Our robotics team is headed to the FIRST World Championship! Help develop the future of American ingenuity in STEM, problem solving, and professionalism by promoting FIRST TECH CHALLENGE.
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Please put robotics in the student name section.
The OG Hurricanes are a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team made up of 8 students between 8th through 11th grade.
In FTC, teams are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in head-to-head challenges in an alliance format. Guided by adult coaches and mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles, while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team. Each competition season comes with different gameplay, challenges, and rules.
Last year, the team was skilled enough to win the Inspire Award during qualifiers and state, they also made it to the World Competition in Houston, TX, in April of 2023. This year we have won the Inspire Award in both qualifiers and state competition, and are on the way to Worlds in Houston again!
The team begins each season with a blank slate and using lessons learned from previous competitions, builds a robot without any blueprints or building blocks. They use engineering principles to design a robot that is reliable, efficient, and multifunctional. Students also use coding to program all elements for the robot to function. During the robot gameplay, the robot is programmed to drive itself to complete tasks autonomously for thirty seconds, and then the robot is driven using programmed gamepads to accomplish other tasks for another two minutes. The team scores points for each task completed in the two-and-a-half-minute match.
This season, the game was titled “Center Stage” and students were tasked to build a robot that could pick up pixels and deliver them to a 30-inch backboard in designs called mosaics. This task is made more difficult due to the robot size constraint having to fit underneath the trusses and stage door.
Our team put countless hours into their robot design, building, and coding, all the while engaging in various community-based STEM activities to promote STEM to various audiences.
Their hard work paid off and the team was selected as the 2024 Inspire Award Winner at the East Division Qualifier as well as State Championships. This is the top award given out to the best all-around team in all the categories of Design (Function and Form), Promote (Promoting FIRST Robotics), Connect (Connect with STEM community), Innovation (Inventive problem solving), Think (Engineering process), Control (Sensors) and Motivate (Outreach to the community) and qualifies them to attend the State Championships.
