Welcome to the GEARED UP: Mentor Conference, where innovation meets inspiration!
Join us on May 11, 2024, from 9 am to 4 pm at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Building 201, for a day filled with knowledge-sharing, networking, and empowerment.
This conference is proudly presented by Aramco America and aims to equip mentors with the tools and insights needed to effectively guide an increasingly diverse generation of students.
Making a difference in your community is more than one or two robotics teams. We will show how an ecosystem of robotics in our small town of 20,000, plus the larger area of Roanoke-Blacksburg (300,000), can build community awareness so that families and companies keep FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, a world-wide competitive robotics non-profit) top-of-mind, from casual encounters to lifelong participants.