Outreach

Cub Scouts from throughout the Greater Hudson Valley Council were invited to the Family Camp Activity Spring Tour, a series of events at different camps in the newly merged Council. The Council has chosen to emphasize the STEM that is normally baked into the Scouting program, and has asked the JAYBOTS who are already members of Scouts BSA Troop to facilitate a session entitled “Explore the Sky” with activities about constellations on phases of the moon.

We are currently tutoring middle schoolers in areas such as Earth Science, Algebra 1 and Pre-Algebra

Robert and Mili taught kids how to use scratch by giving them games with bugs in them.

Eve taught how to use Arduino during the summer.

We ran weekly CAD challenges where team members could pit their CAD skills against each other to see who could build the best model. We invited the TechnoChix to join in for two of the sessions.

We recruited members from the club

Griffin Robotics is a FIRST Lego League team from Van Wyck Junior High School. The Jaybots are currently mentoring the Griffin Robotics, in hope that they will remain interested in Robotics and join the Jaybots in the future. We currently assist them on Tuesdays.

The JayBots operated a booth at John Jay’s Winter Carnival. The booth consisted of allowing kids to drive Dash or Spheros in an obstacle course, or our robot. It was a successful fundraiser and we raised about $200 to fund our club.

Talked about CAD - 2D and 3D design Used for manufacturing Such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and machining. See part before you build it Helps see Prototypes

What we did - Used a LEGO Brick as an example for CADing LEGO Brick was almost done except the interior

The JayBots presented to the Regents and Honors Chemistry classes at John Jay High School in the hopes of recruiting new members.

Global Foundries presented to the Jaybots, explaining the work done at Global Foundries and showing the team a virtual tour of their facilities in Singapore with the use of virtual reality headsets. The employees from Global Foundries also explained the process of automation and how it is used in producing wafers.

We hosted an event for the Cub Scouts for their Nova Stem badge “Cub Scouts can Code”. Four events were hosted: Launch!, Power Up, Hang On! and Numbers Don’t Lie.