Community Outreach

UMass Lowell Research Center
(Littleton Robotics Scrimmage)

Our past, current and future efforts

As part of our efforts to build a community, learn and spread our experience with others, apart from building a website, and producing our materials for it, we have been visiting area universities and interviewing experts in the field to gain more knowledge. Some of our efforts so far are below.

Research in the Community

Expert Interview:
Coach Cary
High School GNCE Robotics

Our robotics lab at the middle school was made possible by our FTC High School team, and their incredible coach! We interviewed the High School coach to see how they built our lab, how they started the program, and what kind of fundraising they did. This is some parts of our interview that other teams may find helpful.

Learning about Micro and Macro Robots from BU, MIT and UDel

At the BU Robotics lab, we had professors and graduate students from BU, MIT and UDel teach us a lot of physics! We saw the following three presentations before we saw the micro-robots and the macro-robots.

Professor Sambeeta Das from University of Delaware

Here we learned about Magnets and Magnetism, so we could later see how the micro-robots have a role in the medical field with targeted therapy.

Rashmi Prava Mohanti from MIT

Here we learned about how microrobots can treat small issues in the body that we cannot see. For example, how microrobots can remove blood clots inside the body.