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Our Teams

The Club promotes science, technology, engineering, and math in the Whidbey Island area through its support of student robotics teams affiliated with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST inspires young people to be leaders in science and technology by engaging students in exciting, mentor-based research and robotics programs. FIRST programs increase student interest in STEM by providing hands-on learning, experience working as a team on real-life problems, exposure to careers and adult mentors, emphasis on FIRST Core Values, and a culminating celebration where students can showcase what they created and learned. Worldwide, FIRST engages more than 650,000 students on more than 70,000 robotics teams across five age groups.

The Club provides support and organization to FIRST Robotics teams across all age levels in the Oak Harbor School District and throughout the Whidbey Island area. In the 2022-23 season, we supported one FRC team, two FTC teams, and six FLL Challenge teams in Oak Harbor. Plus, we hosted a pre-competition FLL Challenge event for teams from Oak Harbor, Coupeville, Anacortes, and Port Townsend. All told and including our two weekend-long Lego Camps, we provided opportunities for almost two hundred students to get hands-on robotics experience.

Thanks to the continuing support from our community, we are continuing to grow at a remarkable rate. For 2023-24, we added yet another FTC team and two more FLL Challenge teams, and our FRC team is expanding as well. By the end of this season, we expect to have put robots in the hands of more than 250 Oak Harbor students.

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