2018-2019 Mt OAK CHILDREN'S CAMP - STEAM OUTREACH
The Irrational Engineers had a wonderful opportunity to share their love of STEM/STEAM with children at a children's camp in Bowie, MD during the summer of 2018. The kids were taught how to make tiny robots out of the heads of toothbrushes, adding vibrating motors to the tops and then decorating them. They learned about basic electrical circuits while having a really fun time.
2017-2018 OUTREACH - SHARING OUR LOVE OF STEM/STEAM
Robotics teams from MD, DC and VA came to RFK Stadium to participate in the Annual Robotics Outreach during a DC United Soccer game. The goal was to introduce & demonstrate robotics of many forms to children and their parents. All of the teams helped each other set up and run the outreach and many wonderful contacts were made with students, parents and potential sponsors.
THE Irrational engineers Give Back
The Irrational Engineers, is a FIRST FRC Rookie Robotics team in the Lanham/Bowie/Upper Marlboro area of Maryland. In addition to our goal of teaching STEM/STEAM skills to our team members we are also dedicated to developing a habit of "giving back" to our community. This is a core value of the FIRST organization and it a core value for all of us as well.
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The Irrational Engineers had an AMAZING experience serving our Veterans who who have served us over the years. On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 we were invited to serve our veterans as the Texas Roadhouse hosted a dinner in their honor. Our Robotics team members came and helped seat and serve the men and women veterans.
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Our goal in donating to the Bowie Inter-Faith Food Pantry is to help those less fortunate in our community. We are trying to encourage our team members to develop an understanding of the fact that there are others less fortunate than themselves living close by. We are trying to have our families start a HABIT of buying extra canned and dried food each week to donate to the food pantry.
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If you have an outreach project you would like our robotics team to help with please contact us at TheIrrationalEngineers@gmail.com
Sharing Our Team Vision with the Community
We have had several opportunities to share our Vision with the Community.
On January 19, 2016, Student Coach Caleb Schaeffer Presented to the Bowie City Council and Mayor G. Fred Robinson to introduce The Irrational Engineers and to request a Build Space. Bowie Blade News reporter John McNamara was impressed with Caleb's presentation and came and interviewed our team for a front page newspaper article. The online version of the article may be found HERE.
On February 2, 2016, Team Captain Chenelle Foster, Business Sub-Team Leader Logan Stevens and team member Jeriah Labbe presented the financial needs of Team 5830 to the Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR). As a result of this presentation the team received a generous sponsorship of $2,000. Here is a LINK to the whole presentation on our YouTube Channel.
On March 3, 2016, Student Coach Caleb Schaeffer presented The Irrational Engineers vision to a local Business Networking group, Quality Business Services. The results of this are not yet known.
On January 19, 2016, Student Coach Caleb Schaeffer Presented to the Bowie City Council and Mayor G. Fred Robinson to introduce The Irrational Engineers and to request a Build Space. Bowie Blade News reporter John McNamara was impressed with Caleb's presentation and came and interviewed our team for a front page newspaper article. The online version of the article may be found HERE.
On February 2, 2016, Team Captain Chenelle Foster, Business Sub-Team Leader Logan Stevens and team member Jeriah Labbe presented the financial needs of Team 5830 to the Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR). As a result of this presentation the team received a generous sponsorship of $2,000. Here is a LINK to the whole presentation on our YouTube Channel.
On March 3, 2016, Student Coach Caleb Schaeffer presented The Irrational Engineers vision to a local Business Networking group, Quality Business Services. The results of this are not yet known.