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Dublin Robotics Boosters exists to make the mission of FIRST accessible to as many students as possible within Dublin City Schools through fundraising, hosting events, raising awareness, and other supporting activities. The mission of FIRST is to provide life-changing robotics programs that give young people the skills, confidence, and resilience to build a better world.

 

About Us

The Dublin Robotics Boosters supports programs for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics. These programs include one FIRST Robotics Competition team for all three Dublin High Schools, and FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams for grades 4 through 8. The Dublin Robotics program began with one high school robotics team in 2002 with 25 students under the direction of Greg King. This team, Bad Robots 1014, is still going strong, having recently won the Engineering Inspiration award at the Smokey Mountain Regional. This award allowed Bad Robots to participate in the FIRST World Championship in 2024. In 2007 a pilot program for the elementary schools began with 45 students and four elementary schools participating in FIRST LEGO League. Our program has expanded significantly since then. This year we anticipate sponsoring 11 FIRST LEGO League teams from 8 Dublin elementary schools and 5 middle schools.

The 2025-2026 season is getting started!

Every artifact we uncover holds a story. Each tool, each innovation, each work of art connects us to the people and ideas that came before us. Using STEM skills and teamwork, today we can dig deeper into discoveries than ever before. Join us this year for “Unearthed” where students, grades 4-8, will build and program LEGO robots in order to participate in a fun filled 2 and half minute robot game, create an innovative project and explore FIRST’s core values. Register now to join a Dublin FIRST LEGO League team.

register for the 2025-2026 FLL season

 

FIRST® Robotics Competition teams design, program, and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play in a themed head-to-head challenge. Teams also build a brand, develop community partnerships for support, and work to promote STEM in their local community.

Watch this video from FIRST about FRC to learn more about this world-wide program.

FIRST Robotics Competition will be registering later this year in Dublin, so stay tuned. For more information about FRC in Dublin, contact the VPs of FRC, Dublin Robotics Boosters.

Upcoming Events

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December 30, 2025

  • [FLL/FRC] FLL scrimmage

    December 30, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Dublin Coffman High School, 6780 Coffman Rd, Dublin, OH 43017, USA

    The Dublin FRC team will be hosting a scrimmage night for all the local FLL teams, so they can practice for the upcoming competitions. This is a great opportunity to test out the Lego robots and practice all the tournament etiquette before it really counts.

    Location: Coffman Highschool, near the school library.

January 8, 2026

  • [FLL/FRC] FLL tournament setup

    January 8, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Dublin Jerome High School, 4RMG+5G, 8300 Hyland-Croy Rd, Dublin, OH 43016, USA

    The Dublin FRC team, Bad Robots, will be volunteering their time to set up for the FLL competition. Rather than meeting as a team on the day of the FRC game reveal, they will make sure the FLL teams in central Ohio have a successful and exciting experience.

    Meet in the commons.

January 9, 2026

  • [FLL/FRC] FLL competition

    January 9, 2026 @ 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Dublin Jerome High School, 4RMG+5G, 8300 Hyland-Croy Rd, Dublin, OH 43016, USA

    The FLL competition will be held all day Saturday! FRC team members will be volunteering to ref, judge, greet, and other tasks that make this day possible for the central Ohio FLL teams.

    The competition takes place in and around the commons.

    Ending time is approximate. FRC team members will also be helping tear down and clean up.

March 18, 2026

  • [FRC] Buckeye Regional Competition

    March 18, 2026 - March 21, 2026 @ 

    This will be the FRC team's first of two competitions. We will take a bus up on Wednesday, stay in a hotel during the competition, then bus back on Saturday after closing ceremony. More details about required forms, travel, and lodging will be sent out when we have those details figured out.

    https://sites.google.com/view/frcbuckeye/home
    https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2026/OHCL

April 2, 2026

  • [FRC] Miami Valley Regional

    April 2, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Cintas Center, 1624 Musketeer Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45207, USA

    This will be the FRC's second competition, which takes place at the exciting Cintas Center venue. It's an experience you won't want to miss.

    We will most likely travel down and back each day on a school bus.

    More details to come.

    https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2026/OHMV