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Welcome to the South Windsor, CT Bobcat Robotics FIRST team website. FIRST stands for, “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” and is a program to promote engineering in high schools. The FIRST Robotics and Vex competitions are held yearly to help students get involved in and exposed to engineering. It provides a chance for students to get to work with each other in real-life scenarios. FIRST is an inspiration to everyone involved in it and a life-changing experience.

Bobcat Robotics has been an active member in the FIRST community for over 12 years now. Since our rookie year in 1995 we have proven ourselves as a team that produces excellent, high-quality work. Over the course of our history we have been internationally recognized among the top teams, and have received many awards for our performance and cooperation in the FIRST community. We have striven to make our best efforts at offering a helping hand to younger teams trying to get involved, and actively collaborate with other members of the community.

Each year we begin our build season in January following the official Kickoff event. Over the course of the next six weeks, thousands of man-hours are put into the design, construction, programming, strategy, and testing of our robot for the year. At the end of the build season the robot is packaged and shipped to FIRST headquarters where it spends the month of February. Come March, the competition season begins, and our team attends the UTC New England Regional in Hartford, CT to compete against other teams vying for a spot at the International Championships at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA.

To the students on the team, FIRST is more than just a robotics club, an engineering competition, or a sport. It is a learning experience to everyone involved in it, and teaches young adults valuable career lessons in the field of engineering. It offers a chance to expose the field to students who might otherwise not pursue their interests in it. The value of the program is immeasurable to not only the students, but also to every single mentor who gets involved in the process and gets to share their expertise with others and provide themselves as a role model.