Outreach
NCSSM is a two-year school — half our team turns over every year. That makes passing knowledge on a survival skill, and we practise it well beyond our own roster.
FLL 71079 · Greensboro, NC
We started an FLL team from nothing — found a coach, interviewed members, ran parent info nights, ordered sets, and mentored them from basic Spike code to competition-ready programs. They competed at the Cannon High School qualifier.
Museum of Life & Science
We demonstrate the robot to classes of twenty young students, explain the mechanisms, and let them drive it through interactive games. The questions kept coming, so we now host monthly sessions.
Brazil · Romania
We reached out to ParaTech (#9302) in Brazil and BraveBots (#19141) and Brute Force (#22491) in Romania over Instagram, then ran introductions, design reviews, and programming exchanges after the five-week scrimmage.
with the ZebraCorns, FRC 900
On FRC Kickoff day we co-hosted an open house for students, prospective FIRST members, and families — we let people drive our robot and presented on how to get into FTC.
Family STEM event
We presented the robot and our season to local families, connected students with FIRST sign-ups, and found heavy interest in a one-to-two week technical skills summer camp.
Bull City FLL · Raleigh Qualifier
We judged at the Bull City FLL Scrimmage and worked the 3rd Southeast Raleigh qualifier as pit runners, judging queuers, field attendants, and field resetters.
Sustainability
Half the team graduates every year. These are the systems that keep what we know from leaving with them.
We run a booth at the NCSSM club fair with live robot demos, recruit through Instagram and LinkedIn, collect interest through a sign-up form, and interview every applicant. Members of any experience level are welcome — this season brought in ten.
At the Ri5W scrimmage our seniors step back. New members design, build, and program a robot end to end while seniors mentor with guidance rather than answers. Our last Ri5W bot placed 5th in qualification matches, and its stick transfer became V1 of our States robot.
Detailed documentation carries what we know through each year's turnover. New members train in CAD, programming, and outreach, earn NCSSM Fabrication Lab certification, and get hands-on ownership of real decisions.
Support from NCSSM, our mentors, and foundation grants, including the Gene Haas Foundation, funds the program. We spend it carefully so the team stays strong year after year.
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