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Our Mission

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.

 

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FRC: Sign up for the Smoky Mountain Regional competition trip by March 15!

We’re going back to the Smoky Mountain Regional Competition this year. This is an especially meaningful competition for us, because last season this is where we made it to the finals (only losing to the #1 seed alliance) and won the engineering inspiration award, securing our NASA-sponsored spot at the FIRST World Championship with teams from 50 countries.

We’d love for every student to be able to attend this year. This is really a great opportunity for your student to participate in an exciting competition and bond with their teammates in a chaperoned trip away from home. The Dublin Robotics Boosters and the coaches of team 1014 want to do everything we can to make this trip accessible to any student that wants to attend, so the boosters will be covering around half of the total cost of the trip.

For more information about this, visit our trip sign up page.

sign up for the Smoky Mtn Trip now

 

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The 2024-2025 season is getting started!

School is in session, and that means another fun year of FIRST Robotics. This year’s theme is the ocean inspired FIRST Dive, so don’t be afraid to get your feet wet and join the fun!

The Dublin Robotics Boosters sponsors two types of FIRST teams – FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams for grades 4-8 and our FIRST Robotics Competition high school team, Bad Robot.

FIRST Robotics Competition (grades 9-12)

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 soon in Dublin, so stay tuned. For more information about FRC in Dublin, contact the VPs of FRC, Dublin Robotics Boosters.

register for the 2025 FRC season

 

 

FIRST LEGO League Challenge (grades 4-8)

Friendly competition is at the heart of FLL Challenge, as teams of students grades 4-8 engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering – building and programming a LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime robot that navigates the missions of a robot game. They also participate in a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem.

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

Registration for this season of FLL has closed, but you can sign up to be notified when registration opens for next season.

sign up to be notified about 2025-2026 FLL

 

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