunch of STEM activities that the Hammerheads prepared.   We also had a blast participating in some of the activities at the tables.  And, the FRC team was on the stage showing a super cool robot that threw a big bouncy ball that we got to catch and throwback.  It helped us see what the next step in First will be, FRC.   We had an FTC field set up by the Troy team that helped us show everyone all about "Smitty" and we fixed our wheels that day too - and...

By Anand Our goal for our Open House when we did our brainstorm and organized our Agenda for the night was for us to share what our team has learned over the past 8 weeks of doing FTC with others who might be interested in learning about Robotics.   We wanted to show them our Robot and give kids a chance to work our controllers and make him move.   We wanted to teach them about the different unique parts of our Robot, like our arm, our sweeper, and our basket design.   We wanted to also show them a little bit about block programming and give them hands-on experience with doing a simple program that they could modify.  We also taught the attendees about the differences between what an Autonomous vs. Teleop and how our team learned to successfully program "Smitty" to achieve our Rover Ruckus game goals.  We will be looking for at least 2 new team members to join our team and wanted to inspire other kids to join FTC community or school teams once they see...