Category Archives: Outreach

Outreach

Nevada County Student Hackathon

ACME Robotics, in collaboration with Nevada County Tech Connection, is pleased to present the Nevada County Student Hackathon!

In this 8 hour, free event students in middle and high school will design and program a video game using Scratch, JavaScript, Python, or whatever coding language you prefer! Students will work as teams to finish the challenge. This event includes a introduction to programming workshop at the beginning of the day and no coding knowledge or experience is required! At the end of the day, teams will present their game and have the chance to win awards. Lunch will be provided. If you are interested, please register for this event by following the link below. We hope to see you there!

When: March 30, 2019

Time: 9 A.M. – 5 P.M.

For: Middle and High School students interested in programming (no experience required)

Where: 104 New Mohawk Dr. Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration: http://bit.ly/AcmeHackathon

Contact: goacmerobotics@gmail.com

Coachs Corner, Outreach, Robotics Camp

2018 LEGO Robotics Camp

LEGO Robotics Camp

ACME ROBOTICS (8367) is planning to offer a LEGO Robotics camp again in summer 2018. We are in the planning stages for the camp, but we have opened up the camp waiting list and you can sign up now to get on the waiting list and be informed first about the details.

boy with robot

To signup for the waiting list, simply send an email to: camp@goacmerobotics.com

Full details are on the 2018 LEGO Robotics Camp page.

The camp structure will likely be similar to last summer. A 5 day camp (half days), somewhere in Grass Valley or Nevada City CA. Cost will be similar to last year (~$125 per camper). We are also going to reduce the number of campers per robotics kit to enhance the experience for the campers (based on feedback from last year).

Campers will learn how to build and program a LEGO Mindstorm-based robot and then create a robot to compete in a competition at the end of the week. We want to encourage the creation of FIRST LEGO LEAGUE robotics teams at all of the various local elementary and middle schools next fall, so this will be a great way to learn about LEGO Mindstorms and see if robotics competition is something you’d like to experience!

ACME Robotics also recruited two attendees from the 2017 LEGO Robotics camp to join the ACME team. So it’s also a great way to check out the ACME team and determine if you’d like to join us next season!

Sponsor the camp!

Local businesses: We are offering an opportunity to sponsor the camp and help defray the costs (and reduce the camper fees). If you’d like to discuss sponsorship opportunities, send an email to camp@goacmerobotics.com or contact Mike Oitzman (email below)

Outreach

Generation Start-Up: Update

Our private showing of Generation Start-Up was shown at our local movie theater in Grass Valley, the Del Oro, on August 24.

The showing was very successful, with lots of people from the community attending.  We had a chance to display our robot in the theater lobby and answer questions people had about our team.  After the showing we gave a short presentation and answered several questions from the audience.

Based on the small town we live in, the turnout was excellent.  We had a chance to let people know about our team and what we do.  Overall, it was well worth it.  Now the community knows more about us and can tell others too.  It is definitely something the team will consider doing again!

Outreach

Generation Startup Movie

ACME Robotics is proud to present an exclusive one night screening of the movie Generation Startup.

​GENERATION STARTUP captures the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it’s an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, the film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action—with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country’s economic future is at stake.

​WHEN: Aug 24, 2017

Where: Del Oro Theater, Grass Valley CA

TIME: 6:30 PM

​Cost: $11

You can purchase a ticket online. Note that we have to pre-sell ​a certain number of tickets to have the event, so please support us by buying early.

NOTE: After the screening, the ACME team members will come on stage for a short presentation about their upcoming season and to host a Q&A session.

All proceeds go to help fund the upcoming 2017-2018 season for ACME Robotics.​​ Please come out and support the team! Thank you.