Send the Bolts to CHS Championship
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The Baltimore Bolts, Baltimore City’s own FIRST Robotics Competition team, have qualified for Distict Championship in Richmond Virgina. We are 1 of 58 teams competing at the tournament April 6-8th at Virginia Commonwealth University.
We are looking for funds to help defray costs of registration and travel to the tournament. Any funds raised above and beyond the goal will be used to fund the team in the future.
About Us:
We are in our rookie season with 6 students representing 4 high schools across Baltimore City (Western High School, Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, National Academy Foundation, and Paul L. Dunbar High School). The team is open to participation for all High School students in Baltimore City Public Schools. Our build space is hosted at Open Works, a maker space located at 1400 Greenmount Ave.
Our mission is to give our team members the inspiration and skills needed to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing through competitive robotics programming. These students work side by side with volunteer mentors, mainly engineering professionals and educators, to gain these skills throughout the season.
Competitive robotics creates growth opportunities for students in the following ways;
Students need to work as a team to brain storm, make decisions, correct mistakes, and complete tasks to field a competition ready robot
Students need to work around skill, knowledge and time limitations to avoid not being able to complete their assigned tasks
Students need to raise funds, create a budget, identify suppliers and execute a variety of purchase agreements to keep the team supplied with raw materials
Students need to define roles, define responsibility, and hold each other accountable to ensure the project is well managed
Students need to design, build code and test robots capable of competing in the given year’s game
Students need to learn how to communicate, deal with failure and work through stress inducing situations to make sure the team is greater than the sum of its parts
Students need to compete head to head and along side students from a variety of schools, back grounds, and skill levels to earn competition success
Students need to build a community coalition to increase the number of teams, increase the number and diversity of students involved and increase the community’s support for competitive robotics
Ability to compete in the program gives students access to over $25 million dollars in scholarships.
We will be good stewards of your donation and pay it forward to the next generation through outreach efforts in our community. Stop by OpenWorks on April 1st from 1-4pm to see our robot and to see how you can become a Baltimore Bolt!
We are looking for funds to help defray costs of registration and travel to the tournament. Any funds raised above and beyond the goal will be used to fund the team in the future.
About Us:
We are in our rookie season with 6 students representing 4 high schools across Baltimore City (Western High School, Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, National Academy Foundation, and Paul L. Dunbar High School). The team is open to participation for all High School students in Baltimore City Public Schools. Our build space is hosted at Open Works, a maker space located at 1400 Greenmount Ave.
Our mission is to give our team members the inspiration and skills needed to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing through competitive robotics programming. These students work side by side with volunteer mentors, mainly engineering professionals and educators, to gain these skills throughout the season.
Competitive robotics creates growth opportunities for students in the following ways;
Students need to work as a team to brain storm, make decisions, correct mistakes, and complete tasks to field a competition ready robot
Students need to work around skill, knowledge and time limitations to avoid not being able to complete their assigned tasks
Students need to raise funds, create a budget, identify suppliers and execute a variety of purchase agreements to keep the team supplied with raw materials
Students need to define roles, define responsibility, and hold each other accountable to ensure the project is well managed
Students need to design, build code and test robots capable of competing in the given year’s game
Students need to learn how to communicate, deal with failure and work through stress inducing situations to make sure the team is greater than the sum of its parts
Students need to compete head to head and along side students from a variety of schools, back grounds, and skill levels to earn competition success
Students need to build a community coalition to increase the number of teams, increase the number and diversity of students involved and increase the community’s support for competitive robotics
Ability to compete in the program gives students access to over $25 million dollars in scholarships.
We will be good stewards of your donation and pay it forward to the next generation through outreach efforts in our community. Stop by OpenWorks on April 1st from 1-4pm to see our robot and to see how you can become a Baltimore Bolt!
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