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FLL Challenge
As early as our first year as a team, we understood the importance of spreading science and technology, so in 2010 we opened our first FLL team, D++ 285, in our school. Throughout the past 15 years we have mentored the team daily, and it paid off: the team has a long list of achievements, including winning 2nd place Champions Award in the 2022 Arkansas Championship Tournament, and Runner Up in the GIA in 2018.
In 2016 we expanded the reach of our impact on the middle school students by opening another team, Dgital 1331. We mentor them consistently too, and they have reached impressive achievements, including Champions Award in the Israel Championship in 2023, and 8th place Robot Performance Award in the 2023 Houston Championship.
Due to increasing demand, in 2020 we opened a third team, Dscover 2503. Despite being younger than its sister teams, with our dedicated mentoring the team has earned great achievements, such as the 3rd place Innovation Project Award.
In 2024 we noticed there was a lot of demand for FLL in our school, but due to the war we understood we won't be able to prepare them well enough for competitons. Thus we decided to open two non-competitive teams, who we mentored throughout the year while still mentoring two competitive ones.
In addition to mentoring teams ourselves, we help different FLL teams in Tel Aviv and mentor people who later mentor other teams. We have also translated different materials to Hebrew for teams to use.
Over the years we saw teams use the basic robot that arrives with each kit, but it isn't well equiped for FLL Challenge. Thus we created the Educator++, based on the normal Educator but with a strong, generic chassis and better suited for FLL Challenge. We were happy to see different teams use the Educator++ in competition, as well as help specific teams build it.
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FLL Explore
In 2014 we opened the first FLL Explore teams in Tel Aviv. Since then we have opened and mentored 70 teams in the city. We have opened teams in different schools, kindergartens, and social centers, and mentored kids aged 5-9 from different neighborhoods, socio-economic levels, and education backgrounds.
We also have a FLL mentoring seminar which we take every opportunity to ran. We created this seminar to provide teams and mentors with the right tools and knowledge to run FLL Explore teams.
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MFR
Back in 2010 we created our signature activity, the MFR - My First Robot. We take the activity wherever we are invited. The activity is a small competition that simulates the FRC season. The participants, divided to groups of a few kids, compete against each other after building a small 'bot' using a small vibrating engine, battery and other different materials. Each team designs an unique robot after they pick a strategic decisions. The robots compete in a 'Sumo-like' competition which is very fun to watch and participate in. Another variation of the activity is sticking a marker to the robot so that it draws as it moves.
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Krembotics
The Krembotics is a project we do in collaboration with different brances of Wings of Krembo, a youth movement for children with and without disabilities. We brought our MFR activity and 2020 robot Stardust to all Tel Aviv braches and on in Ramat Gan, and exposed the kids to the world of Robotics. The project was started in 2024 and was done fairly close to our workshop, but as time goes on we hope to expand and reach as many kids as we can.
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Seminars and Presentations
We know the importance of passing down the knowledge we have to others, so we take as many opportunities as we can to do so.
In 2020 we took part in the yearly MAC - Media, Awards and Community conference, that took place on zoom due to the Corona virus. That same year we presented on how to run and mentor FLL Challenge and Explore groups, as well as on the Educator++ and the GIA, in two seminars that FIRST Israel organized in Sukkot and Hannuka.
The following year FIRST changed the FTC and FRC rules and added an Innovation Challenge due to the pandemic. for team members who were not FLL alumni the challenge might have seemed new and intimidating, so we hosted a zoom meeting and presented anyone who wanted with tips and tools for research.
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Girls in STEM
We know the importance of empowering young girls to study science and technology. We start right here by modeling - over the years we sent girls of our group to FLL Explore groups so that girls can look up to someone like them, as well as opned groups for girls only. In out FLL Challenge we saw a simillar effect - once we incorporated female Alumni in the mentoring of the groups in out school, we saw a rise in girls joining. We also see it paying off by seeing how those girls go on to join our team and take leading positions in all sub-teams. We have been regional partners with FIRST Ladies for the past 7 years and so we held conversation circles for girls at many different events.
Over the past few years we worked with the Baba-da organization, which offer orthodox girls a fun and creative STEM learning program. we helped them organize thier yearly FLL Challenge competiotins for girls in 1st-9th grades. We also took part in AlcieCode's hackathon, a program for girls in STEM subjects. Together with Team Sycamore 5614 did activities for the girls such as building and coding FLL robots, as well as showed them our robot and told them about the FIRST programs.
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FIRST Community
Being a part of FIRST we realize the importance of being a part of a community. Thus we try to help and collaborate with teams and FIRST Israel as much as we are able to.
Although we compeat against them we try to build good relationships with the other teams, especially in Tel aviv, helping each other when we can. In 2022 we helped Orbit 1690 and FIRST Israel to check the FMS system, and used Orbit's field to practice. In 2023 we helped MA 5951 to write code for and use their swerve, and received parts made in CNC from Mariners 8223. That same year we helped Ninjas 4744, GreenBlitz 4590, Demacia 5635 and Roboactive 2096. We also ran a seminar and taught 20+ teams how to code their Swerve drive.
We also helped the FTC team Tatooine 12201 in 2023 by running a private seminar for them, teaching them how to mentor FLL Challenge teams and program SPIKE Prime robots.
We have also taken care throughout the years to volunteer in different FIRST Israel events. Each year our team members volunteer in FLL and FTC competitions and the FIRST Israel office.
Maybe biggest project we raised with other teams in our city was the Festibotica, with support from Tel Aviv municipality and the the Port Market. This is a big fair showcasing our and our FLL Challenge teams' robots, as well as other fun activities and FIRST as a whole. After the huge success we had in 2022, we once again partnered in 2024 with Maker Assemble 5951, Vulcan 3835, GreenBlitz 4590, and Mariners 8223.
During the Swords of Iron war we wanted continue to spread science and technology even with limited possibilities. We took part is Mariners' project Waves of Hope, and ran two presentations on zoon for kids. We also came to hotels Dan Acadia and Herods in Tel Aviv with GreenBlitz and other teams. There we did fun STEM activities for evacuated kids. In addition we taught a programing course for the kids in our middle school on zoom, so that we can do it even when we couldn't do it physically.
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FIRST Romania
In 2017-2018 we acompanied FIRST Romania in their first steps. In 2017 in the Israel FTC Championship a team member of ours acompanied the two FTC groups from Romania as a translator. We hosted them in our workshop when we revealed our robot, and since then we are in contact with the FIRST Romania crew.
Over the years that have passed we helped both Romanian teams and the FIRST Romania crew. Members of the D-Bug family have flown to Romania on several occasions to judge and volunteer in competitions in Romania.
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