2019 Kickoff Event
We gathered before 7:00 am on Saturday, January 5th for the live video broadcast on the FIRST Twitch channel, joining 3,700 FRC teams around the globe, including 436 Rookie teams! We also sent two student members – team Co-Captain and Marketing lead Chris Mentzer and freshman Mechanical subteam member Mitchell Teresi – and Mentor Kevin Hawkins to […]
Guess who was at the Qualcomm Worlds Pizza Party? Spartronics, Dean + Don!!
Qualcomm, a Sponsor of Spartronics through the amazing local support of Qualcomm’s Andy Rimkus, a Bainbridge Islander, invited us to a pizza party Wednesday night at the FIRST Robotics Worlds Championships in Houston. Garrett Ponder, Senior Manager of Marketing (Strategic Partnerships/Sponsorships) at Qualcomm and a California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo graduate (where we have several Spartronics either […]
Save the date – Open House is coming up + We’re halfway through the build season
Open House Last year our 2nd annual open house garnered over 500 attendees, and we hope to bring in even more this year. Open House is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2nd from 6 – 8 pm, with all our local Robotics teams — students from grades 4th through 12th including FIRST Robotics FLL, FTC and FRC teams participating! […]
2016 FRC Kickoff – Stronghold
Today FIRST revealed our new challenge, STRONGHOLD. This game combines a mix of defence, assault, and adaptation techniques. Throughout the different matches our robot will have to adapt to different defence configurations, as the audience is allowed to choose the defense elements. This will be hard, as there are over 10,000 different combinations! At the […]