South Orangetown BOTZ

We are grateful for our members who donated to our annual fundraiser! We would especially like to thank our top 3 donors:

1st. Jack Pearl
2nd. Adrian Kang
3rd. Esther Hwang, Molly Cullot, and Kai Richter (not pictured)

We’d also like to give a shout out to our other donors (not pictured):
Luca Supaswud, Cassidy Ng, Calum Tjon, and Daniel Yoo

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Day one of CodeCon has gone great! CodeCon is an amazing way for us to tell 8th grade students what robotics is all about.

Today one of our Platinum sponsors, , visited our team! We are so grateful for their continued support, and happy they got the chance to see how we have grown as a team.

We had such a fun leads meeting today! We were able to prepare for the 2024 season and organize our team.

Last week SO BOTZ participated in the Family Technology Night for children K-5. This event hosted many different STEM, Computer Science, and Robotics related activities. Students had the opportunity to drive one of our previous robots and learn about how a high school robotics team works!

Introducing our Project Managers in Training (from left to right) Calum Tjon and Cassidy Ng

Introducing our Finance & Marketing leads (from left to right) Esther Hwang and Kierra Kim

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the trunk or treat, we had so much fun seeing everyone in their costumes! Happy Halloween 🎃👻

Come visit the Crescendo cafe in front of the library Monday (10/30) and Tuesday (10/31) during lunch periods! We will be selling Halloween themed chocolate covered marshmallows and pretzels to support our team! 🎃👻

Recently, SO BOTZ was recognized by the Kiwimbi Foundation for our contributions to the
STAGSS robotics team, which helped them win four competitions. We are so grateful for the opportunity to help this team, and can't wait to see more of their hard work pay off!

Introducing our Outreach & Impact Leads for the 2023-2024 season (from left to right) Cassidy Ng and Luca Supaswud

Introducing our Design Leads for the 2024 season (from left to right) Daniel Yoo and Shayan Haque.

Day 3 of revealing our leads for the 2023-2024 season. Introducing our software leads (left to right) Oscar Zheng and Louis Fermaintt.

Day 2 of revealing our leads for the 2023-2024 season. Introducing Seamus Doherty, our Scouting Manager.

Today our Software and Finance and Marketing sub teams worked on continuing training for our newer members! Build is advancing work on our swerve.

Day 1 of introducing all of our leads for the 2023-2024 season. First up are our attendance leads this year are (left to right) Gabriel Marasigan and Gael Santos.

Today our build team was hard at work on making the Swerve box for our upcoming preseason competition. The Swerve will allow our robot to move in any direction at any time.

Today was our first meeting of the preseason. We are training all of our new members on the jobs that they will need to do and the things they will need to know for their sub teams during the build season. So happy to be back!

Our second meeting of the year is tomorrow, September 14th! Don’t worry if you missed the first meeting. Everyone is welcome! #6911

Text "STAGSS" to 41444 to help this all girls robotics team from Kenya compete at the 2023 Worlds Robotics Olympiad in Panama.

Last fall, our team recognized a need that existed in rural Kenya and we believed we could rally to help students our age learn about STEM, despite the distance. Remotely, we started teaching technology skills and expanded to teach computer science, problem-solving, and robotics. We are most proud of our collaboration with St. Thomas Amagaro Girls Secondary School to organize a competitive robotics team, STAGSS. This hard-working group of girls proved their success and won all four levels of the Kenya Science and Engineering Fair (KSEF) including the Sub-county, County, Regional, and National levels. This team also won WRO KENYA, which is a National competition organized by the STEM IMPACT CENTER. Due to their success, they have recently qualified for the World Robot Olympiad International Final in Panama from November 7th- November 9th.

As you can imagine, this is a life-changing opportunity for these girls and this community. Every step of the way, they have demonstrated determination, grit and eagerness to learn. Due to their circumstances, they are not fortunate enough to pay for these fees. Going to this competition would be a big step in helping decrease the digital divide around the world. We hope you can support these girls to achieve success.

We’re looking for motivated and creative mentors to support our high school robotics team! Please email [email protected] if you can help. #6911

Text "STAGSS" to 41444 to help this all girls robotics team from Kenya compete at the 2023 Worlds Robotics Olympiad in Panama.

Last fall, our team recognized a need that existed in rural Kenya and we believed we could rally to help students our age learn about STEM, despite the distance. Remotely, we started teaching technology skills and expanded to teach computer science, problem-solving, and robotics. We are most proud of our collaboration with St. Thomas Amagaro Girls Secondary School to organize a competitive robotics team, STAGSS. This hard-working group of girls proved their success and won all four levels of the Kenya Science and Engineering Fair (KSEF) including the Sub-county, County, Regional, and National levels. This team also won WRO KENYA, which is a National competition organized by the STEM IMPACT CENTER. Due to their success, they have recently qualified for the World Robot Olympiad International Final in Panama from November 7th- November 9th.

As you can imagine, this is a life-changing opportunity for these girls and this community. Every step of the way, they have demonstrated determination, grit and eagerness to learn. Due to their circumstances, they are not fortunate enough to pay for these fees. Going to this competition would be a big step in helping decrease the digital divide around the world. We hope you can support these girls to achieve success.

Congratulations to the STAGSS Robotics Team for becoming the 2023 World Robot Olympiad Champions! We are so proud of how far this team has come, this is their second national win!

So far at STEAM camp, middle school students learned how to design, build, and test different legs to try and win the hopper race! Students are having so much fun learning about prototyping and the engineering design process!

We are so happy to be back doing leadership training!

Day 1 at BattleCry! We had so much fun helping build the field and getting some practice in!

A big thanks to Werfen for their sponsorship this season and for inviting our team to tour their facility! It was a great experience for our members to meet the Engineering team and see how the automation and engineering applications work!

A big thanks to Werfen for their sponsorship this season and for inviting our team to tour their facility! It was a great experience for our members to meet the Engineering team and see how the automation and engineering applications work!

On Tuesday, SOBOTZ had our senior signing. The FRC senior signing is an event where seniors in FIRST sign a letter of intent officially announcing their plans after high school. Congrats Chris, Dylan, Sean, and Angel!

We had the best time at the New York City Regional Competition this weekend! We value the experience we had and the friends we made along the way even if the ending is not what we desired! Thank you NYC FIRST for hosting this event. We had a blast! Thank you to our drive team, scouting team, safety captain, pit crew, media team, all of our members, and our amazing mentors and advisors for the hard work and long hours you put into this competition. We appreciate all the support from our friends, family, and community! And of course thank you to our amazing alliance partners G-House Pirates Team 354 and HVPA P-Tech Dragons. Couldn’t have asked for a better ending to our season!

Thanks again to our sponsors
Goosetown Communications
Werfen NA
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
South Orangetown Central School District
and 1P.org!

Even though we lost, we had an amazing time competitive with the G-House Pirates and the HVPA Dragons! We managed two triple balances and we’re so grateful to have had such an amazing alliance! We hope to see you guys next year! 😁🙌

Even though we lost our first playoff round, we’re staying strong and we can’t wait for the next match!

Shoutout to Zee for bringing so much team spirit to us and other teams!! We’re so happy for the support in cheering us on! 😁👏
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A huge thank you to our drive team for working tirelessly all day! Our team is so proud and we can’t wait to see them in action again tomorrow!! 🫶😁

We are so grateful our superintendent Ms. Eckert visited us today at the New York City Regional Competition to cheer us on! We are so thankful for her support!

Thanks again to our sponsors
Goosetown Communications
Werfen NA
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.

and 1P.org!

Update: We won match 36 with a score of 87 to 38 and earned three ranking points, making us rank 17! We’re staying consistent and can’t wait to compete in match 46! Stay tuned!! 😁👍

Won our last match 71 to 67 and earned two ranking points, moving us up to rank 18! Keep up the good work drive team! 👏

Good luck to our friends at Unreal 7730 today at the New York City Regional Competition! We can’t wait to see you guys out on the field!

Thanks again to our sponsors
Goosetown Communications
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
Werfen NA
South Orangetown Central School District
and 1P.org!

Congratulations to our friends the robotics team STAGSS from St. Thomas Amagoro Girls Secondary School. They have done it again and qualified for the national competition in Kisumu City in the end of April!

Thanks again to our sponsors
Goosetown Communications
Werfen NA
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
South Orangetown Central School District
and 1P.org!