Capitol City Robotics

🌟 That's a Wrap! 🌟 The 2023-2024 Competitive Robotics season has officially come to a close! We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our incredible students, dedicated staff, and our main sponsors, WilmerHale and Society for Information Management, for making this our most successful season ever. With record-breaking tournament victories—our students won 58 trophies this season—one can only imagine the impact we’ve had on our 250+ students, from PK to 12th grade! Check out our Impact Report to see how we've influenced our students, not only in the competitive science world, but also through #STEM events, scholarships, pathways, and pipelines. 📊 See our Impact Report Here: https://lnkd.in/eJY_Phvu But we’re not stopping here—our plans for the next season are even bigger and bolder! We’re gearing up for new programs, exciting partnerships, and groundbreaking changes. Stay tuned, because the best is yet to come! Let’s make the 2024-2025 season our greatest adventure yet! #STEMeducation #FutureEngineers #STEAM #Robotics #GirlsinSTEM Ella Harris Elly Donalies Anna Richgels Ahava Wu Michael Daza Kamryn Kaye Helen Alexander-Fettus Luisa Orellana-Castillo

We are incredibly proud of our Capitol City Robotics students, Luisa Orellana-Castillo and Michael Daza. This past weekend, they participated in an invaluable experience on Capitol Hill with the Student Association for STEM Advocacy. Alongside many peers from the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation and FIRST Robotics, they spent two days training with students from across the USA. They honed their skills in STEM advocacy, gained insights into the workings of House committees, and learned effective communication strategies with their (non-voting!) representative, Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton. Luisa and Michael passionately dedicated themselves to this initiative, understanding the critical importance of STEM for our District, our nation, and, very importantly, the Defense of our Nation. Their commitment and enthusiasm are truly inspiring! #SASANAC2024 #LatinosinSTEM #GirlsinSTEM #STEMadvocacy

🎉 Huge congratulations to the incredible students and program managers of Capitol City Robotics, Ella Harris and Elly Donalies, for their outstanding achievements both on and off the #robotics field! We are thrilled to announce that they have been selected for The Wendy Martinez Legacy Project Foundation Memorial Coding Scolarship by FiscalNote, an incredible opportunity to pursue their dreams in #STEM while honoring the legacy of Wendy K Martinez. This recognition highlights their hard work, dedication, and the bright future that lies ahead. Here’s to more success and innovation—forward! 🚀✨ #GirlsinSTEM #FiscalNote #scholarships #wendyslegacy

🚀 Eight Months! 🚀 At Capitol City Robotics, we celebrate More Than Robotics. Over the past eight months, our 32 elementary students dove deep into the world of the VEX GO Robotics Competition. But it's about more than just building robots; it's about fostering workforce skills and cultivating leaders. Behind every team was a dedicated student #mentor, guiding them through engineering challenges, coding hurdles, and honing their presentation skills for that all-important first competition interview. Our programs are not just about participation; they are about empowerment. I'm incredibly proud to say that all our programs are female and student-run. Helen Alexander-Fettus, a VEX V5 RC high school robotics student, took the helm as program manager. Throughout the season, she led with gusto, training interns and mentors, maintaining open lines of communication with parents, and tirelessly refining our program to perfection. Capitol City Robotics isn't just about building robots; it's about shaping future #STEM leaders. We're not just teaching skills; we're instilling the confidence to lead, innovate, communicate, delegate, and embrace failure as part of the learning process. Helen, your remarkable achievements this season have not gone unnoticed. Thank you for your dedication, leadership, and unwavering commitment to empowering the next generation of STEM leaders. Here's to many more milestones and successes ahead! 🌟 #Mentorship #STEMLeaders #GirlsinSTEM #VEXGOCompetition #VEXRobotics #RECFoundation #VEXGO

I am happy to share a proud moment from one of our Capitol City Robotics team 17760E, the Bobabots! 🤖🎉 Catch us and Kaitlyn McGrath on WUSA9 News as we rocked the booth at the WNBA Mystics game, spreading the theme of Demystifying STEM! 🏀 Our girls wowed the crowd with our robot and conducted live demonstrations, showcasing that #STEM is inclusive and for everyone! A huge shoutout to Monumental Sports & Entertainment for providing this incredible platform for our team to inspire the next generation. Thank you for elevating these young minds to give back and make a difference! 🌟 #GirlsinSTEM #WUSA9 #WNBA #WashingtonMystics

I'm thrilled to announce the incredible achievements of Capitol City Robotics team 17760V, famously known as the Glowing Chickens! 🌟🤖 After 9 months of relentless dedication, countless hours of cataloguing, coding, and engineering, coupled with numerous setbacks and failures, our team has returned triumphantly from the VEX World Robotics Championship, the pinnacle of robotics competitions worldwide! These amazing girls overcome every STEM challenge thrown their way and clinched the coveted Build Award in the middle school division for their outstanding robot engineering prowess and their ability to scientifically articulate every step of their mechanical engineering design process. None of this would have been possible without the support of our partners. A heartfelt shoutout goes to FiscalNote, Girls In Technology (GIT), and our main sponsor, WilmerHale. Your invaluable support and encouragement played a pivotal role in empowering these young minds to reach such remarkable heights. This victory not only signifies our team's exceptional talent and hard work but also highlights the limitless potential of girls in #STEM. Together, we're breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation of innovators. 🚀 #RoboticsChampions #STEMExcellence #GirlsinSTEM #Innovation #VEXWorlds #RECFoundation