Valkyrie Robotics

Valkyrie Robotics seeks to provide equal-opportunity access to quality extracurricular education in STEM, leveling the floor for all students, regardless of race, gender, or economic background. By exposing students to industry-level challenges and mentors to match, we help students develop key skills for the modern workplace in fields ranging from software engineering to business leadership, as well as vital life skills including self-confidence, teamwork, leadership, and communication.
To further this mission, we have set for ourselves the following five core goals:
I. Teach students real-world skills that will be relevant in college, industry, and beyond.
II. Increase the number of students attending college and university, especially in STEM fields.
III. Close the opportunity gap between women and men in science, technology, and engineering.
IV. Give economically disadvantaged students access to high-quality extracurricular programs.
V. Engage communities to spread awareness and support for socioeconomic educational disparities.

Valkyrie Robotics provides our communities with a variety of programs in three categories: extracurricular student organizations, directed educational programs, and direct charitable support. Each category of programs provides students with different benefits to their learning and education, each serving an essential role in promulgating our mission and goals.

Valkyrie Robotics has developed a strong core of financial and volunteer support, including an organizational budget of $80,000 a year and more than 20 regularly involved adult volunteers.

After four years of operation,Valkyrie Robotics is glad to have directly served more than three hundred students through our competitive programs, more than four thousand students indirectly through community outreach, and dozens of schools in California and Puerto Rico through any one of our educational enrichment programs. Students engaged in our programs have reported markedly higher rates of college attendance, pursuance of degrees in business or STEM, and overall educational success than the baseline, including high rates of admission to schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and those within the Ivy League system.
In the coming years, we seek to expand the membership of our core programs, including Valkyrie Robotics FRC#299, as well as to found new programs that will help us provide expanded opportunities for students in new areas, such as Santa Cruz County, San Francisco County, and Puerto Rico.