Melanie Temnycky of Deloitte, Augusta Sanfilippo of Citi, and Kabir Bindra of Deilotte pose in front of Nemesis’ booth with members Samantha Young, Laura Quon, Jared Glassband and Juhi Rajgopal.
FIRST Robotics teams pose with Citi employees and volunteers during Citi’s FIRST Robotics Event.
Nemesis’ Juhi Rajgopal and Jared Glasssband explain the team’s robots to an intrigued Citi volunteer.
Nemesis team members Juhi Rajgopal, Christian Gavalchin, Samantha Young, Jared Glassband, Laura Quon and Andrey Efremchev proudly stand by their display of robots and achievements.
On October 13, 2015 Warren’s Citi office opened up their doors to Robbinsville’s FIRST Robotics Team Nemesis 2590 and five other FIRST Robotics teams from the area to showcase their robots and accomplishments to hundreds of Citi employees and executives.
Individuals including former Mid-Atlantic Robotics President Gene O’Brien, representative of the FIRST-founding Kamen family Libby Kamen and Nemesis’ very own Build Team Executive and senior Samantha Young spoke to a crowd of Citi employees, high school students and young visitors. Each speaker discussed the importance of investing in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and the lifelong rewards of programs such as FIRST Robotics.
The remainder of the day was devoted to an engaging interaction between STEM-oriented high school students and the professionals who currently fulfill the STEM mission in their daily lives.
In addition to the NAO robot, Nemesis brought their 2014 and 2015 competition robots to the Citi offices. Throughout the day, attendees were certain to stop by Nemesis’ booth and perform a touch of tai chi or dance along to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with the NAO robot. Students enjoyed sharing stories of what they learned about building robots, writing business plans, working with limited time and resources and participating on a team. FIRST conditions its students to become productive and meaningful global citizens, a fact on full display at Citi.
Within the venue, Citi constructed half of the 2015 competition field for the attending teams to give demonstrations of their robots competing in the 2015 season game Recycle Rush. The robots stacked plastic totes as quickly as possible, capped their stacks with recycling containers, and carefully placed plastic pool noodles, representing litter, inside the recycling containers.
Nemesis is incredibly grateful to Citi for their continuous support and generosity.
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