COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Off season and every chance in-between, FRC Team 3494 - The Quadrangles is active volunteering and spreading awareness about the great potential of STEM through demonstrations and presentations throughout Monroe County.

FIRST® Lego League: Many of our team members have volunteered as high school mentors on several FIRST® Lego League teams here in Bloomington, IN. We have lent our support to several local teams over the years: Harvey Hawkbots, B-town Bots, West-Side Rollers, Hoosier Girlz, and Lakeview Lions. For more information about FLL, visit firstlegoleague.org

Annual Team Crane Science Fair: Open to all students statewide, grades 6-12 held at the WestGate Academy Conferencing and Training Center in Odon, IN. The Quadrangles and ICE Robotics provide a robot demonstration and discuss FIRST and our teams with the participants.

Annual Team Crane STEM Career Open House: Various departments at Crane have demonstrations about the work they do, attended by about 600 rural high school students from surrounding schools. The Quadrangles and ICE Robotics provide a robot demonstration and discuss FIRST and our teams with the participants.

Local Middle School Demonstrations: FRC Robot demonstration. Team and Robot parts presentation. Jackson Creek Middle School, Batchelor Middle School, and St. Charles Catholic School.

Makevention: "A celebration of the Bloomington, IN Maker Community" including  inventors, tinkers, artists, engineers, etc. Robot Demonstration. For more information, visit makevention.org

Kiwanis Balloon Festival: Hosted by the Kiwanis Club of South Central Indiana, this event features hot air balloons and other festivities. We have done FIRST, SeaPerch, and VEX robot demonstrations since the first event in 2013.