Our Mission at STEAM Powered Robotics is to take STEM programs to students in and around our area.(Paulding, Douglas, Cobb, Fulton and Bartow Counties in Ga) We offer monthly electronics classes to homeschool students, Lego camps at the Cartersville Library and so much more.
Outreach
As Firebirds our outreach is HUGE! Over the years we have given a lot of our time, energy and knowledge to the community. We have gone to events such as Paulding County Touch A Truck in 2016 (>3000 people) Stimul8 Maker Event in Columbus, Ga Paulding County Parks Dept Super Hero Camp Many Cartersville Library Demos Paulding County Parks Dept Day Camp to demo our robot Hawks Game Visited several Civil Air Patrol Squadrons to show off our robot and to teach their STEM/Aerospace lesson Atlanta Maker Faire FLL Georgia State Tournament to show off our current robot Hiram Library Outreach to show off robot Douglas County Senior Center to show off project and worked with another team just to name a few
Volunteering
As a member of any of the Firebird teams you are required to volunteer. Our team members take their knowledge share it with the local community. They volunteer at FIRST events. Several of our team members even volunteered for a week at World in April of 2016 in St Louis.
Mentoring
We have taken lots of time to help other teams around us to better both of our teams. We have mentored Douglas County High School's 4 teams We have mentored Mason Creek Elementary FLL team We have mentored the community team The Ducks We have mentored East Paulding Middle School's 2 FLL teams I am sure there are other teams we are leaving out