FRC Team 1781 Community impact

Programs

Lindbot Curriculum

During the summer, Lindblom hosts a summer internship at the school.

Students learn how to design mini bots that will align with a curriculum where students will learn how to program and machine the bot themselves.

Manufacturing is done in-house, with our current Honors Robotics class creating tutorials on manufacturing, assembling, and programming.

NSBE Jr.

Lindblom’s National Society of Black Engineers Jr. board composes of veteran 1781 team members.

Host biweekly meetings that introduce students to different fields and aspects of engineering through activities and guest speakers. 

These meetings are open to students of all ages from various schools within our community. 

WiSTEM

Found and run by Halima Adegbite, a past Senior on Team 1781 during the Charged Up game season.

Monthly meetings allow students to speak with collegiate programs such as; SWE (Society of Women in Engineering) and SHPE ( Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers). 

The program is open to 7th-12th graders, and students who are part of our robotics program also present the robotics opportunity to the younger students.  

Students get hands-on experience with machinery and learn about the engineering design process.

Support Around Chicago

During the summer, our team helped start 6 FTC robotics teams:

Curie HS (19646)

Hancock HS (19648)

Bowen HS – 19649

CMAB – 9638

CVCA – 9654

Infinity – 19645

We hosted professional development for mentors and sessions on tool training and safety. 

Build Season Support

During the robotics season, our team also supports teams:

This season, we used our Baxter Innovation Lab to manufacture parts for various Chicago teams.

As leading members of the Chicago Robotics Alliance, we host annual conferences that teach scouting, coding, and building skills to other FRC teams.

Further Outreach

Custom Designed Parts Fabrication

For the first 14 years of our team, we struggled significantly with fabricating precision parts to build our designs. A lack of access to industry partners/sponsors with fabrication capabilities prevented us from creating precision parts which limited the abilities of our designs, a narrative all too familiar to under-resourced teams.  Thankfully, in 2018, with enormous help from Baxter, we built the Baxter Innovation Lab at Lindblom.  The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that has changed the design capabilities of our team.

For this reason, it is a primary goal of Lindblom Robotics to support parts fabrication for robotics teams throughout Chicagoland. In most cases, teams provide designs and materials that we use to manufacture the parts as quickly as possible.

Blue: FRC

Red: FTC

Yellow: 1781

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communal Practice Field

Every FRC season testing and refinement in a dynamic environment is key to the success of a team. In the Rapid React build season we partnered with several other schools in the Chicago robotics alliance to secure a space to set up and fully utilize our practice field for the testing of the robot. This in and of itself was a huge leap forward for the refinement of our mechanisms, and the collaboration with other teams.

With this, we could more accurately test our robot with the spacing and dynamic elements of the game features. We assigned most of our rookie freshmen to build the practice game components and structures from FRC-provided manuals found online.

As the build season progressed, we added more and more to the field and invited other teams in the Chicagoland area.