Next up in our ROBOTICON Team Spotlight, meet FIRST Robotics Competition team 5557 – the BB-R8ERS!
“We are Team 5557, the BB-R8ERS (“BB-8” and “Gulliver Raiders” combined). Our team comprises high school students from 9th to 12th Grade from Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, Florida. As the BB-R8ERS, we strive to design, program and create the best robot we can make by participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition while fully emphasizing teamwork, student leadership, and gracious professionalism. We aim to promote learning and cooperation within the team and with other teams.”
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 through September 30.