During the 2020-2021 pandemic, Team 7157 went through a dark time. The team was devastated that their season was cut short, and was inactive for several weeks. However, an offer came to our team from Eric Gever, a Boeing Employee, to create face shields for healthcare workers in the Orange County area. We accepted the offer and got to work, putting together our first batch of 100 face shields, and delivered them to our first healthcare clinic. This seemed like a huge amount of face shields at the time, but we were not fazed and decided to set an ambitious goal to put together 7,157, our team number, face shields. With this goal in mind, Mubotics got to work.

Mubotics continued to put together and deliver thousands of face shields until, on December 14th, 2020, Team 7157 reached their goal of putting together 7,157 face shields. Mubotics celebrated their hours of hard work and dedication by signing the 7,157th face shield. The team continued to put together face shields past their goal until Eric Gever notified the team that he was no longer going to be able to supply the parts for the face shields. So, the team put together their final batch of face shields and delivered them to the last healthcare clinic.

In the end, Team 7157 put together and delivered over 9,000 face shields and helped keep healthcare workers stay safe during a time that was unlike any other. This effort brought Team 7157 out from the dark, and had Eric Gever not reached out to Mubotics to put together our first batch of 100 face shields, Mubotics may have ceased to be a team. However, the team was revived and has remained strong ever since.