My students from Pearland, TX are part of a robotics team that pulls in kids from our three high schools in our district and works closely with mentors from NASA. Our robotics team gives students from many different cultures, interests, and incomes an amazing opportunity to come together under one roof to learn about robotics, build technical skills, and service our community.
They enthusiastically design, build, and program robots while finding time to teach and empower students at younger grade levels to code and build robots too.
They are rewarded by their hard work as they attend state, national, and world robotics competitions each year to proudly display their robot's capabilities to other teams spanning the world.
They are the most motivated and hard-working students you will ever come across!
My Project
Safety is always the top priority when it comes to our robotics team. Our students build fully functioning (120+ pound) robots that are designed and programmed to compete in national and world competitions each year. Students wear safety gear as they utilize any tool from a simple screw-driver all the way up to lathes and CNC mills. They cut metal, wood, and plastic materials. They wire electronics, motors, and build circuits utilizing 18-amp batteries. Our students work closely with NASA engineers and mentors that instill them with knowledge and encourage their technical expertise as they work up to sixteen (extra) hours per week during the spring to prepare to compete in FIRST Robotics Competitions each year.
With these kind of opportunities also comes risk.
By having efficient and direct access to an AED, students, mentors, teachers, and volunteers would have the greatest chance at having a normal heart rhythm restored within a couple minutes should an incident ever occur where this level of response is necessitated for an individual. Students and staff have been trained on how to properly use an AED, but not having access to one when needed would limit their trained response to take action before emergency services arrived.
By donating to our project, you will not only help to broaden and improve student, mentor, and teacher emergency response in our campus shop, you will ultimately help to ensure the life support of an individual should the need ever arise.
Not only would an AED help to preserve the life of individuals involved on our robotics team, but it would be a device we can take to our competitions where it could service another individual (from a different team or an audience member) nearby should a life-threatening situation ever present itself that required its use.
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