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FIRST Long Island

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FIRST Long Island is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring Long Island youth in STEM through robotics competitions for kids ages 4-18.
During my tenure as the social media manager for FIRST Long Island, I have developed and cultivated a dedicated community of STEM students, mentors, and volunteers. I have seen a 40% increase in engagement and a 50% increase in followers since I started running the accounts.
Besides running the social media account, I work on our graphic design and as a photographer during our FRC Competitions.

Canon

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During my time at Canon, I designed and scheduled over 20 posts per week across the social media accounts of Canon USA, Canon Solutions, and Canon Careers, targeting 8 different subgroups. The former Canon Solutions accounts have since been merged into Canon USA, and their main account has a greater focus on post-alignment with Canon products and software. A large focus with Canon Solutions besides posting and keeping branding consistent across 6 groups, and optimizing ad campaigns on Linkedin, which led to a 40% increase in leads, and a 70% increase in watch time.

New York FIRST

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New York FIRST is a non-profit running and overseeing the FIRST Robotics Competition teams and events across New York. While assisting in starting the social media accounts, I also worked on communication with teams, creating flyers and content to share as well as creating the New York FIRST Alumni Network. Within a few weeks of starting the Instagram account, multiple posts had over 10k views.

Alumni Network

Robotics Social Media

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Since 2014, I have run multiple social media accounts, working with high school students on the robotics programs I mentor. Teaching the students how to design content for each platform, including graphic design, photography, web design, and video production. We built a professional presence, worked with our sponsors, and read and understand metrics and trends. Besides the social media accounts I run with students, I have also engaged in the robotics forums providing resources, data analytics/visualizations, a build blog, and a line of communication for events and updates for the state. Through the community engagement aspects we have gained sponsorship opportunities, and more recognition for our programs. Programs include FIRST Teams 353, 358, 5030, and 9016. 5030 was the program I started in 2014 and helped run up until it shut down from covid. During the time I built 2 different websites for the team, 2017 5030 website and 2018 version.

SUNY Poly

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During my time at SUNY Poly, besides running team 5030, I worked on social media marketing for K-12 and STEM events. For 2018 and 2019 we hosted the Central New York Regional, bringing in thousands of students, mentors, and volunteers from 10 states and 4 countries. (The event was canceled in 2020 because of covid and hasn’t returned yet.) Working on the marketing included making the highlight video, posting content leading up to and during the event, and creating the websites associated with the event and our team. An old instance of the SUNY Poly FIRST website.

Robotics Resources

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Over the last decade, I have created countless resources for robotics students and the community at large. One of the largest includes the Grant Database, which lists nearly 100 grant and sponsorship opportunities for robotics teams to apply to. The second version of the database is currently being built, as a much more intuitive website, with more ways for the community to participate with more resources to build out.

I have also worked on countless CAD models, for my projects or assisting other programs which have helped inspire other students. Lately, I have been working on data visualization projects, including a heatmap, and survey results to help people better understand surveys or topics relevant to the robotics community. Our 2025 Build Blog provided a behinds the seen look to our robot build this year.