Rocket Robotics

WHO ARE WE?

Rocket Robotics is a FIRST Robotics Competition ( FRC ) team that was founded in 2011. Since then it has undergone some changes, like the structure of the team changing, some mentors joining the team and some leaving. During the first year of competing, the team won the Rookie All-star Award, which was during the Logo-motion competition. Currently, the team has been at every single competition since then, striving to do better each year! Right now, the team is located in the South Milwaukee Middle School, which provides the housing for our equipment and robot, as well as some of the tools we use to create it. Caterpillar has also been a major supporter throughout the team's history, supplying funds, materials, and mentors, like our lead mentors: Nathan Colgrove and Adam Fleming.

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WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF THE TEAM?

While the FRC competition was created to have teams compete against each other, the main focus was to educate students and make more students interested in engineering and becoming future engineers. Additionally, teams can teach students about the business world, via things like marketing and graphic design, as those aspects of a business or corporation are important to know. Overall Robotics provides many opportunities to gain practical experience that are not otherwise available to high school students. It's important that there are opportunities to grow and develop these skills.

WHAT'S NEW IN 2024-2025?

Our 2025 FRC season has officially ended! We have participated in TWO Regionals this year! The Central Illinois, and the Wisconsin Regional. We decided to attend another regional competition because we had secured enough sponsors to support us, and it would help us identify both the strengths and weaknesses of our robot for the upcoming regional. Additionally, we were eager to showcase our robot. However the Wisconsin Regional was the most eventful regional. Some of our team members were working extra hard to get one of the awards this season and… WE DID!! We were the winners of the spirit award, making our first win in a while! We’re so grateful for getting this award, and we extend our congratulations to everyone else who has also been recognized! Good luck to all the teams who have made it to Worlds! This off-season we will be attending around 4 different off season events. We will be having a few new surprising features for our bot! So make sure you get updated on our instagram!

Rocket Boosters Non-Profit

May 30, 2024

The Rocket Boosters, Inc. is the booster organization supporting Rocket Robotics. It consists of parents and community members who want to provide support to the team in various ways. One of the main elements of FIRST Robotics is partnership with the community which is where all of our volunteer mentors and funding comes from. Many programs including our own are completely funded by donations and grants. Even though we are housed within the South […]

2020 Infinite Recharge Season Start

January 17, 2020

Kick-Off has ended, and competition season for FIRST Robotics has begun. The Team has received the rules for this year’s Star Wars-themed Infinite Recharge game. We have now begun planning and building our robot. One of the tasks we are designing for the robot to complete is shooting balls into a tall tower. This is will be our first priority to start designing. (Jackson Eckert, Ethan Deibert, Emma Nall, Emili Gaqo) As seen above, […]

2019 Season Early progress

January 22, 2019

Right now it is January 22 2019 meaning we have had just over 2 weeks to work on our bot. We already have a working and driving frame for our bot as well as a camera that connects to our computers allowing us to practice driving in the other rooms. We also have designed and are working on the parts for a crane structure that will have a multi propose tool to grab both the […]

Our 2018 Rocket Robotics Season has Started!

September 20, 2018

Our team has just kicked off our 2018 robotics season! We have many days to come in this season but we are very excited for this year and what is yet to come. This years theme is Deep Space and the season is just getting started.

Our New Room

July 10, 2018

Our team has recently moved out of the South Milwaukee High School’s Fab Lab and into a new room in the middle school. This move was much needed for the team as it has given us much more space to do our work and many more storage opportunities.

Quick Update

December 20, 2016

Hey, Spencer here. The programming team has currently been working on our test robot trying to get our encoders to work with autonomous. We managed to get our CAN motor controllers to work properly as well.

Training Day!

December 6, 2016

Last Saturday, four of our team members and three mentors went to a training day for Wisconsin FRC teams. There are 8 new rookie teams in Wisconsin this year. So congratulations to the new teams! The four of us learned many things like safety procedures and game concepts. Even our mentors learned new things. We thank Waukesha County Technical College for hosting this event. And we are excited to be there again for kickoff.

Fixing Hedgeknight

October 26, 2016

Hedgeknight, our competition bot from last season’s Stronghold is getting adjustments. These adjustments include, but not limited to: Motor tweaking, fixing bugs in code, and getting our latch swapped out so the robot can launch the boulders. The robot was not driving straight and we fixed that. And we hope to get the comp bot back in shape in time for the free event we are attending later in November.

A New Year, A New Challenge

October 1, 2016

The Competition is 2017 STEAMWORKS and we are super excited about it. This year is especially unique because FIRST gave every team a DLC pack to check out with all kinds of goodies like logos and information.

Robotics Mini-Update

March 16, 2016

The Rocket Robotics team has been working hard to make sure that the Robot will be able to function when competition comes, which will be next week. However, something exciting has happened: the mayor has come to join us! We showed him some of the stuff we can do, especially the robot for this year. At the end, we took a group photo!