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 2026-2027?
Our 2026-27 FRC season has just begun! We are now having meetings every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7:30 pm until January. Our open house will be Thursday September 10th, and Tuesday September 15th. If you are interested in joining or how to join Robotics please come to door 49 in the middle school. It will be from 6-7:30. The cut-off for joining Robotics is October 29th, so if you'd like to join, do so before then!
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Our FTC team was started in 2026, they are currently a rookie team. They competed in two district events this year, they didn't win either. FTC is a middle school "transition" team, when kids from FLL want to progress further they move up to FTC and eventually when they go to high school they have the option to join FRC.