The FYRE Foundation will provide FREE STEM robotics classes once a week on Monday evenings from 7:30pm-8:30pm at the Redeemer Church’s Student Resource Center located at 12404 Boyette Rd, Riverview, FL. Classes will begin on April 2nd and go through May 21st.
FYRE will provide all materials necessary.
Students will learn about: 1) Raspberry Pi programming, 2) Python scripting, 3) microelectronics, 4) electric motors and actuators, 5) bread board configuration, and 6) robotics. The first week will be introductions and team formation followed by six weeks of classes. The last week will be a robotics competition. All classes will be recorded on Facebook live and YouTube to help students who cannot attend each week. Families will need to sign a hold-harmless agreement and permission to be recorded.
An adult 18 or older must accompany the student and be present in the class each week. The STEM classes will be taught by a nuclear engineer with a graduate certificate in robotics from MIT.
The target of this class is for boys and girls ages 8-13. Special consideration will be given to youth in underrepresented minority communities. Applications will be accepted through March 17, 2023. A panel will select the first round of students and make notifications on March 19, 2023. Incomplete applications may not be fully competitive. The student essay will be judged on a merit-based grading scale.
There are 18 total student slots which will form 6 teams of 3 students each. Six slots are for ages 8-10 years old and 6 slots for ages 11-13 years old. Scouts from Cub Scout Pack 481(Family) and Scouts BSA Troops 482(Boy) and Troop 483(Girl) will make up the remaining 6 slots.
Those interested in joining Scouting can continue on and complete the BSA Robotics Merit Badge following the eight-week STEM class and become eligible to participate in a FREE BSA Nuclear Engineering Merit Badge being taught at a local university in late summer 2023.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: 17 MARCH 2023
ELIGIBILITY:
- All youth, boys and girls, between the ages of 8 and 13 years old may apply.
- Priority for this class will be given to students from one of the following underrepresented minority communities: Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
HOW TO APPLY: Complete the attached form. You can scan completed (signed/dated) form and email it to info@TheFYRE.org or mail it to 13194 US Hwy 301 S Suite 320, Riverview, FL 33578.
HOW YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED: Parents of accepted students will be notified by email on March 18, 2023.
For more information on FYRE Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics programs, click here.