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2022 Build Season/Competition Season Update #1: GPR!
Our team’s first regional of the 2022 season was the Greater Pittsburgh Regional (GPR), March 17-19, 2022; it was three jam packed days of high spirit and competitiveness. On day one of competition, there were 42 practice matches, where we participated in five of them. This was a great way to ease our team…
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Girls of Steel x COVIDcast: Update #3
Current Project Activities: Our team is still checking for data anomalies and reporting them to the Delphi team. One of the indicators we are now monitoring is hospital admissions. Across all of the indicators, if we come across a bug, we will comment on it in a sheet, and then have the opportunity to discuss…
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Girls of Steel 2022 InvenTeam: Update #4
After being virtual for the month of January, we met back in person on February 5th! During February we dedicated most of our time towards the Mid-Grant Technical Review (MGTR), an in-person and broadcasted showcase on February 26th. We invited experts we’ve spoken with, parents of children on the autism spectrum, local school representatives, and…
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2021 The Girls of Steel Year in Review
Now that it’s 2022 and we are finally moving forward again with in-person meetings and building two (2!) robots, check out the highlights of our accomplishments from 2021. Again, Girls of Steel lived up to their reputation of representing Rosie the Riveter, delivering high quality programs to our community. January All the FIRST competitions for…
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Girls of Steel 2022 InvenTeam: Update #3
We went virtual in January, but that didn’t slow us down! A lot of time last month went into preparing for our Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Mid-Grant Technical Review (MGTR) coming up on February 26th. All our team members have made a plan for their MGTR booth and designed materials such as presentations and posters. We have…
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2021-2022 FRC Preseason Update #2
This past year has been anything but uneventful for the Girls of Steel. As we head into the second half of our 12th season, many of our subteams have had major accomplishments. After a series of workshops over the summer, the FLL subteam is wrapped up their FLL Challenge season in December, but next up…
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Girls of Steel 2021 FLL Challenge: Cargo Connect
For the second year in a row we ran the Girls of Steel FLL Challenge program on Zoom, but this year our mentors were able to meet in person at the Girls of Steel Robotics Practice Field starting on October 23rd where they had access to LEGO Spike Prime robot kits and the 2021…
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Girls of Steel 2022 InvenTeam: Update #2
Happy New Year from the Girls of Steel BuzzBand team! Not a moment of December went to waste, and we’ve made huge progress on both the business and technical aspects of the BuzzBand. Here is the video update we shared at the InvenTeams Open House on December 9th. After BuzzBand’s press release last month, we…
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Season 2 of Rosie Talks!
After seeing such success with our Rosie Talks webinar series last year, we decided to bring it back for round 2 or season 2. If you aren’t familiar, Rosie Talks is a webinar series that aims to introduce and celebrate the experiences and accomplishments of girls and women involved in STEM from across the Pittsburgh…
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Girls of Steel FTC 9820 and 9821: 2021-2022 Update #2 Team Progress
Throughout the last month, since the last time we posted, we have made much progress! On our robots, we have made many plans and measurements about what attachments we are going to add that will help us gain more points during the Freight Frenzy game. We have also begun the construction of our robots,…