Optimum Announces Commitment to Local Students and STEM Learning Through FIRST® for a Sixth Year in a Row
February 29 2024 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
Optimum’s funding commitment will sponsor over
60 high school teams and six regional competitions throughout its
service area for the 2024 FIRST® Robotics Competition season
Optimum, the provider of advanced internet, mobile, TV, and
phone services, today announces its continued partnership with
robotics community FIRST® and its commitment to support FIRST
robotics teams across the company’s 21-state footprint. Through
this year’s commitment, Optimum is sponsoring over 60 teams for the
2024 FIRST® Robotics Competition season, which provides students
with mentor-based programs to build science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) skills.
Optimum’s commitment to this community will help supply
resources and tools needed for FIRST teams to build and program a
robot to perform this season’s challenge, CRESCENDOSM. In
CRESCENDO, teams are challenged to combine their engineering skills
and creative power to explore the possibilities of their designs,
building and programming of their robots for a music-themed
game.
“As a company focused on technology and innovation, Optimum is
honored to continue championing programs in our local communities
that help inspire and educate future innovators, and our
long-standing partnership with FIRST further supports the company’s
goals in this space by providing students with resources and
opportunities to gain STEM skills,” said Jen Ostrager, Senior Vice
President of Community Affairs at Optimum. “Each year we are blown
away by the unique and groundbreaking concepts that the students
come up with through this program, and we cannot wait to see the
different approaches our Optimum-sponsored FIRST teams take in
their robot builds during the 2024 season.”
This year, Optimum will also be sponsoring six regional
competitions across its footprint, including FIRST Long Island, Mid
Atlantic, North Carolina, Texas, NYC, and the Hudson Valley, which
returns for the first time since 2019 to allow local high school
students an opportunity to showcase and test their robots and
continue developing their skills across mechanical and electrical
engineering, coding, programming, marketing, communications,
leadership, finance, community outreach, and more.
“We are extremely grateful for Optimum’s continued partnership
and support of FIRST Robotics Competition,” said Chris Moore, CEO
of FIRST. “FIRST aims to not only get students excited about STEM,
but about the breadth of opportunities within the field, and to
inspire interest in pursuing STEM careers. We are thrilled that
Optimum stands alongside us in our collective efforts to prepare
young people for their future and look forward to seeing how these
students take on this year’s game, CRESCENDO, to combine STEM and
the arts to build a better world.”
In addition to Optimum’s annual commitment through FIRST, the
company continues to support and foster STEM skill development
among high school students across the communities it serves through
its annual award program – the Optimum Innovator Awards. Following
each competition season, Optimum recognizes and awards grants to
local FIRST teams for their innovation and efforts in areas
including community engagement, technology, inspiration, diversity,
and sustainability. The awarded grants help further support the
winning teams’ growth, creativity, and innovation as they prepare
for the next season of competitions and find new ways to engineer
their robots. Click here to read more about the winners of
Optimum’s 2023 Innovator Awards.
To learn more about Optimum’s long-standing partnership with
FIRST, visit optimum.com/FIRST.
About Optimum
Optimum is a brand of Altice USA, one of the largest broadband
communications and video services providers in the United States,
delivering broadband, video, mobile, proprietary content and
advertising services to approximately 4.7 million residential and
business customers across 21 states. The company operates a4, an
advanced advertising and data business, which provides
audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions to local,
regional and national businesses and advertising clients. Altice
USA also offers hyper-local and international news through its News
12 and i24NEWS networks.
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