Goals & Values

About the Pink Titans
"Pink Of The Possibilities!"

The Pink Titans - Team 5719 of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) - is an awards-winning, high school robotics team made of students, teachers, and mentors who are interested in learning, teaching, and collaborating in the context of a fun, challenging, yet rewarding robotics experience.

5719: Number designation given by the FIRST Headquarters in New Hampshire, USA.
Pink: Meanings of the colour are associated with key characteristics of the team - acceptance, hopefulness, optimism, playfulness, and youthfulness. Promotion of efforts by the Canadian Cancer Society in combating breast cancer. Promotion of awareness in support of equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities.
Titans: Defined as those who "gain strength and stand out in greatness of achievement". Participating in and sustaining a FIRST Robotics program are celebrated, memorable accomplishments! Titans is also the name of school teams at David & Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute.

The team was founded in November 2014 in time for the January start of the 2015 FRC game, called Recycle Rush.

The team is based at David & Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, a high school in the Bendale community of Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario. In Fall 2019, the team with the school students moved into a brand new school building:

Mission

To celebrate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; 21st Century-workplace) education by fostering a collaborative, exciting, and engaging culture of learning STEM-focused skills, teaching and applying them, then sharing with the greater community.

Vision: "Pink Of The Possibilities!"

"Pink Of The Possibilities": New members are accepted and welcomed. All members participate with hope and optimism. All members feel comfortable to try and learn new things, take risks, and discover what is possible for consideration of further pursuits of interests.

Goals

Design, build, and program robots that compete in annual game challenge of the FIRST Robotics Competition
Engage in STEM-focused learning: Promote awareness, interest, and excitement in STEM via outreach
Continually improve and increase the overall knowledge of the team
Build and foster Mentor-Mentee relationships to sustain learning, plus inspire and motivate youth to achieve goals

Strategies

Collaborate with and accept different individuals at various levels of skills, experiences, and subject interests to achieve common goals
Teach valuable skills for success to become respectable leaders and team members

Values

Adhere to the values of FIRST Canada:

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: "Reflect inclusive diversity of contemporary Canadian society. Respect and equity are key to this experience. Encourage greater access and participation in our programs for women, First Nations, and the underserved".
Coopertition = "Cooperation + Competition": "Collaboratively supporting excellence for all teams raises the level of learning through blending cooperation and competition".
Transfer Knowledge and Skills: "Much valuable learning takes place when students work side-by-side with adult mentors who take time from their professional careers to share their knowledge, enthusiasm and expertise. Life-long bonds are created and students are exposed to exciting career opportunities".
Gracious Professionalism: "FIRST programs reward both on-field and off-field conduct that models the best values of professional respect and courtesy".

STEM-focused learning, as interesting and useful for attainment, is worth it
Teaching and partnerships engage and give continuity to sustained learning