STEAM Stand
Science-based stands we run every few months to connect our community to engineering.
5 years
What we do off the field
Community
Mentoring, science for the whole town, and a nationwide challenge for Israeli FRC teams.
11FIRST teams in Shoham
9Teams we mentor
7500+Shoham community impact
2FTC teams we opened
STEM for the whole town
Unique activities
& events
We bring STEM to the community of Shoham through hands-on stands, festivals, mentoring and open-source tools — from kindergartens to national conferences.
Free licenses worldwide
Together with monday.com and FIRST we enabled free licenses for every FLL, FTC and FRC team worldwide.
1000+ teams
Onyx Hatch
We make the STEM world accessible to hundreds of kids in kindergartens through unique activities.
300+ kids
STEM Happening
A happening in our town where every local FRC, FTC and FLL team showcases its robot.
500+ kids
WOW Kids
An activity teaching kids about famous and historically impactful women in STEM fields.
2 years
Museot Shoham
During Sukkot we run a two-day STEM stand at the town’s yearly “Museot” festival.
2000+ kids
Onyx Booklet
When the Iran–Israel war began we published a digital booklet of at-home STEM activities.
2600+ downloads
OUTronix
Two camping events in our town where we run activities that connect younger generations to STEM.
1000+ kids
EcoTronix
An annual Tu BiShvat event where we run activities about STEAM subjects and the environment.
1000+ people
Onyx Explorers
An annual afterschool FLL Explore club that introduces kids to FIRST programs, using custom models and booklets built by our team.
Onyx & Friends
An event at Beit Issie Shapiro delivering STEM activities for children with motor disabilities, run several times this year.
OnyxEyes
A free, open-source eye-tracking app we built so people with physical limitations can use SolidWorks.
Open source
GearUp
A conference — with #3339 and #1577 X2 — where we lectured on mechanics, programming and electronics.
130+ members · 22 teams
Mentoring
Shoham is home to 11 FIRST teams. We support every one of them so they can learn, grow and rise — as a team, and as young leaders. Every mentor from our team is thoroughly trained before being assigned. We also co-founded Shoham's first FTC team, Super Cow, together with The Spikes, and opened a second FTC team, Electro Birds.
A-Part of FIRST
A competitive challenge for FRC teams in Israel, run in partnership with FIRST Israel and born out of our win at the 2020 Hackathon. Launched in December 2020, it covers seven categories — schematics, strategy, IT, electronics, community, media and social.
OnyxScience
A series of science experiments we ran together with the town's kids during lockdown. Every experiment put the emphasis on a different scientific principle.
Science Worksheets
During the COVID-19 outbreak we published two worksheets of science and activities for the whole family — riddles, sport activities, games, experiments and more.
Technological Activity at “Shekel”
An activity for people with disabilities at the Shekel employment centre, in collaboration with Primo #4586. In small groups we built and programmed NXT robot systems to pass an obstacle course, showed our robot and explained about FIRST and the competitions we take part in.
Celebration in Green
Every year we take part in the annual Celebration in Green in the Shoham forest, running an activity for the community about science, recycling and the quality of nature. Everyone goes home with something they can actually use.
Oshpezoom Activity
Together with about 70 kids from Shoham we built homemade cameras at the Oshpezoom, an activity programme run by the parents' board of our hometown.
Muzot Festival
Every year we take part in Shoham's Muzot festival. Among the many stands, it is hard to miss the team's — our robot, a science activity and an introduction to the team and to FIRST.
Dog Adoption Fair
Together with Round Table and My Friend we created a dog adoption fair and fundraiser, with game stands and science experiments for the kids.
Get involved
Join the team
Whether you want to design, build, code, strategise or tell our story — there is a place for you on OnyxTronix. We are also always looking for sponsors and mentors who want to help the next generation of engineers get started.