Our team is starting off the new season with new team members. This year we have four new members and four returning members. The new team members are Peyton, Garen, Katie, and Maya. The four members that are returning from last year are Spencer, Alex, Jessica, and Avery. We also have three team members that have graduated off the team and we would like acknowledge them for their time spent on the team. The graduating members are: Madeline, Curtis, and Hannah. Thank you for your time and commitment to the team.
We have started off the year by building the board and downing a five or six frozen pizzas.
So far this season for research, we have gone on two field trips. The first fieldtrip was to Oak Hill Terrace, an assisted living facility in Waukesha. The second fieldtrip we took was to the Brewer Company in Menomonee Falls (a medical equipmanet company). Later this month, we will be meeting with someone from the Waukesha County Department of the Aging and Disabled.
Also, to help us identify what potential problems exist in the senior community, we are reaching out to as many people as possible that are 60 and over to take a simple online survey designed by one of our returning members. The link for this survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S88GC77
We would also like to publicly thank the group of senior residents at Oak Hill Terrace as well as Robert Best for the "focus group" session and tour of their facility. We learned a lot of information from them and want to thank them for their time.
We would also like to thank the Brewer Company for showing us how their business works as well as some innovative solutions to real problems that have been developed into some real working products. This gave us more inspiration to keep coming up with more ideas to help our senior community!
Finally, our team would not exist without donations from various sources to help us pay for entry fees to tournaments, equipment and parts for our robots, etc. Therefore, we would like to thank Keystone Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning for generously helping to support our team this year.
Thank you for helping us get off to a great start!
Avery
We are a 4-H FIRST LEGO League team from Waukesha, WI. Our team and the FIRST organization are for inspiration and recognition of science and technology, driven by gracious professionalism. In our 9-year history, we've been awarded Teamwork, Robot Performance, three Innovative Solutions, three Inspirations, 1st and 2nd place Research, two Champions, two Runners up Champions, 2nd Place Alliance, 3rd Place Core Values, and yes, even Gracious Professionalism. In all things, TEAMwork counts!
