FTC 11047 Secret Base Open House and Friendly Tournament
They opened their practice space to FTC teams, parents, and kids from all over Taiwan to relive the POWER PLAY season, and even held a friendly tournament.
Outreach
Taking robots further
Our teachers step out of the classroom: helping rural school kids compete, training school teachers in robotics, and supporting charity robotics events.
Rural schools 4Charity events 2Teacher training · Talks 4School outreach 4Community 2
A teacher's story
From Manzhou, Pingtung to Taipei Da'an
Teacher Peng Peng, a sixth-cohort Teach For Taiwan fellow, spent four years at Changle Elementary in Manzhou, Pingtung — teaching the school's first-ever computer class, starting a robotics club, leading the kids to a national engineering creativity title, and taking on FLL. Since coming back to Taipei to open Dr. Player Da'an, Teacher Peng Peng has also been training school teachers in robotics in Hsinchu and beyond.
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Teacher Peng Peng
Footprint map
From Taipei to Manzhou, Pingtung
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- 2HsinchuBoai Science Center
- 3TaichungTaichung Girls' Senior High School
- 4Erlin, ChanghuaXiangtian Elementary
- 5Qigu, TainanSangu Elementary
- 6Checheng, PingtungChecheng Science Center
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Our students give back too
FTC 11047 Screw It visits schools
Besides competing, our FTC team visits elementary schools and kindergartens to let kids get hands-on with robots — planting STEM seeds everywhere they go.
FTC 11047 at a Kindergarten: Building Scooters and Racing F1 Cars
Just before Christmas, Screw It helped kindergartners build scooters and drive remote-control F1 cars. Beyond winning at competitions, they want to plant seeds of STEM everywhere they can.
FTC 11047 at the TFCF Center Fair
Kids tried driving robots with homemade F1 cars. All proceeds from the fair were donated to the center of the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF), directly helping the kids there.
FTC 11047 at Dazhu Elementary: Outreach and Fundraising
In the morning they introduced robots at Dazhu Elementary School, and in the afternoon they held a charity sale. They shared their love of robotics with everyone and raised funds for the trip to the world stage.
Our footprints
Where we've been
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2nd Yonglin Hope Elementary School Robotics Competition
A VEX GO robotics competition run by the Yonglin Foundation for children in rural and underserved communities, with Dr. Player Robotic Lab as a co-organizer. The theme was "Sustainable City Technology," and 64 teams competed side by side at the NTU Sports Center.
Sangu Elementary School in Tainan Wins 1st Place at the VEX GO Teamwork Challenge
A nature club supported by the Cathay Dream Program for Students. With teaching resources from Teacher Peng Peng at our Da'an classroom, they won 1st place at our VEX GO Robot Teamwork Challenge.
Teacher Workshop at Hsinchu County Boai Science Center: Getting Started with VEX Robots
Teacher Peng Peng led elementary and middle school teachers through a full day of hands-on VEX robotics and shared how to bring it into computer science class.
1st Yonglin Hope Elementary School Robotics Competition
The Yonglin Foundation's first robotics competition for Hope Elementary School students. Dr. Player Robotic Lab was a co-organizer, helping kids take their hard work to the stage.
Google × TFT Rural Camp: Xiangtian Elementary School, Erlin, Changhua
Kids worked on an FLL project: they split into teams, completed robot missions, and presented their results on stage.
TFT Story Sharing: The Place May Be Remote, but Education Knows No Distance
Teacher Peng Peng shared the story of four years in rural Pingtung, and of coming back to Taipei to open a robotics classroom.
NCCU International Volunteers Talk: Lesson Design and Teaching Skills
We showed college student volunteers how to write lesson plans and reflect after class, so they'd have the basics down before heading out to serve.
Teacher Workshop at Checheng Science Center, Pingtung: LEGO EV3 Robots
Teachers from different subjects built EV3 robots hands-on, from parts and coding all the way to designing a project-based lesson.
VUVU! I'm Off to Compete!
TFT followed the robotics journey of Teacher Peng Peng and the kids in Manzhou: they didn't give up even after losing, and got to see the world beyond their own.
Who Says Remote Areas Can't Have National Champions!
A very remote elementary school in Manzhou, Pingtung won the national championship and 3rd place at the 2021 Pingtung County Magistrate Cup National Engineering Creativity Competition.
FLL Workshop at Changle Elementary, the Southeasternmost School in Taiwan
Teacher Turtle spent a full day teaching at Changle Elementary School in Manzhou, Pingtung. In their first competition as a school, they formed two FLL teams and two FLL Jr. teams.
VEX EDR Camp: Taichung Girls' Senior High School
In two days, students build a VEX V5 ClawBot from scratch, write C++ for driver control and autonomous mode, and finish with a team competition.
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