Waialua Robotics

Team 359 strives to transform the culture of our diverse and historically underserved rural community by providing and preparing students to compete and succeed in post-secondary STEM Education opportunities. Team 359 aims to spread the message of FIRST with a global vision, impacting as many individuals, teams, and programs as possible. Our approach is participation in community events, utilization of media, and international collaboration with our Hawaii State Government, Friends of Waialua Robotics, and other local, national, and international teams. Team 359’s long-term sustainability plan engages students in real-world STEM experiences and workplace readiness skills. We not only focus on ensuring that our team will have the funding to finance various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)-related and non-STEM-related programs in our school, community, and state. Furthermore, our success in sustainability has allowed us to extend our resources to other teams and STEM-related programs around the world and establish a scholarship program that will assist 100% of our eligible graduating members in becoming leaders of tomorrow.