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​Hyperion 9614 Meantored:

• FTC teams 16306, 14663, 14162, 16535, 16026, 18726, 18307

• FLL teams 49532, 46860, 45242, 50779, 48860, 51493, 51095

• FLL Explore teams 23653, 2612, 2318

With FLL/FLLE teams, we focus on providing guidance for strategy, hardware, software, and community outreach perspectives. We give teams advice on which missions/segments of the challenge they should focus on for upcoming tournaments based on the time and skills they are equipped with. As many of these teams are new to the FIRST program, we supply them with resources for engineering design and programming.

​We have partnered with the Alameda County Libraries to host 9-week Python and Java virtual camps for elementary and middle school students all over the Bay Area. Our goal is to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of coding and prepare them for participation in FIRST programs. We hope to use these programs to give the younger members of our community the opportunity to explore their interests in STEM outside of the classroom and we aim to foster an appreciation for robotics and FIRST in the process.

We mentor fellow FTC teams by providing guidance for both the hardware/design aspects of robots and the code/software segments. We are able to provide constant advice on developing team game strategy as well as robot improvement.

Our team organizes regular FIRST showcases at local libraries and schools where we invite FTC and FLL teams to present their robots to the community. In our most recent showcase, we invited over 6 FTC and FLL teams to display their projects, and had over one hundred community members attend.