First Lego League

On April 11th and 12th of 2025, Team 1225 helped set up and run a FIRST Lego League (FLL) competition at North Henderson High School. First Lego League is a competition for 5th to 8th graders to complete certain tasks by programming and building a robot made of Lego parts.

This event helps expose young students to STEM and give them basic experience in programming and building. Team 1225 helped with refereeing in the event, as well as scorekeeping and helping manage competing teams. Team 1225 also helped set up the venue, and demonstrated their robot at the competition for students to see.

PARI Open House

On April 26th in 2025, Team 1225 went to the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. At PARI, visitors would tour the building and learn about many technologies that were used at the previous NASA building. Team 1225 was a part of the tour, and demonstrated their robot and explained its composition to many who asked about it, as well as the competition and what tasks it was designed to do. Team 1225 also demonstrated robots made out of legos and explained to many interested children and adults how they worked. There was also a Sphero demonstration that was extremely popular among children, involving driving the Sphero around and illustrating how to efficiently code it for effective results.

High School Demos

Team 1225 has demonstrated their robot to multiple high schools within the county. These demos were initiated, organized, and led by students. They helped promote the robotics team to students and teachers while teaching robotics students important leadership skills. These schools include West Hendersonville High School and Hendersonville High School.

SCRIW Event

On October 11th of 2025, Team 1225 went to the SCRIW robotics event in Columbia South Carolina to participate in an informal robotics competition. Our robot had performed well and synergized great with other teams at the competition.