Unfortunately, we’ve had to cancel our camp for this summer. Our team is small and its members are all busy with summer jobs this summer. We hope to build our ranks this year and offer a summer camp again next year.
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We plan to resume our robotics camp this summer! It’s a mini-FRC season packed into a week. We’ll spend a day one getting up to speed. Kick-off (and the game reveal) will be at noon on day two with build continuing through the morning of day five. The competition will be day five. Campers will form teams to design and build their own robots using the Lego EV3 platform. Teams will compete both on robotics performance and their ability to explain their design, strategy and approach to teamwork to judges who will visit them in their pits during the competition (just like at and FRC event).
Camp will run 8:30 to 12:30 Monday through Friday. The competition will start at 1:00 on Friday.
Check the bIrobot website for additional details and to sign up to be notified when online registration becomes available.
Please remember that FIRST is more than robots. Campers will also design team logos, banners and buttons. No prior programming or robotics experience is required, but campers with prior experience will be equally challenged.
Our second FIRST Robotics district competition will be at Traverse City Central High School. This will be a great event for island fans to attend. 
Here is a map to the competition site: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Traverse+City+Central+High+School/@44.7674623,-85.5901272,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x881fd2a7a3a47717:0x8eec89c4d972e453!8m2!3d44.7674585!4d-85.5879385
You can find out more about FIRST and BICS’s FRC Team #6098 bIrobot at birobot.org. Team members and parents, please check our Discord site for hotel and travel details.
Coming out of our second District event in TC it looks like we might have a chance at making it to the FIM State Championship event. We’re saving the date just in case. We’ll plan to watch even if we don’t attend. You can watch here:
https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires31
https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires32
https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires33
https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires34
We are saving the date for FIRST Worlds just in case. And, because we plan to watch in all events. There is more info here: https://www.firstchampionship.org.
Unfortunately, we need to cancel plans for our summer robotics plant. Our mentors and students are over-subscibed with work and projects this summer, so we will not have time to organize a full camp. We are working to plan a two-day “get to know robotics” session later in August or September for students on the island. Please visit our website at birobot.org for more information.
We plan to resume our robotics camp next summer!
We came with in a few points of making it to the state championship event last season. We’re saving the date becaue this year we plan to make it! We’ll plan to watch even if we don’t attend. There will be more information (including details on how to watch) here: https://www.firstinmichigan.org/.
We are saving the date for FIRST Worlds just in case. And, because we plan to watch in all events. There is more info here: https://www.firstchampionship.org.
We are working on plans for our summer robotics camp. Right now, it looks like we will have enough older students to be mentors and run the camp. We plan to run a mini FRC season (in a week) and use VEX VR and the related physical robots for the competition.
Check back in May for final details and sign-up information.
We came with in a few points of making it to the state championship event last season. We’re saving the date becaue this year we plan to make it! We’ll plan to watch even if we don’t attend. There will be more information (including details on how to watch) here: https://www.firstinmichigan.org/.
We are saving the date for FIRST Worlds just in case. And, because we plan to watch in all events. There is more info here: https://www.firstchampionship.org.
