Projects & Volunteering

Highlights

2019 World Championship Master of Ceremonies

2015 Woodie Flowers Award Nominee, FRC Team 1089

2019 Donald Bowers Award Nominee

Student Quotes

In her four years as a Mercury Mentor, FIRST alumnus Nikki Stout has brought out the best in the students of Team Mercury. Whether it’s her constant push for creativity, her emphasis on hard work or her constant willingness to share her expertise, Nikki’s time as a mentor has positively impacted the Mercurites and their work. She even reaches beyond Team Mercury in her quest to improve FIRST students’ environment, volunteering whenever possible to encourage coopertition, gracious professionalism and team spirit. Nikki Stout is an invaluable part of Team Mercury, and our universe would not be complete without her.

2015 Seniors, FRC 1089

FIRST Mid-Atlantic

Board of Directors

July, 2020 – Present

  • Reviewed and updated bylaws to support virtual events and meetings
  • Working with other members to create engaging and thought provoking marketing materials

Outreach Chairman

July, 2016 – July, 2017

  • Created social media accounts
  • Lead successful giving Tuesday campaigns surpassing initial goals
  • Builds and maintains strong funder and sponsor relations

FIRST Robotics

September, 2012 – Present

Master of Ceremonies

  • Acts as the face of FIRST at events
  • Speaks to crowds of various sizes
  • Coordinates event tear down
  • Acts as the event manager when needed

Volunteer Coordinator, Global Innovation Award

  • Coordinates and recruits volunteers
  • Ensures the event runs on time
  • Communicates volunteer needs to event management staff
  • Fills roles as needed

Mentoring

  • Educates students in engineering design
  • Works with students on business and fundraising endeavors
  • Teaches students how to maintain strong funder and sponsor relations

Program Training

  • Leads professional development workshops for new educators and mentors in the program.
  • Created professional development for educators and schools starting FIRST Robotics Teams which has been viewed by 200 educators in NJ
  • Ran conferences focusing on inspiring women to pursue STEM careers with a first year attendance of 500 students

FIRST Updates Now!

  • Interview students on teams to highlight various parts of their robots
  • Created content that has been viewed over 5,000 times
  • Created detailed show notes for top rated programming

FIRST Education

  • Wrote scripts based on lesson plans
  • Filmed and edited videos
  • Created video overlays to help explain concepts

Focus Groups

  • Volunteer Feedback
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Reinvented Magazine

November, 2020 – Present

Online Community Director

  • Manages team of moderators for a 7,000+ person Facebook Group

Crisis Text Line

June, 2017 – June, 2020

Counselor

  • Actively listens to individuals texting in
  • Calmly helps individuals in crisis
  • Helps bring users from a hot moment to a cool calm

togetHER digital

June, 2018 – June, 2019

Secretary, Philadelphia Chapter

  • Acted as a Project Manager for various committees
  • Managed execution of events