FIRST Global Challenge Team USA 2018
Breaking News: Team USA wins the Gold Medal for the Zheng Hang Award for Engineering Design, awarded to the team whose robot exhibits excellent engineering and displays elegance and effectiveness during the Challenge. Team USA's robot, "G-Wiz" wins all 8 qualifying matches to win the FIRST Global Challenge Silver Medal.
Background
FIRST® Global Challenge (FGC) 2018's Team USA is comprised of eleven high-school students from Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. The FGC is an "Olympics"-style robotics event where FIRST Global invites one team from each nation to participate in an international challenge. This year the FGC 2018 will take place at Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City from August 15-18. The FGC goal is to foster understanding and cooperation among the youth of the world as they use their abilities to to solve the world's problems. Our team's mission is to share our love of STEM and bring awareness of the need for STEM education globally.
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Our Team
The members of the team are part of FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) team 9794, Wizards.exe (http://wizards-exe.weebly.com/). At the 2017-2018 FTC World Championship in Detroit, the team was honored to win the Inspire Award, recognizing the top FTC team for excellence in robot design, engineering process, and outreach to the corporate and local community. The "Wizards" have advanced to the FTC World Championship in each of the past three years (2015-2018). Many of our members have been a part of championship FIRST® Lego League teams Mindstorm Masterminds, Organized Kaos, and Probemasters. Mindstorm Masterminds competed in the 2015 FIRST Championship in St. Louis. Organized Kaos won the Maryland State Championship and was invited to the 2016 Open European Championship in Spain. Probemasters were invited to the 2016 Arkansas Razorback Invitational.
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We love to share our passion for robotics and STEM through on-line training sessions, mentoring other teams, outreach to the community, and connecting with corporate mentors. We advocate for STEM programs in K-4th grade and have started 17 FLL Jr. teams in local elementary schools. We mentor a rookie hearing-impaired rookie FTC team and are part of an initiative to promote STEM in the hearing-impaired community. Through FIRST Global, we advised Team Palestine in 2017 and Team Bosnia Herzegovina and Team Comoros in 2018. We want to share our experiences with others and if you would like to Skype or meet with us please contact us at [email protected]. We can’t wait to meet all the teams in Mexico City.
Support Us
It is an honor and privilege to represent our country, but we need to raise funds to register, travel, and construct our robot. The estimated cost for sending the team to this event is $25,000. We need to raise these funds in the next month to be able to pay for registration and secure our spot at the competition. We are currently looking for sponsors and donations.
The donations are tax deductible through Rockville Robotics, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization.
The donations are tax deductible through Rockville Robotics, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization.
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