During the month of December, we hosted our first-ever Game Jam. The Game Jam was a school-wide competition in which student participants had a limited amount of time to design, code, and build their own video game from scratch. Through hosting this event we intended to provide an opportunity for those interested in STEM to exercise their passion, while also teaching the skills of collaboration and project management to participants.

Our high school hosts an annual Global Citizenship Day where students and teachers discuss pressing social issues. We gave a presentation educating students on new AI models and research in topics such as chatbots, recommendation algorithms, and computer vision. We explained how these different applications of AI work, how they will impact us, and some ethical issues associated with them.

From spring of 2022 to the end of the 2023 school year, we have been sending some of our members weekly to the Fox Meadow Elementary School, where we assist one of their computer teachers in his after-school clubs. We helped out with their robotics club in the spring of 2022, their 3D printing club in the fall of 2022, and their coding club in the spring of 2023. On the last day of their coding club, we brought our robot and some of our game elements to the school and allowed the students to drive the robot.

For the 2nd annual Scarsdale High School Non Sibi Day, we gave a presentation on deepfakes explaining what they are, how they are made, and how they will impact us. Our audience participated in several activities to reinforce basic understanding of autoencoders and training.

Additionally, we submitted an entry for the Non Sibi logo design contest and won. The design was printed on 1,500 stickers which were handed out throughout the day.

On April 22, we set up a booth at the Scarsdale High School carnival. Similar to our Pi Day activity, players could drive our robot and stack cones onto the junctions to win prizes. We charged $5 for the event, and offered candy, snacks, and stuffed animals as prizes.

Our school's math department celebrated Pi Day on March 14. We joined the festivities by hosting a small demo of our robot and our Power Play game elements for people to play. Participants could maneuver through a smaller version of the playing field and place cones onto the junctions.

Prior towards the first competition of the season, we participated in a scrimmage at John Jay High School. The scrimmage gave us insights on the strategy of this year's game and what we needed to improve on our robot before the real competition. 

We participated in the Hudson Lab School's community day, where we used our Freight Frenzy game elements to set up a station for visitors to interact with our robot. Similar to our carnival booth, participants could drive our robot and place cubes and balls into a deposit box.

MAY 27, 2022 - NON SIBI DAY

We created, rehearsed, and performed a presentation to a group of classmates about the AI Stop Button Problem/Paradox. We connected this presentation to the errors inherent to allowing AI to control important aspects of life, such as Amazon's failed hiring bot. 

This year, the Robotics team participated in our high school's Spring Carnival. We set up a booth where participants could drive our robot to gain points and win prizes in a game that involved picking up and placing blocks in specific locations. This allowed us to both raise funds for future robot improvements and to expose younger children in the community to what we do.

The Scarsdale Robotics team coordinated with the Edgemont Robotics team to meet for a post-season scrimmage in spring of 2022.

The Scarsdale Robotics team welcomed Mali Marton from Spaceil to talk with the students at Scarsdale High School about the Israeli's process of sending a spacecraft to the moon and the impact that it had on Israel.

We were thrilled to be part of the White Plains STEAM Expo and have the ability to learn from the other FIRST Tech Challenge teams about their experiences in making their own robots. For this event, we demonstrated our 2018-2019 robot for the guests of this event.

This year is the 5th Anniversary of the HEXPO, and we were very honored to be present at the Expo during their celebration! For the Expo, we brought our robot and some elements of the 2018-2019 Rover Ruckus FIRST Tech Competition that we competed in. We were very excited that the students were able to control the robot as well as appreciate the steps we took to build it. 

Every year, the Scarsdale High School hosts STEAM Day, a whole-day celebration of the scientific, technological, engineering, artistic and mathematics achievements of its students. For our workshop, we set up our Carnival Maze in the Design Lab and encouraged students to guide the robot through the course for free. We hope that our activity will inspire younger children with a passion for technology and demonstrate that robotics can be accessible for everyone.

On the 13th and 14th of April, the Robotics team participated in the school carnival in order to raise money to cover the cost of the robot and competition expenses. We set up a booth where participants were challenged to maneuver a robot through a wooden maze. We charged $3 for 2 minutes and $5 for 4 minutes, and those who completed the maze in the timeframe they payed for, received a prize. From this event, we received upwards of $300 from participants and donations, which we will use in the future for purchasing materials to improve our robot in competitions.