team xbot 488

🌟 Join us in DOUBLING your impact this Giving Tuesday! 🌟 For over 20 years, we've dedicated ourselves to empowering Seattle students through STEAM education. Your support drives mentored robotics competitions and hands-on projects, shaping a brighter future. 🚀💡 Donate today, and every contribution will be DOUBLED, up to $10k! Check out the link in our bio to make a difference. 💙

Our FRC team made it back from Worlds after achieving impressive results.

Worldwide, team xbot 488 placed 128 out of 3286 teams.

Upwards and onwards to our summer workshops, and we hope to be back in 2024 with returning and first-time students.

Our FRC team will compete today through Saturday of this week. You can find our match schedule on thebluealliance.com Team XBOT - Team 488 (2023) (https://lnkd.in/ez7m7MFT) and watch our matches in the Hopper division live streamed on Twitch.tv.

Team XBOT - Team 488 FIRST Robotics Competition team from Seattle, Washington, USA.

Huge congratulations is due to our team xbot FRC #488 with XBOT Robotics!

This team has worked so hard and gotten through many engineering feats this year... in doing so, they were able to qualify for FIRST Worlds in Houston! team 488 qualified after a nail-biting competition at Pacific Northwest FIRST District Championship last week.

We will be cheering the team on and hope you will join the livestream (to be posted later this week) starting on April 19th. Good luck to our students, mentors and robot who are flying out starting tomorrow.

Today celebrates how far women’s rights and gender equality have come in recent years, while still recognizing the strides forward needed. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are still heavily male-dominated – only 21% of engineering majors and 19% of computer science majors are women.

❓ Why?

According to data from AAUW, studies show that there are key factors perpetuating gender STEM gaps in education:

🚻 Gender Stereotypes
♂ Male-Dominated Cultures
♀ Fewer Role Models - a Harvard study found that if there were as many role models for women in engineering as men, the gender gap would be cut in half

❓ What can we do to close the STEM gap?

The foundation for a STEM career is laid early in life. Focusing on organizations and policies in early education are key to provide enough support to break this barrier.

📓 Improve STEM education and support for girls in early education
📚 Work to recruit, attract and retain women into STEM majors
💡 Give girls and women the skills and confidence to success in math and science

We are grateful for the collaboration between our nonprofit and our partners at University of Washington, Seattle Public Schools, Microsoft, Boeing, Best Buy, The Fordham Street and Norcliffe Foundations. Over the next year we will work together to provide these foundational skills to girls in Seattle Public Schools.



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Tune in to twitch.tv/firstinspires28 (blue truck) to watch our matches live. We are dew taking the field soon! What time is it? It's 488!!!

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Our Executive Director Naomi Takeuchi, MBA, as well as volunteers Wen Hua Chen, Johnny Wu, and Jeremy Calvert spoke to University of Washington students at the Allen School Recruiting Fair pertaining to XBOT Robotics internship opportunities last week.
We aim to see that all students have an equal opportunity to engage with FIRST, and to kickstart the learning pipeline at an early age so that ALL students have a higher potential to get into programs like UW Computer Science.

It is Giving Tuesday! Please take a moment to help our organization provide STEAM programs to underserved students in the South Seattle area. We could not continue our work without your support.

We couldn't continue our work without your support. As you get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday, please consider XBOT Robotics during this holiday season. Giving Tuesday is next week, and it is easy to donate by going to our website at xbotrobotics.org/donate. Your dollars help us continue to give underserved South Seattle students a brighter future!

We're happy to announce that our other XBOT Robotics sponsored FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams, MekoNeko #2939 and NekoMeko #3231, did well in their first competition at the International School in Bellevue on November 6th! Here's a photo of the team in action. Remember that Giving Tuesday is in two weeks! Please forward this to your network to remember XBOT Robotics! We couldn't continue our important work without the help of our community! Thank you for your continued support!

Come join us for our XBOT Robotics Pre-Season Kickoff meeting at the Boy Scouts of America Annex building at 3120 Rainier Avenue South! The building is a short walk away from Franklin High School and Beeline bus transportation will be available from Cleveland High School students. Meet at the front of Cleveland immediately after 5th period class to catch the Beeline bus over! And did I mention pizza??? Come join the festivities!

XBOT Robotics is excited to announce that we have been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Best Buy Foundation Seattle Fund!!! The funding will be applied toward our technology training workshops geared toward underserved high school students in South Seattle. Students learn CAD Design, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Programming through STEM Hands-on-Workshops receiving practical hands-on knowledge.

This announcement aligns well with the Best Buy Teen Tech Centers they have developed in the US and Canada. We are looking forward to working with this amazing organization and seeing how this relationship unfolds!

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