Events

OUTREACH

FLL (FIRST LEGO League) Qualifier and Championship

M.O.R.T. gives back to FIRST by hosting the FIRST Lego League qualifying event and the FIRST Lego League championship event our Local FIRST Mid-Atlantic district.

M.O.R.T. members volunteer as queue runners, judge assistants, and referees!

These events give our team the opportunity to demonstrate tour community throughout our state about robotics and FIRST. Hundreds of children and adults attend this fun and engaging tournament and learn about different robot teams and designs. This event strongly inspires many of these young students to join a FIRST team in their town.

The Mount Olive Carnival

This Carnival has always been a M.O.R.T. event tradition. Located in Turkey Brook Park right next to our high school, we request a spot annually. We receive stage time to give a demonstration of our robots (M.O.R.T. and M.O.R.T. Beta) as well as a brief rundown of our team.

Afterwards, we invited both the children and parents to come up on the stage for a closer look and to ask any questions they might have.

Many of the parents expressed their interest in out team and explained their excitement about their children getting involved with FIRST.

M.O.R.T. always enjoys being able to make a positive impact on students and members of our community, exciting them about the opportunities offered to them in the field of STEAM!

The Mount Olive Fairies and Pirates Festival

Yearly we showcase our robot and invite children to engage with the game elements and ask questions. We look forward to doing these events again next year!

SCIENCE FAIRS:

Every year, members of M.O.R.T. volunteer at the Mount Olive District Science Fairs.

The science fairs, hosted by each of the elementary schools in Mount Olive, manifest STEAM education and encourage students to present their experiments. M.O.R.T. participates by volunteering to judge the children’s experiments. Moreover, they invigorate STEAM by demonstrating the robot and its capabilities.