Team 836 The RoboBees has found a new home thanks to the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Stachelczyk, and Mr. Wayne Boothe of Boothe’s Heating and Air. Our building, appropriately named The Stachelczyk S.T.E.M. Center, located at 43883 Airport View Drive Hollywood, Maryland will also serve to hold various STEM… Read More »The Hive has moved
Hear ye! Hear ye! Lords and Ladies, Lads and Lasses, gather thine knights, horses, and armor and get thy kingdom prepared for an epic battle of strategy! Art thou armies ready?! With some trepidation the students filed into the conference room of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers… Read More »Let the games begin!
Today is the day! At 10:30AM EST we will learn about this FRC season’s game, STRONGHOLD. Below is the teaser post that was provided back in October to get everyone excited about the upcoming season. We will be updating this post with our thoughts and views on the game once… Read More »2016 Kickoff – STRONGHOLD
During the first annual Maryland STEM Festival and Expo, FIRST Team 836, The RoboBees hosted robot demonstrations. The Expo was from 9am to 4pm on November 14th. Throughout the day, The RoboBees demonstrated Bee’s Modé, the 1st place winner of the 2014 Pittsburgh Regional Competition. This helped to reach out to children… Read More »Maryland STEM Festival and Expo
This past Saturday (Nov 7th) the FIRST Robotics Team 836, the RoboBees competed in Newport News, Virginia at the Rumble in the Roads off-season event. The event was a mimic of a 2015 Regional of Recycle Rush. Each robot joined an alliance that took turns stacking as many totes and recycling… Read More »Rumble In the Roads
Contrary to past years, FIRST has decided to release a teaser trailer for the upcoming 2016 FRC season. Please view the teaser trailer below and let us know your thoughts! All I can say is that I know we are looking forward to seeing what the Game Design Committee has… Read More »FIRST STRONGHOLD – 2016 Teaser Trailer!
This year’s open enrollment meeting will be held on October 22nd at 6pm. We will be holding this meeting at the Lexington Park Library! This will be an informational session for prospective students to learn about the team and register to be part of the program for the upcoming 2016 FIRST… Read More »Open Enrollment – 2016 Season
This past week (4/24 – 4/25) The RoboBees attended the FIRST Championship in St. Louis. After our great showing at the Chesapeake Regional, the team came home with a plan forward on how they wanted to progress forward to make the largest impact / have the robot perform at it’s peak during… Read More »St. Louis – FRC Championships
The RoboBees are competing at the 2015 Palmetto Regional this weekend. We are excited to see all of the other robots and witness our own robot in competition action. NASA is providing a live web broadcast of this event. You can watch the webcast and cheer us on from home… Read More »The 2015 Palmetto Regional
The 2015 game has been released, Recycle Rush! Click on the logo to find out more information about Recycle Rush!