Welcome to our page documenting several of our outreaches in 2016.
August 25, 2016
Creekside Intermediate School
We were happy to collaborate with the Dexbots FLL (FIRST Lego League) with a visit to Creekside. Learn more about the Dexbots on their website at dexbots-2016.blogspot.com.
2016 – Dreadbots work with the Dexter FLL team, the Dexbots.
2016 -The Dreadbots and Dexbots learn from each other.
2016 – The Dreadbots and Dexbots gather around the FLL arena.
June 2, 2016
Mill Creek Middle School
The Dreadbots visited Mill Creek on June 2, 2016 during lunch. The team showed off their robot’s capabilities. Students enjoyed catching balls thrown by the robot.
2016 – Sierra and Kathryn talk with a group of Mill Creek girls about robotics.
2016 – Clark gives a group of students an up close look at the robot and he answers their questions.
2016 – Cade, Clark and Kevin talk with a group of girls interested in learning more about our team.
2016 – Cade looks on as a group of girls get ready to catch a ball tossed by our robot.
2016 – Our robot took a trip outside to enjoy the sunshine with the students while Cade watches to keep everyone safe.
2016 – Mrs. Bronson walking off stage after playing ball with our robot.
2016 – Our robot tossing the ball to students eating lunch.
May 30, 2016
Dexter Memorial Day Parade
We had a fun day showing off our robot during the Dexter Memorial Day parade. We especially enjoyed crowd cheering and clapping for us along with the overheard comments from the crowd of:”Wow, did you see that?”, “It’s a robot!”, and “Can you believe the high school kids built that?!”.
2016 – Kevin and JoJo carry our Dreadbots sign during the Dexter Memorial Day parade. Photo credit: welovedexter.com
2016 – The Dreadbots showing their team spirit during the Dexter Memorial Day parade. Photo credit: welovedexter.com
2016 – Our robot getting ready to toss a ball during the parade. Photo credit: welovedexter.com
2016 -Our robot tossing a ball to one of our team members from our float. Photo credit: welovedexter.com
May 20-22, 2016
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
Tech Twilight at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum.
2016 – Duncan teaches a group of kids about how our robot works at the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum Tech Twilight event.
2016 – A preschooler places a ball on our robot’s sucker-punch with Sierra’s help.
2016 – Our sucker-punch is always a hit. Kids love to play catch with our robot.
2016 – A young lady eagerly plays catch with our robot at Tech Twilight.
2016 – Kids love our robot’s sucker-punch.
2016 – Kids love catching balls thrown by our robot.
2016 – Sierra shows off our robot to some eager young girls.
2016 – A boy places the ball on our robot while Sierra explains how our robot works to another boy.
2016 – Sierra demonstrates our robot’s ball tossing capabilities with a couple of kids.
April 27-30, 2016 FIRST World Championship
The Dreadbots gave numerous tours to children in our pits during the Championship in St. Louis, MO. Here are some of our favorite tours.
April 27-30, 2016 – Sierra, Cade and Duncan give a VIP tour to a junior Lego league team. They were so much fun, enthusiastic and curious. Engineering has a bright future with these kids.April 27-30, 2016 – Sierra gives a tour of our robot to a couple of kids. They especially liked our ‘sucker-punch’. The girl, who has a sibling on our team, thought she hated robotics. Now she plans to join our robotics team.
April 13-16, 2016
Michigan District State Championship
Our team experienced a couple of big set backs that required hours of repair time. But, we still found time to inspire the next generation of FIRST. We love that we are able to have such a positive impact on our community.
April 13-16, 2016 – A young boy attended the Michigan State Championship Competition with his grandfather. Kathryn gave him the VIP tour. He loved watching our team compete, helping test our ‘sucker-punch’ and ‘driving’ our robot. Here you see Kathryn, Peter and Cade testing the sucker-punch with him. He is now looking into joining a robotics team of his own.
March 18, 2016
Dexter Community Schools – Cornerstone Elementary Science Night
The Dreadbots had a great time inspiring the next generation of FIRST at a outreach at Cornerstone Elementary School’s Science Night. It was so much fun to see the kids eyes light up when seeing our robots. Here’s a few of our favorite moments that we captured.
March 10-12, 2016
Lakeview FIRST Robotics District Competition
We gave several tours in our pit between matches. This is one of the ones we caught.
March 10-12, 2016 – Kathryn giving a pit tour that included explaining our strategy board. We love inspiring the next generation of FIRST.
March 3-5, 2016
Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition #1
Between matches we were able to give a few tours. Here’s one of our favorites.
March 3-5, 2016 – Two kids that wanted to learn more about robotics and get a tour of our robot. So, of course Isaac and Dr. Sprague gave them a VIP tour. As they were leaving they said to their mom, “Robots are awesome! Can we see if they have a robotics team for us to join in Fenton?” A team member, Kathryn, took them over to the Fenton FRC pit to learn more. The results = Fenton does have a robotics team that they plan to join next year. We love when we can inspire the next generation of FIRST.
