Barriers and Bridges – A Strategic Approach to Having a Real Impact

Outreach, Presentation, Scaling a Team (Advanced)

Presenter: Isriah Keila (321)

Key Takeaway: The strategic thinking skills that we all pride ourselves on can be applied to non-robot fields! 

Talking about your Impact is great – but how do you actually have a *real* impact? In this session, we’ll tackle crafting a useful mission statement to guide your work, as well as learn about how the Barriers and Bridges protocol is used to build impactful outreach programs. This long-form session will help teach you how to discuss and evolve programs using a solutions-oriented mindset to build large-scale, high-impact outreach.

About the Presenter:

Isriah Keila is a Business Development Manager at FIRST, supporting the growth of FTC and FRC programs across Western PA, FIRST Mid-Atlantic, and FIRST Chesapeake. A proud alum of FLL Jr., FLL Challenge, FTC, and FRC, he has spent the past four years coaching FRC Team 321, the RoboLancers – a FIRST Hall of Fame team.