RESOURCES
A Message from our Former Governor
100%
Of our program is funded solely through sponsorship.
200+
Hours of Community Service has been serviced to our Community/State Anually
$250,000+
Must be raised each school year in order to participate in Robotics.
Sustainability Plan
Partnerships have been established with an ever-growing list of sponsors to help offset sponsorships lost (especially due to the COVID-19 Pandemic). A large emphasis of our outreach program is looking to help other programs/teams in addition to ensuring the sustainability of our own program, feeder programs/schools, and relationships with our partners. This includes participating in service projects for our community/businesses, participating in sponsorship activities, coordinating tours of our Robotics program, helping young children and the elderly, and coordinating joint-venture benefit fundraisers, performing public demonstrations, while advocating the mission of FIRST through many forms of public media.
Engineering Inspiration
The Inspiring Future Engineers binder comprises six different parts: profile, program, outreach, sustainability, impact, and appendix. The first section, profile, describe the location and community of Team 359. The program discusses the STEM Learning Center syllabus for the current school year. The outreach section goes over current and past outreach events the team has volunteered at within the community. The impact segment details how Team 359 has changed and influenced the individual student, the Waialua community, and Hawaii’s overall state. Lastly, the binder’s final section is the appendix, which features the various times the Hawaiian Kids have been featured within newspapers and magazines like The Honolulu Star Advertiser, North Shore News, etc.
Technical Binder
The technical binder serves as a document that allows for our team to document and follow each build season with an approach that helps guide us to a successful and innovative season lead by student leaders. Team 359 follows a set of critical attributes to manufacture a robot during the build season successfully. By following the Engineering Design Process, we can promote collaboration and produce quality mechanisms. Along with being prepared at all times, being mindful of each week’s time periods, paying close attention to detail, and consistently enforcing effective communication between all sub-teams. This allows us to create a technical binder for other teams and judges to learn about our robot.
Team Branding
This acts as our teams style guide. We use these guidelines in all of our media and team representation to ensure we stay faithful to our mission.
