Community - LAUNCH TEAM 6352

  Building a community with robotics allows for individuals with a passion for STEAM to learn more about how to contribute to the world of innovation in a new light. Participating in a community like FIRST, with all of its different programs, allows for people of all ages to learn more and look at the world through a lens made up of the FIRST Core Values. These values include discovery, innovation, impact, inclusion, teamwork, and fun! These are what helps FIRST robotics teams to shine when they proceed on their journeys of learning about STEAM and how it can help us both in the present and in the future. This helps build a community which allows for individuals from different backgrounds to work and also learn together. The impact that FIRST has had on the world, inspiring many FIRST robotics teams to do their own outreach and share robotics to their community, improving other communities surrounding them as well.

An example of this impact is our team, LAUNCH TEAM 6352, a community-based non-profit robotics team in Surprise, Arizona. We have been able to maintain a long lasting impact for robotics in Arizona starting from Surprise and spreading from there. We have been able to grow a presence of STEM in our city of Surprise and across the West Valley, which previously had very little engagement in STEM. We have focused our outreach to communities with limited access to STEM so that they can learn and spread it further from there. We have also begun a new chapter for our outreach by spreading STEM across the country and internationally! By helping spread STEM to communities in and out of our vicinity we can help create a lasting effect that can allow for new groups of people with a common interest in robotics to form across the world! With new communities emerging from the use of robotics it can be seen as a new step for the world to take in to achieve the common goal of solving problems like climate change on our planet. FIRST has also been able to change the mindset for the millions of students participating in their programs, providing the chance for them to share their ideas and solutions to solve the problems present in our world.

By building communities around robotics or robotics around communities, it is possible to create a new way for people to look at the world and the impact that it can create is something that is substantial in that it can stay for years to come through the effect created from one single team spreading STEM to their community and those inspired by that impact can spread more from there, a never ending cycle.

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