Category Archives: News and events

Year-end thanks

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All that we do at First State Robotics is possible because of our generous sponsors and amazing volunteers. Thank you for supporting our youth and helping them become the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.

To learn more about FSR sponsors, click here.

To become an FSR sponsor, click here.

To join our team of FTC or FRC event volunteers see these web sites.

To volunteer for an FLL or JFLL event, contact the directors by email.

FTC teams move ahead to Championship events

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Congratulations to FSR’s two FTC teams! So far, both have done very well this season.

Our rookie team, Rhyme Know Reason, has earned two robotics awards over the past two weeks. On November 22, in Oxford, PA, they earned the Motivate Award. Last Saturday November 29, in Ambler, PA, they earned the Think Award for their excellent engineering notebook. With this award they earned the opportunity to compete at the PA State FTC Championship in late February. In addition, they will also be competing at the Diamond State Championship in Dover, DE, next January 31.

Their team, with lead mentor Dawn Dockter and several other mentors, has built a strong foundation of teamwork and engineering exploration.

Also at the Oxford event, our veteran FTC team, MOE 365, was Alliance captain for the winning alliance and they were awarded the Connect Award.

At the Ambler event,  MOE earned the Inspire Award, (top award) and was on the winning alliance of teams (with a team from Delaware’s Archmere Academy) in on-field competition. They have also earned a championship berth in Pennsylvania and in Delaware.

We wish them all the best as they move forward to FTC’s 2014 championship events.

FTC events are free and open to the public. For information about locations and times, click the links above.

You can read about the FTC game– Cascade Effect– and preview the video here.

Students talk robotics with Delaware STEM educators

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Student representatives of two FSR teams– FRC 365 (MOE) and FTC 8528 (Rhyme Know Reason)– demonstrated their robots and talked about their design process with attendees at the first annual STEM Educator Award presentation. Adult representatives of FSFLL and Diamond State FTC as well as FSR board members were also on hand to answer questions and hand out program information. The event, sponsored by the Governor’s STEM Council, was held November 17 at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington.

To learn more about DE STEM Council, click here.