FIRST Robotics Competition team 2383, the Ninjineers hail from American Heritage High School in Plantation, FL. The Ninjineers have been to almost every ROBOTICON event since their founding in 2013
The mission of the American Heritage Engineering & Robotics Program is to inspire students through science, technology, engineering, and math. Our members learn fundamental concepts in these expanding fields as they solve real engineering problems and challenges. Our team also teaches students valuable skills in leadership, business, public relations, and information management.
In August of 2007, Team 2383 started as a small, fifteen-member team with one mentor, limited to the confines of a bus garage at American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida. The club has grown beyond initial imagination; in the ten years, we have expanded to over 160 talented members and mentors from different fields. With our growing success, we moved out of the bus garage and into an engineering lab equipped with a CNC machine, two computer centers, over a hundred different kinds of tools and drills, state-of-the art hardware equipment, and three fully-functional 3D printers.
Check out their 2022 Robot Reveal video below.
The Ninjineers is sponsored by American Heritage Schools and Motorola Solutions.
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.