Raptor Robotics - FTC 2803

12/11/2019

Due to graduations, changes and people moving up to Robotics Team 1555 - Cryonics, team 2803 Raptor Robotics is dormant this year.

However, E3 Robotics Center is proudly hosting the The Gas Attendants FTC Team 8711, who just won first place at the West Virginia State Championship last weekend!

Please follow them here:

https://www.facebook.com/TheGasAttdFTC/

FTC Team 8711 The Gas Attendants part of the E3 Robotics Center Family of Programs.

04/23/2019

Here is a great article and video about closing the skills gap, and looking at alternative methods of education. Watch the video, Mike Rowe has some great points!

Carlyn McClelland went to college, but here's what she'd do differently.

04/23/2019

Anyone else getting excited about the Star wars crossover with the competition for the 2019-2020 season?

We sure are!

Lucasfilm and Disney are teaming up with FIRST, the global k-12 STEM nonprofit, to inspire the next generation of innovators as part of the Star Wars: Force for Change. Star Wars has ignited a passion around the world and as a robotics community, FIRST has done the same for millions of students.

04/22/2019

Wow, these new hubs look nice and solid. Something to keep in mind for next year. E3 Robotics Center

Maximize surface contact on the shaft to provide superior holding force when compared to a standard clamping hub with our new Barrel Hub!
https://www.servocity.com/1-4-d-bore-barrel-hub

04/15/2019

Way to go LFL/Disney!

A day after the big Episode IX reveal, Disney and subsidiary Lucas film announced that it will be donating $1.5 million to FIRST . The non-profit group was founded by Dean Kamen in 1989 to help teach STEM through initiatives like robotics competitions. Disney’s money will go to provide education a...

04/10/2019

We are currently in the off season, and are working on recruiting, training and fundraising. If you know of anyone who wants to join, wants to assist, or wants to help donate to the team, please let us know.

04/02/2019

The Raptors will be changing the team name to 'Happy Little Robots.' Team uniforms will be blue button up shirts and afros.

02/25/2019

After pouring blood, sweat and tears into our little scrap bot, we competed in three back-to-back-to-back competitions. And managed to achieve burn-out by week one. We built and rebuilt that thing and experienced so many highs and lows.

But the sweetest victory was coming in dead last in competition #3. It takes a special kind of talent to come in 33 out of 33 teams.

Any ordinary robotics team can average somewhere in the middle or kind of near the bottom. And it's not like we set out to land at the bottom. There were failures beyond our control and we fought hard to the bitterest end to keep it running. But the very same team work and effort that took us to 33 out of 33, can just as easily take us to the top. Way to go, Raptors!!!!

In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions -- d...

02/22/2019

Raptors testing a brand new lift system!