Illini Robotics is the umbrella organization that consists of several robotics teams for students ages 4-18 that compete in various FIRST Robotics competitions. Illini Robotics' mission is to engender interest in science and engineering, particularly among youth and participate in events to raise profile of robotics, science and engineering in the community.
The purpose of Illini Robotics’ demos is to get more students and adults interested in robotics and STEM. Currently, teams must transport equipment - including robots, computers, and more - to demos in personal vans and cars which is not only difficult, but inefficient. A trailer would enable teams to bring more equipment to events so the people there would have more to look at and learn from. Additionally, the trailer would make it easier for Illini Robotics’ teams to hold demos, giving teams power to hold demos more frequently. Increasing the number of quality demos gets us closer to our goal of engaging one student per one dollar invested. For this project we are targeting 3,000 kids.
Illini Robotics would like $2,000 towards a trailer to improve robotics and STEM outreach through demos.
