FIRST Robotics Competition team 4065, Nerds of Prey, hails from Minneola, FL in Lake County, northwest of Orlando. The team was founded in 2011 as Nerds of Prey Robotics when Lake Minneola High School opened as a newly built school serving the Minneola and Clermont communities of South Lake County, Florida.
The mission of Nerds of Prey is to Educate, Empower, and Excel. Together, students and mentors aim to “educate not only our team but our community in technical and soft skills; we will empower our local youth to achieve new heights in their own programs; and we will excel competitively in the FIRST Robotics Competition community.”
Nerds of Prey captained the ROBOTICON Winning Alliance in 2019 and also took home the Team Spirit Award! We’re excited to have this great team back at ROBOTICON again this year.
Our FIRST Robotics Competition teams will be playing the game “Rapid React“, which is played by two alliances of three teams each, with each team controlling a robot and completing specific challenges in order to score points.
The main scoring elements are “Cargo,” represented by over-sized tennis balls, about the size of a soccer ball, which teams vie to shoot into a central Hub and then a climbing challenge that provides extra points at the end of a match, depending on high up the hangar assembly their robots can go before the buzzer signals the end of the match. The overall objective of each match is to score more points than the opposing alliance before the match ends.
You can enjoy a full weekend of Rapid React gameplay at ROBOTICON, at University Mall (soon to be RITHM at Uptown) , in Tampa, FL, October 8 & 9!
There will also be an Innovation Fair for all to enjoy and opportunities to learn how to get involved in or start teams in your school or community. ROBOTICON Tampa Bay is free and open to the public. Visit our event page to see the schedule for our Manufacturing Month event, which will feature different competitive robotics programs each weekend in October! Teams interested in registering can do so HERE.