Presenters: Isriah Keila and Meghan Ho, from RoboLancers Team 321

The FIRST Impact Award recognizes a team that demonstrates the greatest measurable progress toward achieving FIRST’s mission of transforming society to elevate science and technology in our culture. Your team’s first step in working towards the Impact Award should be to decide on and clearly articulate a team mission and vision that fits into the bigger picture of the global FIRST mission, but is meaningful, manageable and measurable in your community. Participants will learn about designing a sustainable outreach program that appropriately addresses community needs.

About Isriah and Meghan

The presenters are mentors for 2023 Championship FIRST Impact Award Winner team 321, the RoboLancers. Through the nonprofit Philadelphia Robotics Coalition, the presenters train and support teachers to become successful FIRST coaches.

Isriah Keila has been a coach of the RoboLancers since 2021. He is the full-time Operations Manager for the Philadelphia Robotics Coalition, the non-profit organization founded by the RoboLancers. He has been involved in FIRST for 17 years, an alum of every FIRST program from kindergarten through high school, and mentoring thereafter. He holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Florida State University.

Meghan Ho has been a mentor of the RoboLancers since 2012. She was part of the first group of students on the RoboLancers that presented for the Chairman’s Award, and has been working with students for the last 10 years to further develop their Impact submissions. She holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Temple University.