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Local FIRST Students Featured on Fox 8 News
Posted on Oct 3, 2022 by J. Bradshaw
Daneala Moreno, a local high school robotics student and immigrant from Ecuador talks with reporters about her team’s global Community Service project to make prosthetic hands for children – Image credit. Fox8 News
Students from the FIRST® Robotics Competition team at Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School were recently featured on Fox 8 News for their involvement in a Global Community Service Project that is changing lives both here in Cleveland and abroad.
Sophomores Yariselle Andujar and Daneala Moreno from Team #8222 (the Argonauts) were interviewed by Fox 8 News reporter Stacey Frey about their involvement in a student-led program to create prosthetic hands for children. “At the end of the 2022 robotics season, we were challenged by our mentors to think of ways to use what we had learned while building robots, to make our communities and the world a better place,” explains Yariselle, the Team Lead and official spokesperson for the group project.
After learning about the plight of a 12-year-old girl in Ecuador who lost the use of both arms after a serious bus accident, Yariselle and fellow teammate Daneala, who immigrated to the United States from Ecuador four years ago, approached their team, and the team members from the other three Cleveland area FRC teams with a plan to use their new-found expertise in computer-aided design and 3D-printing to engineer a solution for this little girl and her family.
Word of their project quickly spread and now the students are working on the weekends to make prosthetic hands for families with limited financial resources here in Cleveland and in developing countries around the world. Click HERE to see the recording of the original Fox 8 News broadcast.
SEASON CALENDAR
AT A GLANCE
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PRE-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
September 20-21, 2024
Kettering University
1700 University Ave.,
Flint MI 48504
2024 Curiosity Open Robotics Challenge
September 28, 2024
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
Hands Across Borders Build Sessions
2nd Saturday of the Month
(10 AM - 4 PM, Sept thru Dec)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
October 27, 2024 (9 AM - 1 PM)
Worthington Kilbourne High School
1499 Hard Rd,
Columbus, OH 43235
November 16, 2024 (9 AM- 4 PM)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
CNC Basics for Beginners (Workshop)
December 14, 2024 (10 AM- 1 PM)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
2025 REGULAR SEASON ACTIVITIES
January 4, 2025
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
Weekly Build & Practice Sessions
Meeting days, times, and locations vary by team. Click the link above to see the tentative schedules for all supported teams.
March 13 - March 15, 2025 (Week 3)
Gordon Field House & Activities Ctr., Rochester Institute of Technology
149 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
March 20 - March 22, 2025 (Week 4)
David L. Lawrence Convention Center 1000 Fort Dequense Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
March 27 – March 29, 2025 (Week 5)
Cintas Center, Xavier University
1624 Musketeer Drive.
Cincinnati, OH 45207
April 3 – April 5, 2025 (Week 6)
Wolstein Center, Cleveland State University
2000 Prospect Avenue E.
Cleveland, OH 44115
April 16 - April 19, 2025
George R Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
2025 Student Recognition & VIP Awards Dinner
April 24, 2025
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
OFF-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
2025 Ohio State Championship
(Date TBD)
Worthington Kilbourne High School
1499 Hard Rd,
Columbus, OH 43235
2025 Shawshank Showdown
(Date TBD)
Mansfield Senior High School
124 N. Linden Road
Mansfield, OH 44906
2025 GLSC Robotics Initiative Summer Program (Internship)
June 17 - July 25, 2025 (Tentative)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
2025 Med Access International Humanitarian Medical Mission
July 24 - August 3, 2025
Hospital General Latacunga
Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province
Republic of Ecuador
