ALARM Robotics wins 2nd place at BSU competition! (video)

4H ALARM Robotics won the 2nd place finalist award with its alliance partners while competing with 36 other FRC teams at the NE District BSU Event 2024.

ALARM Robotics is a local non-profit community team which has been mentoring students in robotics since 2007 and is set up in Franklin’s very own historic Red Brick School. ALARM stands for ‘A Lot of Awesome Robot Makers’. The team participates in FRC–-FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION run by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). We accept students from 8th to 12th grade from Franklin and neighborhood towns. 

 

The FIRST Robotics Competition is a mix of sports and engineering. It is a crossfit workout for the muscle upstairs!  Here students get to learn how to build robots, specifically machining, computer aided design and programming. Teams design a new robot every season, the theme of this season was “Crescendo”

ALARM Robotics wins 2nd place at BSU competition!

The 4H ALARM team participates in competitions in the New England area. After the game kick-off in January, the students and mentors work for over 9 weeks, sometimes putting in over 20-30 hours every week to design, build and program a robot for doing specific tasks for the challenge.

Our robot, Hydra, is a 120 lbs. robot programmed to pick up and shoot foam notes into a target area. Its name was inspired by the mythical immortal beast with immense power. At Bridgewater State University, our robot was flawless in placing the shot and rarely missed or bounced. Much like any other sport, the goal is for the robots to score maximum points throughout the 2:30 minute game. At the end of each of the 3v3 matches, the robots have to hang on a “stage” during the endgame.

Hydra, is a 120 lbs. robot

4H ALARM Robotics has been teaching robotics at the Franklin Public Library over the past few months and they presented their outreach work at the competition and also won the Team Spirit Award. This award "celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST”.

The team's next competition will be at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from March 29,30,31st. 

4H ALARM Robotics is supported by generous sponsors- Dassault Systemes, Pratt & Whitney, TE Connectivity, Gene Haas Foundation, General Dynamics-Mission Systems, Mathworks, Natural Resources Management, Tib Family and partners 4H and the Franklin Public Library. 

Students participating in FIRST Robotics Competitions are eligible to apply for nearly $22 million in scholarships from more than 200 colleges and universities.