Building the Future

South Lakes Elementary School

We helped the school set up an event called Snow Day on Dec 3rd, 2022. This event was set up for the families and kids of the South Lake. We helped them set up a snow station. Thanks to the help of the following members Alexa Stokes, Kyne and Brady Starler, Brody Heline, Mathew Morris, Jack Schindler

Established A FVMS Team

We helped the Fuquay-Varina Middle School establish a First Lego League (FLL)team. We helped them understand some of the rules we as an FRC team follows. As well as teach them more about the STEM world like programming and engineering. The kids at the middle school asked questions freely so they can get a deeper understanding of what the team means and how to handle the team. Shout out to the following Slice members that went to this incredible interactive event Julia Mikaelian, Mathew Morris, Rachel Stokes, Ally Russell, Julisa Mancia, Jacob, Kyne Starler, Therron, Jack Shindler, Ashton Poindexter

Fireflies and Slice

Slice will be mentoring FLL teams at Ballentine Elementary School(BES), a local school in the area surrounding Fuquay-Varina High School. BES’s FIRST® LEGO® League program guides youth through STEM learning and exploration at an early age. Students will understand the basics of STEM and apply their skills in an exciting competition while building habits of learning, confidence, and teamwork skills along the way. We are excited to be a resource for the teams to use as they GLOW throughout their seasons like their school mascot the firefly. We hope to see members of these teams join Slice in the future.

 STEM Day at Fuquay-Varina Middle

Members of Slice built Lego EV3 robots for a STEM Day that will be held at Lincoln Heights Magnet Elementary School after AP Exams in May, we hope to start a new FLL program at Lincoln Heights after this event. We helped the Fuquay-Varina Middle School establish a Tech Challenge team. We helped them understand some of the rules we as an FRC team follows. As well as teach them more about the STEM world like programming and engineering. The kids at the middle school asked questions freely so they can get a deeper understanding of what the team means and how to handle the team.

 Slice in the ballpark

Members of Slice volunteered in two Miracle League(a baseball laeague for children and adults with special needs) games on 3/24/2022 acting as buddies to the players throughout their games, assisting in hitting, running the bases with them, warming up with the players, and assisting in the fielding

 Thanks White Oak Elementary

Members of Slice Rachel Stokes, Jack Schindler, Therron Mawyer, Kyne Starler, and Matthew Morris got on a GoogleMeet and demonstrated different apsects of robotics for members of a class at White Oak Elementary School early in the season. This included driving the robot, explaining different aspects of the electrical, mechanical, coding, business subteams, and the drive team. They sent us letters after our first competition at ECU thanking us for the demonstration and congratulating us on our performance. We are thankful for their support and look forward to potentially seeing them in robotics in the future!

 Curriculum Fair 2022

Members of Slice participated in the curriculum fair at school on 2/17/2022 to showcase their work and recruit incoming freshman. There were stations for each sub-team with at least one representative for each sub-team to share information about their specific sub-team as the robot was driven in the background. We saw lots of interest within the incoming freshman class and are looking forward to seeing them next year!