Hello, welcome to team 2359 RoboLobos.

 

This is the 10th year anniversary for our team, making us the oldest team from Edmond Oklahoma. The way that our team first started was from our coaches Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood wanting to give students the opportunity to have a hands on experience with engineering and the engineering process. They believed that the classroom did not fully demonstrate the engineering process and doing just book work was unrealistic in real life situations for engineering. The curriculum in the classrooms does not go over how to prototype or testing different ideas, and book work only shows a single way to work a problem and presenting a single answer. Where in a robotics team, students can apply what they have learned in the classroom to real life. Where students can learn that there is more than one way to solve a problem and multiple answers to fix it. It is just about the matter of going over your work and trying different processes to see what will work, is what students can take away from robotics.

We have been mentoring FLL teams for seven years. Just this previous year we had an all girl team that made it to state and won first place. Also within our community we host S.O.S., or Sciencing on Saturdays, for eight years. A program in our team mentoring children from 1st-5th grade about general sciences. Helping the next generation of children to further pursue math and science with a stronger passion and possibly want to join our team 2359.

As of fall of 2017 Edmond Santa Fe High School will be supporting a new curricular class in STEM. Which will be taught by our own personal coaches, Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood. Mr. Blackwood for multiple years has gone to the School Board and has asked permission to hold this class, and find out this year his request has finally been approved and now all Edmond public high schools will now hold STEM classes. For our team we also want further emphases on animation. So that more of our artist students can use their computer science knowledge in further practice within our team, making projects for competitions. One thing we have done in recent years is reach out to the other Edmond High school robotics teams, to assist one another with traveling and expenses to go to out of state regionals. We have also talked to the other teams about strategies for the current FRC games. In the future we would want to have more people join our robotics club, both students and mentors. So we can touch more people’s heart about our passion and drive for math and science, and the future of robotics.