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Dear Friends,
I would like to invite you to join us as we seek to INSPIRE a Nation: Botswana. In 2015 Swerve Robotics Club’s FIRST Tech Challenge team 417 S.K.I.D. (Space Koalas In Disguise) set out to create a sustainable FIRST program in Botswana. SKID started and mentored the FIRST Global Team Botswana, another high school robotics program, and supported their learning long distance.
Now, the team is seeking support to help us launch our teacher training program to prepare the teachers in Botswana to coach FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams. Our goal is to have 20 teams by the end of next year, and add at least 20 more each successive year. In order to reach this goal, we must raise about $50,000 to get our team to Botswana for this first training. Any money raised beyond our travel costs will go to the program costs in Botswana. The teacher capacity building program is scheduled for mid-July 2019, so we don’t have much time to raise the necessary funds.
What is FIRST Tech Challenge?
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a multi-faceted robotics program designed for students who want to compete head-to-head using a sports model. It’s kind of like a varsity sport for the mind. Teams of up to ten students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. With the help of coaches and technical mentors, students are challenged to develop strategies and build robots based on sound engineering principles. The season culminates with State and World Championships and awards are given for winning the competition as well as for community outreach, robot design and other real world accomplishments.
About Our Club: Swerve Robotics
We are a community-based, self-funded robotics club made up of students (both boys and girls) drawn from local public, private and homeschools. We offer a robotics program to students K-12 who might not otherwise have access to such programs regardless of economic status, race, gender, or sexual orientation. While most FTC teams are affiliated with funded school programs, we must rely solely on the generosity of our families, neighbors and sponsors as well as our fundraising efforts to meet our team’s financial needs such as team registration, tournament fees, buying a competition kit and related supplies. We give back to our local community through outreach activities aimed at informing the public about FIRST robotics and its benefits to students. The club also supports FIRST LEGO League Jr. and FIRST LEGO League teams. To learn more about Swerve Robotics, visit www.swerverobotics.org or about FIRST, visit www.firstinspires.org.
How You Can Help
We’re asking for donations to help provide travel funds for the team, support our LEGO robotics training program, purchase equipment for the schools in Botswana and other expenses. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please fill out the form below and return it with your check using the envelope provided. Donations of any size are deeply appreciated. We also welcome “in-kind” donations. Thank you for your consideration.
More information about Swerve Robotics (Swerve): Swerve Robotics promotes lifelong intellectual growth opportunities to students by providing access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through FIRST robotics competitions and other related activities.
I would like to invite you to join us as we seek to INSPIRE a Nation: Botswana. In 2015 Swerve Robotics Club’s FIRST Tech Challenge team 417 S.K.I.D. (Space Koalas In Disguise) set out to create a sustainable FIRST program in Botswana. SKID started and mentored the FIRST Global Team Botswana, another high school robotics program, and supported their learning long distance.
Now, the team is seeking support to help us launch our teacher training program to prepare the teachers in Botswana to coach FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams. Our goal is to have 20 teams by the end of next year, and add at least 20 more each successive year. In order to reach this goal, we must raise about $50,000 to get our team to Botswana for this first training. Any money raised beyond our travel costs will go to the program costs in Botswana. The teacher capacity building program is scheduled for mid-July 2019, so we don’t have much time to raise the necessary funds.
What is FIRST Tech Challenge?
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a multi-faceted robotics program designed for students who want to compete head-to-head using a sports model. It’s kind of like a varsity sport for the mind. Teams of up to ten students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. With the help of coaches and technical mentors, students are challenged to develop strategies and build robots based on sound engineering principles. The season culminates with State and World Championships and awards are given for winning the competition as well as for community outreach, robot design and other real world accomplishments.
About Our Club: Swerve Robotics
We are a community-based, self-funded robotics club made up of students (both boys and girls) drawn from local public, private and homeschools. We offer a robotics program to students K-12 who might not otherwise have access to such programs regardless of economic status, race, gender, or sexual orientation. While most FTC teams are affiliated with funded school programs, we must rely solely on the generosity of our families, neighbors and sponsors as well as our fundraising efforts to meet our team’s financial needs such as team registration, tournament fees, buying a competition kit and related supplies. We give back to our local community through outreach activities aimed at informing the public about FIRST robotics and its benefits to students. The club also supports FIRST LEGO League Jr. and FIRST LEGO League teams. To learn more about Swerve Robotics, visit www.swerverobotics.org or about FIRST, visit www.firstinspires.org.
How You Can Help
We’re asking for donations to help provide travel funds for the team, support our LEGO robotics training program, purchase equipment for the schools in Botswana and other expenses. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please fill out the form below and return it with your check using the envelope provided. Donations of any size are deeply appreciated. We also welcome “in-kind” donations. Thank you for your consideration.
More information about Swerve Robotics (Swerve): Swerve Robotics promotes lifelong intellectual growth opportunities to students by providing access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through FIRST robotics competitions and other related activities.