Wapakoneta High School FTC Robotics Team 10851

We were approached by the Space Museum to run a day of their engineering camp. On that day, we brought 30 kids over to the high school where we taught them about robotics. Such as, programming building and driving.

We also did a design challenge with them which was space themed. The Nazarene church in Wapak asked us to be a part of their easter celebration festival. Our team brainstormed and built 4 robotos to compete in a Hungry

Hungry Hippos style competition. Instead of balls, the robots collected easter eggs. The WASA robotics team has been reinvited this year and we are looking forward to going. Our yearly outreach to our community at the city

Moon Festival was rained out during the summer of 2018, we usually have a booth for kids to drive robotics and learn all about FIRST and what it has to offer. We bring 4 robotics that the kids have the ability to drive around.

We also bring our team robot from the previous years’ competition. Some of our members were able to go on a Honda trip and take a tour of the facilities and the factory to learn about job and internship opportunities.

We were able to sit down and talk to some Honda engineers about their experiences while working at Honda. We were also able to get a grant from Honda that would help fund our team. The team went down last spring to

help start the first lego league in the middle school. We went down for a week to help mentor and teach the middle schoolers about what FIRST lego league is so that we could start a team.

About WASA Robotics

WASA, continuing onto its fifth year, has called Wapakoneta High School it’s home since the dawn of its creation in 2015 by Coach Mr. Graham Fennell, and Coach Mrs. Kathan Koeller, a year later. WASA has always used it’s hometown roots, the birthplace of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, as a form of pursuit in everything we do, including our name itself, which is literally NASA with a W for Wapakoneta. As a team we like to combine our talents into a successful group that can be both triumphant, but also encouraging for our peers and in the Community around us. We have members from all different types of backgrounds, and grades, that when combined can truly create something amazing. Although we are only left with 3 members from the previous year, we hope that with the mentoring and teachings of the new members we can have an amazing year as a team, and as a family.

Focus

As a team, WASA tries to focus on what really matters to us. Helping others. Whether it be helping people through volunteering, or just the members on the team when they come to a roadblock, we always try to help each other. Through the years as a team, we find that that without strong communication through members, it is difficult to bond with each other. We find communication to also be very important in  a team setting, and truly after talking with each other more, we not only understand our differences better, but we also understand why we’re all here, which can only bring us closer together.