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Team 4617 is a group of young women in high school, whose objective as a team within FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Canada is to motivate youth to become more involved in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through robotics. FIRST Canada inspires over 7,000 students across the country, a number that is rapidly growing due to the support of generous corporate sponsors.
Our team began in 2014 as a part of Western Engineering’s FIRST Robotics Incubator Team 4814, WE MARS Incubator. Our team ran for two years, returning this year after the successful creation of many new teams in London. Our goal is to promote interest in STEM for girls in our community. During our first year as an all girls team, we competed in two competitions, the Waterloo and Windsor Regionals. That year we won the Judges award for our passion and commitment to robotics in our community.
Each year students are given 6 weeks to design, build, and program a 120 lb robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Last year’s game, “Power Up”, with an 8-bit video game theme, challenged students to build a robot that interacts with the other two robots in their alliance to place “power cubes” (game pieces) on a switch and an elevated scale (essentially teeter totters). To earn extra points, teams could climb and lift teammates up the scale.
This year we are going to the Western and the Waterloo Regionals for the game “Deep Space.” We are extremely excited for this coming season and we hope to grow London’s awareness of FIRST.
Our team began in 2014 as a part of Western Engineering’s FIRST Robotics Incubator Team 4814, WE MARS Incubator. Our team ran for two years, returning this year after the successful creation of many new teams in London. Our goal is to promote interest in STEM for girls in our community. During our first year as an all girls team, we competed in two competitions, the Waterloo and Windsor Regionals. That year we won the Judges award for our passion and commitment to robotics in our community.
Each year students are given 6 weeks to design, build, and program a 120 lb robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Last year’s game, “Power Up”, with an 8-bit video game theme, challenged students to build a robot that interacts with the other two robots in their alliance to place “power cubes” (game pieces) on a switch and an elevated scale (essentially teeter totters). To earn extra points, teams could climb and lift teammates up the scale.
This year we are going to the Western and the Waterloo Regionals for the game “Deep Space.” We are extremely excited for this coming season and we hope to grow London’s awareness of FIRST.