On sunday April 17th, 2011 the Tronic Titans attended the CAGIS (Canadian Association for Girls In Science) second annual open house and science fair. This event was hosted for girls ages 7 to 16, hoping to get them interested in science and technology from a young age. We brought this years robot, Eos, with us to do a demonstration for the girls, passing along the message of FIRST as well as an invite to join our team.

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On Friday, May 27, the Tronic Titans participated in our schools fundraiser called “Titans Battle Cancer” for the second year in a row. This fundraiser is an initiative for our school to raise money for Camp Quality. Camp Quality is a non-profit, volunteer organization that, not only provides children with week-long camping experience, but also provides year-round support for children with cancer (receiving treatment or in remission) and their families. Each team must raise at least $1000, with all proceeds going to Camp Quality. The Tronic Titans had a day filled with fun, while benefitting a great cause. Activities during the day included a hypnotist, musical entertainment, a cosmo class fundraiser, and students walking and running around the track. This day was very successful in regards to proceeds for Camp Quality. The Tronic Titans were proud to be participating in an event that raises money in order to make a significant impact on the lives of others.
On Tuesday, May 31, the Tronic Titans visited Bishop Reding, a neighboring high school within our board. Our team made a presentation to the computer engineering classes which introduced the students to FIRST and its ideals, as well as giving them a basic understanding of the competition. We hope that after our presentation, students and teachers at Bishop Reding consider getting themselves involved in FIRST, and partaking in a life changing high school experience.

View the School Presentations 2011 photo album.
On June 1, the Tronic Titans hosted the First Annual FIRST Social at our school. We invited FRC and FLL teams in our area to come together and share what they had accomplished this year. This night also paid tribute to team 3663, The Sentinels, who won first place at the World Festival, as well as Dean's List Finalist Paul Fossenier from our team, and Dean's List Award Winner Nicholas Bandiera from the Red Devils. This night was a lot of fun, filled with presentations, robot test driving, karaoke and most importantly, time for people of different ages and from different teams to talk and learn new things from each other. The Tronic Titans plan for this event to grow and continue for years to come.

View the FIRST Social 2011 photo album.
On June 2, 2011, the Tronic Titans went to our schools carnival event for the community called "Titanfest". This event is a community barbecue, complete with games, raffles, sumo suits and bouncy castles. Our team sold cupcakes and raffled off a large cake that was decorated to look like a massive cupcake. We also took this great opportunity to talk to members of our community about FIRST, and the Tronic Titans. We brought out our robot, Eos, to show others what we have done and get them interested. As this is also a school event, we spoke with many fellow students about the team and hopefully got them interested in what we do.

View the TitanFest 2011 photo album.
On June 8th and 13th we visited Our Lady of Peace, and St. Michael’s, respectively, which are both feeder elementary schools to our high school. During these presentations, we introduced the students and teachers to FIRST, and the programs that they can become involved with.

We introduced the schools to FLL, informing the students and teachers about what was done in past years, and how the program benefits the work ethic of younger students. We hope that we can help them start teams of their own, which we can mentor.

We also introduced the schools to FRC, in hopes that students in the older grades and graduating students this year will want to go to a high school in our area that has an FRC team. We hope that the students and teachers at OLP and St. Michaels learned a lot about FIRST through our presentations and want to get involved with the organization.

View the School Presentations 2011 photo album.
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