Project Description Country: USA Location: Ketchikan, Alaska Total Budget: $4,500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: Upgrade, repair, and/or replacement of robots for the teams in the Ketchikan, Alaska Elementary Lego Robotics league. Recruitment of coaches and mentors to restart/revitalize the robotics teams at several of the local elementary schools. Funds are needed in the upcoming school year to upgrade, repair, and/or replace the robots for each active team in the Ketchikan, Alaska Lego Robotics league. Funds would also be used to add more teams in the local schools because several schools no longer offer robotics. Fawn Mountain, Houghtaling, Point Higgins, and Tongass School of Arts and Sciences have been identified as elementary school locations where teams are needed. Recruitment of coaches and mentors would be a part of the process, and a portion of funds would be put towards incentives for recruitment/retention of coaches and mentors. A portion of the funds would also be used to purchase trophies for the Elementary Robotics Tournament at the end of the season. Members of the Rotary Club of Ketchikan would be involved at all steps of the process from providing teams with their new equipment to recruitment of coaches to participating as volunteers at the Robotics Tournament. Interested members of the club could potentially serve in the coaching/mentorship roles for the various teams. Competent engineers are needed for the future of our society, and Lego Robotics teaches children the building blocks. Project Contact Person District: 5010 Rotary Club of: Ketchikan Primary Contact: Stuart Whyte Email: stuart@krbd.org Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2019-20 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Ketchikan (5010) 20-Apr-19 $3,000 $1,500 $4,500 Total $3,000 $1,500 $4,500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [5-Oct-21] Final Report [3-Sep-21] Payment of grant funds to Ketchikan Robotics Club [17-Apr-20] Robotics League Draft Grant Proposal

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History Log Entries 20-Apr-19 by Stuart Whyte System Entry: Creation of project page. 20-Apr-19 by Vivian Finlay System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 23-Apr-19 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Stuart Whyte. 23-Apr-19 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Chelsea Goucher. 24-Apr-19 by Alex Slivka System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 1-Nov-19 by Stuart Whyte Draft proposal for Robotics Grant submitted by organizers Lori Ortiz and Jen Whicker. See Documents page for a copy of the proposal. 26-Nov-19 by Stuart Whyte Presentation to club by Lori Ortiz and 3 students involved in the K-Town Robotics program. Presentation included info about solutions, robot design, and core values (similar to Rotary principles). Involvement with elementary schools and assistance with coaching were requested. Club members gave one the spot donations of $200 that the group plans to use for team startup costs. Our inbound exchange student is interested in being involved with a coding day. 23-Jan-20 by Debra Mason System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 29-Jun-20 by Stuart Whyte All funds ($4,500) paid out to Ketchikan Robotics Club to proceed with completing all parts of their previously submitted plan. Part 4 involving bringing a trainer in to work with the teams will most likely be revised to be an online training due to COVID-19. (See separate uploaded photo of the passoff of the check to Robotic Club representative, Lori Ortiz.) 11-Mar-21 by Stuart Whyte Update from Robotics organizer Lori Ortiz: As you can imagine, Ketchikan Robotics was largely put on hold this year. PACE, our partners, were not allowed to do any in-person clubs this year. We alerted the Charter School robotics club teacher that he could order a new kit and a computer to update his program, but his school didn't run robotics either. Fast Track persevered. We have 2 teams, a grade 4-6 team and a grade 7-8 team. We will be in a small virtual tournament in April making the best show we can. We have 11 students still carrying the torch for robotics in this Covid year and it has been SO fun! We have deposited the grant money into our community robotics fund managed by PACE, so the plan is to pick up where we left off last year. I'm happy to write a summary of our activities. 23-Apr-21 by Stuart Whyte Competition and presentation day for the robotics teams. Rotary 2000 members Mike Harpold and Stuart Whyte participated in the event as judges. Photos added to the photos tab. 5-Oct-21 by Stuart Whyte System Entry: Final Report signed by Stuart Whyte. 5-Oct-21 System Entry System Entry: Final Report signed by Chelsea Goucher. 7-Oct-21 by Paul Paslay System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.