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Power Up Your Team! Team Toolkit provides three configurable tools for team management and competition support, designed for adaptability rather than plug-and-play use. Check out our team demos: – <Dashboard>: Tracks team hours and keeps members informed with real-time updates.– <Scouting>: A webapp for collecting scouting data, seamlessly connecting to Google Sheets for analysis.– Brickbotics …
Ready, Set, Speak! is a website designed to enhance communication and comprehension skills for children on the autism spectrum or with apraxia. Utilizing applied behavior analysis and verbal imitation, it offers tailored activities to support speech development in a structured, engaging environment. Check it out: Ready, Set, Speak!› What is Ready, Set, Speak? Ready, Set, Speak! is …
FRC’s Ultimate Team Hub! FRC teams, meet FRTree—the social platform built for you. It’s all about connection with an easy, info-first layout and customizable features for team admins. We hope our product will induce collaboration and communication between teams, which is one of the FIRST® core values we find so important. The features we add …
Study Smarter, Not Harder! ACE-IT, created by The Pascack Pi-oneers [FRC Team 1676], is a free alternative to paid online study tools. Featuring a Kanban Board for card creation and a suite of interactive games, ACE-IT makes studying collaborative, convenient, and fun. It helps students boost memory, spelling, and vocabulary, turning exam prep into an …
To inspire the next generation of STEAM heroes, the books began to be sent internationally. During their two visits to the Tomorrow Children’s Institute at the Hackensack University Medical Center, the Pi-oneers demonstrated the robot and read their children’s book, Lily the Learner. At the first visit, the Pi-oneers met a young girl named Victoria …
The Pascack Pi-oneers consistently look for new methods to spread the message of FIRST and STEAM. This year they created STEM Night Out, an event where they taught children to create their own solar night light by using important skills such as soldering, wiring a circuit board, the principles of solar power, basic astronomy, teamwork, …
To raise awareness for National Robotics Week, the Pi-oneers created a STEM Heroes display for both high school libraries as well as a featured exhibit at the Hillsdale Library. Included in the displays were books about each hero, videos, movies and other information about Team 1676 and FIRST Robotics. The featured heroes include those whom …
Team 1676 partnered with Team 3142 at the NJ State Fair to demonstrate robots and meet with Congressman Garrett and also to promote Academic Varsity letter status for teams in FIRST.
In June, team representatives attended the FIRST National Advocacy Conference (NAC) hosted by FRC Team 27, RUSH, in Washington, D.C.. They spoke with governors, congressmen and senators to form valuable relationships with their government officials and advocate for STEAM education legislation. Other items discussed at NAC included the positive effect of FIRST on school districts …
In 2013, the team wrote and illustrated a children’s book titled Lily the Learner, which tells the story of a young girl who learns about women in STEAM careers. The team has published Lily the Learner and it is now being sold on the Google Play Store. They have translated the book into nine foreign …