About FIRST Robotics Team 3489
Team 3489 “Category 5” is a FIRST Robotics team located in Summerville, South Carolina, just west of Charleston. We have students from Ashley Ridge and Summerville High Schools, Palmetto Scholars Academy and other charter schools. Our team consists of fun loving and hard working students who know how to get things done! We practice in a professional work environment, the Bosch manufacturing plant. Team 3489 is works in four sub-teams:
- Mechanical Engineering (Design, fabrication, assembly)
- Electrical Engineering (DC controls, wiring)
- Programming (JAVA)
- Multimedia & Outreach (outreach, business development, marketing, 3D animation, photography, web-site development, and more)
Our goals are to learn about new technology and teach others that challenges in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can be great fun!
What Is FIRST Robotics?
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) pairs high-school students with adult mentors (primarily engineers and teachers) to design and build robots that compete against one another in this high energy “Varsity Sport for the Mind™”. Each year at the Kickoff in January, a new, challenging game is introduced. These exciting competitions combine the practical application of science and technology with the fun, intense energy and excitement of a championship-sporting event. Teams are encouraged to display Gracious Professionalism™ and to cooperate while competing – known as “Coopertition™".
In 2015, FRC will reach 73,000 high-school students representing approximately 3,000 teams. FRC teams come from nearly every state in the United States, as well as from Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Turkey and the United Kingdom. FRC teams will participate in 56 Regional Competitions, 44 FRC District Competitions, 5 Qualifying Championships, and approximately 640 deserving teams will qualify to go to the FIRST Championship in the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO.
Students get to:
- Learn from professional engineers
- Build and compete with a robot of their own design
- Learn and use sophisticated software and hardware
- Compete and cooperate in alliances and tournaments
- Earn a place in the World Championship
- Qualify for over $20 million in college scholarships
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2015 FRC Game- Recycle Rush
RECYCLE RUSH is a recycling-themed game designed for the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). It is played by two Alliances of three Teams each. Alliances compete simultaneously to score points by stacking Totes on Scoring Platforms, capping those stacks with Recycling Containers, and properly disposing of Litter, represented by pool noodles, in designated locations. In keeping with the recycling theme of the game, all scoring elements used are reusable or recyclable by teams in their home locations or by FIRST at the end of the season.
