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First Robotics / Robot Squad

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FTC Team #7152 - The Robot Squad will present their experiences, work, and demo their robot.

We are the Robot Squad. We have been a team in FIRST for 8 years.Weston Fyles was the founder of the team. Weston had been on an FLL team in 3rd grade that was held at his church, and he decided to start his own team. He talked to some of his friends about it and formed our own FLL team, the Robot Squad.

We won our regional tournament our first year and went to state. We continued to participate in FLL and got to the state level every year. In our 3rd year, we won state for Division One (the age group between 4th and 6th grade) and went to the North American Open invitational tournament in San Diego. There, we competed against teams from the US, Mexico, Canada, and Spain. We had a ton of fun in Legoland and competing against teams from around North America.

Our next year, in 7th grade, we went all the way to the World Festival in Saint Louis! It was a ton of fun and we were able to meet teams from around the globe and compete against the best teams in the world!

We decided to move on to FTC because after doing so well in FLL, we were ready for a new challenge. Our first year in FTC, we went as far as the Super-Regional level, where we competed against teams from the northern US. In our second, third and fourth years, we went all the way to the World Festival in Saint Louis, where we competed against the best in the world!

This year, we hope to improve upon last year’s achievements and learn even more about STEM through outreach and competition. We wish other teams good luck. We would like to thank our mentors and our sponsors for making our team possible. Let’s make this year the best!