All Girls Robotics Team

Nemonoid Robotics was founded as part of the Billings Career Center Engineering Club.  Our team is built from girls participating in one of the three engineering classes at the Career Center.  As a group we strive towards promoting math, science, and engineering in the community through different events.  Since we are an all girls group we are especially interested in sparking interest in these fields for young girls, by showing them that it is a fun and rewarding career path.  All of us plan to use the skills we have learned through this experience and apply them later in life.

FIRST Tech Challenge

FTC is designed for those who want to compete head to head, using a sports model. Teams of up to 10 students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. The robot kit is reusable from year-to-year and is programmed using a variety of languages. Teams, including coaches, mentors, and volunteers, are required to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles. Awards are given for the competition as well as for community outreach, design, and other real-world accomplishments.

Students get to: 

  Design, build, and program robots
  Apply real-world math and science concepts
  Develop problem-solving, organizational, and team-building skills
  Compete and cooperate in alliances and tournaments
  Earn a place in the World Championship
  Qualify for nearly $9.7 million in college scholarships

The FTC Game

FIRST Tech Challenge teams will participate in the Ring it Up! Challenge for the 2012‐13 season. Each game match is made up of two distinct types of play – driver‐controlled and autonomous.  Each tournament features alliances of two teams playing side‐by‐side on the playing field.   Alliance partners will compete to score the most points by placing plastic rings onto pegs on the center rack. Teams will also be challenged to detect special "weighted" rings to earn a special multiplier bonus. The end game consists of lifing the other alliance robot off of the ground as high as possible.

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