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- Walpole Robotics now has a twitter.12/03/2011 12:26
This year, The First Robotics Team 1153 from Walpole Massachusetts celebrates 10 years of engineering, creativity, and innovation.
January 21, 2012
Thank you to everyone for participating in the raffle! Congratulations to Mark Howard for winning the Patriots’ tickets!
About Us
Groups and Mentors
Our team is divided into four different groups based on which aspect of the robot they work on. To discover more about what each group does visit this page.
History
The Walpole RoboRebels; team 1153 of Walpole, Massachusetts; have been a team since 2002. Since then, we have grown from a couple of teenage kids and a visionary teacher to a much larger group that involves the mentors, parent volunteers, and of course the students themselves. In the beginning, we struggled as we adapted to the FIRST environment, but with each passing year we have risen to the challenge. For years we have reached out to the community by going to the younger elementary schools in our town. Every week, Juniors and Seniors from our team help the younger students learn about technology through the FIRST Junior LEGO League. We hope to reach out to the younger students so that engineering and technology can spread through our community.
Team Awards
Visit this page to see the awards our team has won over the past couple years. As always, we hope that the length of that page continues to grow! Find out our Scholarship Program click here.
Contact Us
For all inquiries of the website; whether it is a problem you are having or suggestions about what to put on the site, e-mail us at admin@walpolerobotics.org or contact our team founder, Dustin Scott, at: dscott@walpole.k12.ma.us.
What is FIRST?
FIRST is the organization that runs the robotics competitions that we take part in. More importantly however FIRST plays a major role in adding to the science community of our generation as it encourages youth participation in science and technology. They understand that our future is only as good as the next generation makes it, so they promote learning and working together amongst students.
FIRST is an acronym that stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.” They also promote “gracious professionalism,” that is, they encourage competition and learning, but emphasize respect and kindness towards others at the same time. FIRST reaches out to all members of the youth community through its many different leagues. These include the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), the FIRST Tech Challenge(FTC), the FIRST LEGO League(FLL), and the FIRST Junior LEGO League (Jr. FLL). As FIRST explains on their website, “FIRST’s mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication and leadership.” Visit the official FIRST website at: www.usfirst.org.
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Walpole Robotics Calendar
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January 21, 2012
Thank you to everyone for participating in the raffle! Congratulations to Mark Howard for winning the Patriots’ tickets!
April 2, 2010
Blair on Camera
Our own Blair Lichenstein got interviewed by IDG World Magazine at the Boston Regional! Follow this link to see Blair’s time in the spotlight!
October 16, 2010
Beginning up Again
We are starting Robotics this year with many new and magnificent ideas. We now have divided the team into groups to work on certain parts of what we need to make the Robotics team a success. They have the web design group, engineering group, programming group, and the manufacturing group. We are really excited to prepare the team for the upcoming season which will be starting on January 8. We have a wonderful new sponsor, the Natick Labs, so we thank them very much. We are very exited to continue to sponsor two Lego teams. We hope that the doing Lego teams will get the kids excited in doing the Robotics. The website is expanding with fantastic new information for you to find out how much fun the Robotics team really is. If you are a freshman and want to join some clubs, so that you can experience all of what the High School can offer, or if you are an upper classman and just want to see what everyone is talking about; join the extremely enjoyable Walpole Robotics Team. If you are interested see Mr. Scott.
WR
November 13, 2010
Help Wanted: Dignity Optional
Well, it’s that time of the year again folks; the leaves are falling and the new CALENDAR is up on the site (look at that segue! subtle isn’t it?). We’re already scheduling our fundraising event at the local Stop and Shop to raise money necessary for our various excursions to exotic locales such as Rochester and Boston. A search for a replacement is being put out for a new panhandler next year as I will not be present to sell myself to the masses. As usual, self-esteem is not required, and could perhaps hinder your application progress. Some other changes occurring are the new countdown timer on the website (see right column for more information –>) and the new CALENDAR (see, I did it again! I’m unstoppable). We can also infer from the various machine detritus left around the test room that the build team is looking at our Holonomic drive train again, hopefully to fix the bugs so we can glide around the field like a ninja ghost on roller skates in the middle of an ice rink.
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