Our Teams
The individual teams are comprised of a team leader and members fulfilling roles to make the team successful. These roles include, but are not limited to design, build, CAD, programming, driving, and outreach. Special emphasis is put on problem solving and teamwork.
Every year each individual team will design and build a robot to meet the specific technical challenge presented by FIRST®1, then program and debug their robot for competition with other teams within the state, and potentially on a national or worldwide level.
The competition involves four teams which are made into two “Alliances” of two teams each randomly matched. This means there are four robots on the field at one time. In each match the robots must operate autonomously (no human interface) for 30 seconds, then are opreated by human drivers using remote control for a 90 second period. During the match the robots must perform tasks such as picking up objects, placing them in target locations, maneuvering around obstacles, and driving to specific locations, with points being scored for every task completed. Alliance partners are changed for subsequent matches, with a typical competition having five to six matches. Individual teams with highest score of all Alliance matches move on to the final matches.
- See About FIRST® to learn more about this organization. ↩︎