Michiana Premier Event

We had an amazing time at the Michiana premier event! We ended up in the Croft division playoffs and had a great performance, making it to match 12. We additionally won the third place Control award for our division. Special thanks to the organizers of the event as well as our alliance partners 16832 GP Robotics Unit and 11139 Knight Owls. 

Run for the Robots

We went to the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park last weekend for the Run for the Robots premier event. It was one of our best results ever, with us getting third in the qualifiers, being second seed alliance captain, and making it to the semifinal rounds before we were eliminated. We unfortunately didn't make our goal of getting to the finals, but we had our most consistent qualifier rounds ever with 7 wins and 1 loss. Big thanks to the event organizers and our alliance partner in the finals #8645 Robotic Doges. 

Dayton Hamvention

Our team went to the Dayton Hamvention along with a few other local teams to do outreach for FIRST. We had a lot of fun letting people drive our robot and working with other teams from our area like #22858 Flying Sausers. Big thanks to them as well as other DoW STEM affiliated teams for helping us out!. See less

Ohio Championship

We had a great time at the championship! Along with our neighbors #3311, we ended up as 2nd place in playoffs. Unfortunately, we just barely didn't qualify for worlds, but we still got a premier event invitation. Huge thanks to our neighboring team 3311, and congrats to all the teams there.

Team Calamari Scrimmage

Thanks to #10084 Team Calamari for inviting us to their scrimmage in Columbus! It was a great oppurtunity to see where other teams are at as we approach the state championship. We had a good time and got to gain vauable driving experience against other robots.

Miami University Qualifier

We had a great time at Miami! Our team won second place inspire award and were winning alliance partner. Our alliance captain was #23435, and we had a great time working with them. Because of our win and runner up for inspire award, we have qualified for the state championships in March! We are working hard to be as prepared as possible for states.

Qualifier rank: 6th

Playoff rank: 1st (Winning alliance partner)

High Score: 284pts

Awards: Insipire Award Runner Up

Central Ohio League Tournament

We had an amazing championship. Unfortunately, we did not meet our goal of qualifying for state championships, but we still won the Inspire Award! 

Qualifier rank: 11th

High Score: 115pts

Awards: Inspire Award

Dayton Qualifier

We had a great time hosting the Dayton Qualifier at Sinclair Community College. The curse of snow struck for the third time in a year, but we persevered. It was great to be able to give back to our local FIRST community. 

Central Ohio Scrimmage #3

We did it again! We qualified in second place during the qualifying rounds and were selected by #10084 Team Calamari to be part of Alliance 1. Our alliance won the playoff section of the competition undefeated. Thanks to Centennial High School and the Centennial Stars of the Galaxy for hosting us! We can’t wait for the final scrimmage. 

Central Ohio Scrimmage #2

We had an amazing time at Scrimmage #2! We are super happy with our results, as we got second place overall in qualifying and we were picked as an alliance partner during alliance selection. Our team and our alliance captain #10084 Team Calamari ended up winning the tournament! Again, thanks to #12099 Stars of the Galaxy for hosting us! 

Central Ohio Scrimmage #1

Thank you to Centennial High School and 12099 Stars of the Galaxy for hosting us! This scrimmage,  we aimed to compete with our main season robot. Unfortunately, we encountered some issues, but we still finished in seventh out of fifteen. The most important part is we got driver experience and we know what problems we have to fix.

Central Ohio Scrimmage #0

Thank you to Centennial High School and 12099 Stars of the Galaxy for hosting the first scrimmage meet! The goal for this scrimmage was to have a working drive base, and we bought our robot in three days to compete. During one of our matches, we got the event high score of 71pts. We ended up a strong second place in the total rankings. We had a bunch of fun and learned a lot about other teams strategies in the early parts of the season. 

Blue Star Families Back to School Fair

On the ninth of August, our team went to the Blue Star Families back to school supply drive and resource fair at the Hope Hotel to give students resources about FIRST and how to join it. Thanks to Blue Star Families for hosting us!

Refuge Robotics Partnership at Penuel Church

We partnered with Refuge Robotics again to run a bigger outreach with 36 kids at Penuel Church. We taught them how to build and program a basic Ev3 robot. Some of them even created line following programs! We had such a great time and the kids had a blast.

Thank you so much to Penuel Church for hosting us and all the volunteers who helped us run the event. We couldn't have done it without you!

On Saturday the 19th, we assisted Refuge Robotics at an outreach with 36 attendees. We had a great time teaching them about LEGO EV3 programming. 

FLL Party at Thomas Cloud Park

On July 8, we went to Thomas Cloud park and demoed our robot to some of the Eritrean Community. We had an awesome time and there were a bunch of interested kids! The kids had a lot of fun playing at our Lego table and seeing the FTC robot drive!

Dayton Airshow

On June 22, we went to the Dayton Airshow and demoed our robot. We talked to people about FIRST and got some awesome views of the Thunderbirds!

World Refugee Day

On June 21, we went with Refuge Robotics to World Refugee day at the Dayton Metro Library. We demoed both FLL and FTC and let kids drive our robot!

Rec Your Hood Event - Old North Dayton

We recruited new students and talked to them about FIRST. In cooperation with Refuge Robotics, we demoed FLL as well as FTC!

Introduce Girls to Engineering Day 

We went to Billerud in Miamisburg, learned about how paper is made, and demoed our robot for the kids there. Thank you so much to Billerud for giving us this opportunity!