Our Outreach
Our mission is to help out not just FIRST community, but the world as well. We also aspire to
spread STEM to our society through fun and creativity.
FIRST Teams (Local)
Short Circuits (FTC Team #24085) - a rookie team that we have mentored throughout the 2023-2024 season. We taught them coding and helped them out with building.
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Optimisttic and Outgoing Orcas (FLL teams #59214 & #59213) - Loose Screws has spent 50+ hours of assisting local FLL teams preparation for interviews through public speaking skills, carried out team building and organizational exercises, and has allocated thursday meeting times to mentor their team. This has resulted in these teams earning distinct Innovation awards and advancing to Regionals!
Our YT Tutorials
We have provided free published resources, in video form, as per teams' requests we get through emails or in person, garnering views through our Youtube series FTC Computer Vision Tutorials: A Beginner’s Guide and FTC Coding Tutorials: A Beginner’s Guide.
Memes And Interviews!
We have reached out to teams all through our Instagram reels series, Screws Says, bringing them along our robotics journey. We also upload series of memes each month called Monthly Memes on our instagram to make robotics funny!
Introducing FIRST and Advocating
STEM
We showcase our robot to the robotics community and inspiring young who are not already within the community to also pursue STEM activities
We had a 1 on 1 meeting with Orange County Commissioner: Ms. Bonilla to advocate towards public policy changes towards the promotion of STEM/FIRST. We’ve been invited to assist with their Sustainable STEM Fair on April!. With their valuable guidance, we are arranging plans to host our own Youth STEM Faire (expected cost: $10,000) in the upcoming year.
FTC ELO
We self-developed Open Source 3D Printable Models, such as pulley covers, in case other teams needed a solution to the same problem we experienced. We publicly post designs we believe other teams can learn and benefit highly from.
We noticed that conventional OPR metrics were unreliable for match predictions, and we looked towards other alternatives. We realized there Were none like what we were looking for, and decided to create our own elo-based system to use for match predictions: ftcelo.vercel.app
This allows us to accurately predict matches and we’ve found it extremely useful for playoff matches. We’ve made this public to the entire FTC Community, through the use of the FTC Discord. FTC Elo has garnered more than 3,500 views from hundreds of teams, from over 15 countries. We are constantly adding new features that the community requests!
