diff --git a/SR2020/2019-09-13-volunteer-outreach.md b/SR2020/2019-09-13-volunteer-outreach.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d60d0a --- /dev/null +++ b/SR2020/2019-09-13-volunteer-outreach.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +to: External organisations +subject: Help run a Robotics competition for 16-18 year olds +--- + +Hi, + +I'm writing to you on behalf of [Student Robotics][srobo], a nationwide charity that promotes STEM through an annual robotics competition for teams of 16-18 year olds. + +We're entirely volunteer run and were wondering if any your societies members might be interested in becoming SR volunteers. + +# What is Student Robotics + +Student Robotics was founded in 2006 by a group of students at Southampton University and has since run 12 competitions with the SR2019 having 37 teams in total, from around the UK and one from Germany. + +Teams of students are given some robotics kits and the rules of a game at a 'Kickstart' event and over 6 months they must build, test and refine their fully autonomous robot before competing in a two-day competition. + +# What does volunteering look like? (Mentor, plan, help competition etc.) + +Volunteering for Student Robotis can involve a wide variety of tasks from events organisation, to kit development, to mentoring students, to just turning up to be a pair of hands at the events. Our volunteers are able to spend as much or as little time doing SR tasks as they wish. + +# How to join (volunteer link on the website (does that send out welcome introducing to Slack + GitHub?)) + +[srobo]: https://studentrobotics.org