During my time at SUNY Poly, besides running the social media for Team 5030, I worked with the school’s marketing department. Since I worked with the K-12 department on all STEM events, and in admissions, I would routinely work on content for the universities social media channels, especially pertaining to the robotics programs. Our outreach programs intertwined constantly, as I was looking to get more local students involved in my robotics programs, and they were trying to reach a wider audience of prospective students to attend the university.
A few posts relating to 5030 and the Central New York Regional.
In the Fall of 2017, I joined the planning committee for the Central New York Regional for FRC. A part of my responsibility for the event was marketing and outreach, including building a webpage for the new event. I also promoted the event across social media and in the forums to keep people up to date and created a community for the event, leading to an increase in our volunteers for the events.
The first photo is from the 2018 CNY Regional webpage I built from scratch to showcase the event, this page served as the information hub for the event, providing resources to parents, students, volunteers, and sponsors. (I created the 2019 page before I graduated, and never had a chance to properly archive it.) The archived 2018 page can be found here.
The next photo is of the FRC page on SUNY Poly’s website, which showcases Team 5030 and provides resources for anyone looking to learn more about our program. The page can be found here. (I had worked on more pages, including the other robotics programs and the K-12 department, but they have since stopped being run at SUNY Poly and are now run by MVCC and the pages I made are no longer available.)
The last photo is from a press release I worked on with the communication director after the CNY Regional in 2018 about our team winning the event and moving on to the world championship event in Detroit. The press release can be found here.
Every year the SUNY System holds a Mascot Madness on social media. School mascots are pitted against each other in a March Madness-style bracket and the community votes on which schools should move on. In 2019 I worked with the social media department at SUNY Poly and created this visual bracket that would be updated and posted each week and created again for 2021 initially until someone at SUNY made their own version for social.