Gracious Professionalism in Action
Pair of Dice Robotics
Pair of Dice’s Impact
Advancing FIRST Values
Since our rookie season, we have hosted at least one FLL qualifier or championship each year. We have assisted over 100 teams through 3 FLL advanced programming and building workshops in our region. We mentored 3 FLL and 1 FTC team in the past two years, with a focus on coaching the mentors. Our team ensures all FIRST events in our region are supported, and we have accumulated over 1,500 volunteer hours last year.
Impact On Students
Pair Of Dice is constantly inspiring the next generation of engineers through our Advanced Manufacturing Program.
Students in this program are offered OSHA-10, Fanuc, OnShape, and 28 different Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) certifications. In the past two years, the program has awarded over 350 certifications, making up 2% of all SACA certifications nationwide.
Although the program is separate from the team, it was built by our mentors and we are contributing to its constant growth. We teach classes, certify other students, and attend all recruiting events. We even help our mentors to plan job fairs, during which some employers have offered our students up to $70,000 a year straight out of high school.
Girls in TECH
For the last two years Pair of Dice has hosted a workshop called Girls in Tech.
The workshop brought 280+ female and non-binary middle school students to our school to participate in interactive, hands-on STEM lessons. Our workshops consisted of activities in 3D design, electrical circuits, computer science, medical professions, and engineering industry speakers.
The event is always great success and will continue to be held annually.
Outreach To Our Community
In Las Vegas, 15% of the population lives below the poverty line.
To support one of our local community food banks we organized a canned food drive that directly helped the Henderson Equality Centers, where Pair of Dice was able to raise over 400 cans/food items for their pantry.
In addition, we partnered with Savers, to organize a clothing drive, in which we were able to raise more than 3500 pounds of donations.
To further partake in helping our community, our team volunteered at Three Square to help package food for the homeless youth in our area.
Altogether, Pair of Dice constantly strives to go all in for our community.
Teaming Up
Pair of Dice has assisted over 300 FIRST teams in the past three years spanning 6 countries.
Our Strike Team has assisted teams at our six most recent regionals, helping 20+ teams at each event. Strike Team’s role is to program, maintain, fix, and even add climbers to robots in need. We even created an autonomous for a team, resulting in their regional win.
We have hosted teams from the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Brazil, and neighboring states before regionals. Las Year, to celebrate the cultural exchange of 3 nations, we hosted a “Party in the USA”, and strengthened our relationship with them throughout the week before the tournament.
Space whiskers
Our work with young students motivated us to create a children’s book, “Space Whiskers,” about an alien cat fixing its spaceship with a little girl. Since publishing in January of 2025, we have sold 50 copies and ordered 10 more to donate to local schools.
Our Space Whiskers curriculum was taught in front of 3 classrooms. After a book reading, students built rockets with household items as Space Whiskers did in the story, combining literacy and STEM skills—while also increasing engagement and expanding our preschool initiative.
Pack Expos
In the past 4 years, Pair of Dice has presented at two PACK Expos and the Las Vegas Science Expo reaching 900+ people. At the 2024 program showcase, our members reached 50+ industry professionals and the district's superintendent. That event was televised on local news networks reaching over 10,000 people.
