Community and Outreach
Team Mission
"To help students find their pulse for life-long learning through a team culture that shares knowledge and gives back to the community"
Team 694 Within the School
Following our successful rookie year, Stuyvesant High School was inspired to start an “Intro to Robotics” class, taught by our very own head coach and mentor, Joseph Blay. Today, this course is still available to Juniors and Seniors, a perfect catalyst for spreading the message of FIRST and generating interest in the Robotics Team. The class was such a success that several schools considered the possibility of adding a similar course to their curriculums.
We often host robot demonstrations at alumni reunions at our school. This year, our team members gave our alumni tours of our robotics lab while updating them on what has been happening within our team. We were also able to demo our robot, Aunt Mary, allowing the alumni to see what we have been working on in the past year. We are glad that our alumni enjoyed our presentations and being back at the school.
Yet, 694 does not limit its demonstrations to just alumni to emphasize the importance of the robotics program. For 2025's Open House session, we showcased our 2025 robot, Aunt Mary, in front of hundreds of incoming freshmen and their parents. Through this, we hope that Robotics will become one of their reasons for choosing Stuyvesant, and that no matter where they go, they will spread the message of FIRST robotics.
Public Demonstrations
Over the years, Team 694 has been featured in numerous demonstrations and present through social media. In February of 2025, we were featured on the FRC Open Alliance show and filmed a video explaining our robot’s mechanisms and functions. FUN Robotics referred to us as an “FRC Team of the Week,” for our contributions towards Open Alliance. We participated in the alpha testing of SystemCore, in the summer of 2025, and presented our SystemCore discoveries at NYC Robo Replay, an offseason event, Stuysplash, and at NYC FIRST Kickoff. Our team has also done robot demos at the local senior center, which our members volunteer to help older adults with tech support. At NYC FIRST STEM Center, we displayed our 2024 offseason robot to students visiting from Japan as well as demoing smaller robots for Pre-K to 5 students. Our demos have impacted many students and piqued the interest of many to contribute in the different fields of robotics. schools.
FLL
For over two decades, StuyPulse has been committed to helping the next generation of students enter the world of robotics through FLL. Since the spring of 2001, we have inspired several schools to enter this program, and have educated kids in a variety of programs across and even outside of New York City, helping them take their first steps into thinking like an engineer. FLL remains one of the core ways that we spread STEM to young leaders.
In Brooklyn, we have hosted an FLL Challenge based program in Williamsburg for the past three years. In Bensonhurst, we hosted SPIKE Prime Based Summer Camps for the past 2 years, and mentored 4 total teams at Bensonhurst for the past two years.
In Manhattan, we have mentored an FLL Explore team in Battery Park City for three years.In Chinatown, we have hosted SPIKE Prime Based Summer Camps for the past two years. Additionally, we have hosted a summer program at MoMath in 2024.
Recently, we also briefly mentored Queens-based Team 4017, the RoboPandas, in preparation for their competition.
Our involvement in FLL extends overseas as we have mentored teams based in Puerto Rico since 2018.
Our FLL mentoring curriculums and program outlines are available in our Tutorials Tab .
Helping Out Other Teams
Team 694 is always ready to help out teams, whether it is during the hectic build season or at the competitions themselves. Throughout the years, we have visited other teams and invited them to our lab to share knowledge and experiences about safety, organization, fundraising, engineering and software engineering. Even during competitions, our team is ready to send members to help other teams with their robots, and cheer with them as they win awards or advance to the finals.
Bonding with members of other teams is welcoming others into our community and forming long-lasting friendships.
Resources
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