From June 16-20 and 23-27, 2025, Team Neutrino the second annual youth summer camps for 4-5th and 6-8th graders to participate in a mock FIRST LEGO League (FLL) season. Through this camp, FLL Blastoff, we inspire kids to join the thriving FLL community in Ames and pursue STEM in the future. Members of Team Neutrino spent countless hours planning and preparing for FLL Blastoff, even through the intensive build and competition seasons. We also dedicated Outreach Camp to train camp leaders and volunteers, ensuring a well-executed camp where students learn how to build a LEGO Spike Prime robot and code it to complete missions.

This year, we chose the 2019 FLL game, CityShaper, challenging campers to complete various missions with their robot such as lowering a LEGO crane and moving LEGO buildings. The campers loved the bridge mission, which created a unique opportunity to interact with the team at the table across from them. Their robots could collide, and even fall off the bridge! This led to an effort to create the best mechanism to push robots off, or protect their robot from attack! On the final day, we ran 3-5 actual matches, giving the campers an opportunity to see their hard work in action during a mock FLL competition.

We can’t wait for the next FLL season this fall!

At Outreach Camp on June 9, 11, and 13th, members of Team Neutrino prepared to host FLL Blastoff, a youth robotics summer camp. Members learned the schedule, rubric, and curriculum of the upcoming camp, participating in short quizzes and activities to enforce their learning. Additionally, members were familiarized with the 2019 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) game, CityShaper, by learning the rules, missions, and how to score points. Members who weren’t attending FLL Blastoff worked on building mission models for the camp.

On May 23rd, 2025, Team Neutrino attended the annual CelebrAsian event in Des Moines! Reaching over 200 people, Team Neutrino showcased the robot’s new features to the community, such as the elevator and scoring mechanism. This event allowed our team to get involved within the community and bring the world of STEM to a wider audience. We had a lot of fun exploring the event and enjoying delicious food!

On April 26, 2025, Team Neutrino went to the Science Center of Iowa to teach a soldering workshop and demonstrate our robot. This was a great opportunity to share our teams’ projects such as our FLL Blastoff! summer camp and broaden our reach to more STEM interested communities. There, we collaborated with #6419 FRC Team ICE, #18050 FTC Team Photon, #16736 FTC Atomic Narwhals, and other FLL teams within our community to share FIRST’s mission and demonstrate it at all levels.