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What is outreach: Outreach is a team’s way of establishing their values for FIRST® and STEM throughout the community. This can involve activities like networking with professionals, visiting robotics labs nearby, coaching and mentoring other FIRST teams, volunteering and STEM-related activities and so much more. Why is outreach important? Outreach is important because it allows for your team to demonstrate how it made an impact on the STEM community, and spread FIRST values. A few FTC awards such as Connect, Motivate, and Inspire (the highest-ranked award) are all based on a team’s outreach. Outreach usually takes up 2-3 pages of the Engineering portfolio, which is usually 16 pages. Judges are looking for a diverse set of outreach events that have been done throughout the year, and demonstrate a clear impact and gracious professionalism. If your FTC team isn’t sure how to establish good outreach, here are some tips and tricks for where to find opportunities. How to establish outreach: 1. Cold email professionals and ask to be mentored
How to talk about outreach in the engineering portfolio: Outreach should be described in a specific way in the portfolio to be deemed impactful. A few strategies some teams have used:
- Allison A., Green Gang, FTC Team 24158 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greengangftc/ 
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Hi FIRST Ladies! We are FTC Team 14917 Asteria, based out of Marlborough School for Girls in Los Angeles, California. As we came together for the first time collectively this year, we’ve forged a shared identity, fusing together elements from our prior teams to propel us to success. So far this season, all of our team members have applied advanced Onshape skills to our collaborative robot CAD, utilized our expertise of shop tools like the ShopBot CNC to fabricate custom parts, and consistently iterated our subsystems, refining the construction of our physical robot. Within our community, we’ve hosted after school workshops with local schools, connected with STEM professionals around the world, and highlighted under-appreciated members of the FTC community, our volunteers, through an interview series.
However, none of this would be possible without our unique team structure which allows us to effectively collaborate, communicate, and execute our goals. As opposed to a sole captain, a popular choice amongst FTC teams, we have a leadership team. Composed of both a Team Captain and several Division Heads, each leader has a specific role or task to oversee, such as fabrication or social media. Our leadership team meets weekly, discussing and collaborating about the more niche aspects of Asteria. In addition, all twelve of our team members identify as women and gender minorities, creating a tight-knit community of inclusion and mutual respect. With this, we hope to serve as an example for FIRST teams across the globe, showing that gender identity and success are not mutually exclusive. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn more about our team, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @team14917 |
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