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Elm City Robo Squad takes on Hartford.
The following citizen contribution was submitted by Hill Regional Career Magnet High School science teacher and robotics mentor Cynthia Scheetz.
Career High School’s Elm City Robo Squad won the Gracious Professionalism Award in Hartford during this year’s robotics competition, held March 29 and 30.
The NE Hartford District FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition took place at Hartford Public High School, where the Elm City Robo Squad (FRC558) competed.
Elm City Robo Squad was the fourth alliance captain. Career’s team attended with two other teams from New Haven schools that were also alliance captains. ESUMS’s Robo Dominators (FRC 5142) was the captain of Alliance 3. Achievement First Amistad High School’s The Fun Gang (FRC7869) was captain of Alliance 7.
The NE District Championship was April 3 – 5, 2025, at the Big E Coliseum.
Both the Robo Dominators and The Fun Gang qualified and competed, and Robo Dominators placed high enough to qualify for the 2025 FIRST Championship to be held in Houston, Texas, on April 16 – 19, 2025.
Our team is part of FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and our team number was assigned to us when the team started in 2000. Each year the competition challenge is released to the world on the first Saturday of January. This year’s theme for all the divisions of FIRST is DIVE, with the goal of bringing STEM inspiration, holistic skill building, and fun to the collaborative problem solving of the ocean-themed 2024 – 2025 robotics season.
The name of the game or competition for FRC is REEFSCAPES presented by Haas Game Animation. FRC teams will use their engineering skills to strengthen one of the ocean’s most diverse habitats.
Find the Robo Squad website here and read more about the competition here. The animated 2025 game reveal video can be found here.
