Central Park Steam Robotics Team, Inc.
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Mission Statement
Central Park STEAM Robotics Team is a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art & Math) education in the community.
About This Cause
The Central Park STEAM Robotics Team began as a school booster club originally promoting STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art & Math) education in the Central Park Elementary school. As our students and community have grown up and spread their wings across the world, our program has evolved with it. Our Past Work Central Park STEAM Robotics Team originally coined the name from a focus on robotics by supporting project-based-learning (PBL) through robotics activities. We taught free classes at lunch and after school to students of diverse socio-economic backgrounds for FIRST LEGO League Junior, FIRST LEGO League, Wonder League, VexIQ Challenge and the Hour of Code. We invested in loaner pool robotics equipment that families on free and reduced lunch could check out for free. We covered robotics competition registrations for low income families. We also provided free summer robotics camps for low income families. We expanded to follow student interest in Destination Imagination, Tech Challenge, Math Olympiad, Maker Faire, 3D design/printing, Sewing, Art, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Quest4Space, Exploravision, Machine Learning 4 Kids and more. We integrated PBL through securing Dairy Council presentations with cows and calves; WERC presentations with live owls, opossums, snakes; Beekeeper presentations with live beehives; Water Conservation presentations by Santa Clara Valley Water District, and field trips to places such as the Oroville Visitor Center, San Luis Reservoir Visitor Center, Pyramid Lake Visitor Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames and more. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we 3D printed personal protective equipment for workers in need who had less access to equipment. Boxes of PPE were shipped to Native American Indian support organizations, Filipino nurses associations, dental hygienists, social workers and custodians at hospitals. We won "Best in Class" at MakerFaire Bay Area 2017. We had an FLL team advance to the Top 20 FIRST Global Innovation Awards. We had FLL teams win 1st Place for Robot Game and Robot Design Award at Google. Our teams have won the Mechanical Design Award at the FLL Silicon Valley District Championship. Our teams have won the Champions Award in FLL at Monticello Academy and the Champions Award in FLL at Santa Teresa High School. Our teams have won the Robot Design Award in FLL at Intel. We had a team advance to the Destination Imagination State Championship. We had VexIQ Challenge teams win the Judge Awards at Quarry Lane. We had Vex VRC teams advance to state championship. We had two teams advance to the Wonder League finals. We have had a team run thermodynamics experiments on the International Space Station through Quest4Space. In 2017 we were recognized by United States Congressman Ro Khanna with a "Certificate for Special Congressional Recognition" in honor of our community service. Future As many founding families have spread across the nation and world, we have shifted towards community activities across many regions that promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math). Previous students have now become leaders of new initiatives. In the summer of 2023 one of our youth leaders formed an online team of students to participate in the MIT Zero Robotics challenge programming NASA's Astrobee robot on the International Space Station. The team placed 3rd in the first round qualifying them to be a leading team in the finals of the ISS live round where they finished in 4th place out of 56 teams.