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Absolute Zero
 

FTC Team #12096

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"we  push our limits to accomplish The impossible."

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NEWS:

Our team has qualified for Virginia State Championship at the Shenandoah Qualifier. We were awarded the First Place Alliance and Connect award.

What is FIRST Tech Challenge?
It’s way more than building robots. FIRST® Tech Challenge teams (10+ members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format. Participants call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have!” Guided by adult Coaches and Mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles (like keeping an engineering notebook), while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and sharing ideas. The robot kit is reusable from year-to-year and can be programmed using a variety of languages, including Java. Teams also must raise funds, design and market their team brand, and do community outreach for which they can win awards. Participants have access to tens of millions of dollars in college scholarships. Each season concludes with Super-Regional Championships and an exciting  FIRST  Championship.

Our Core Values:
• We display GRACIOUS PROFESSIONALISM® with everyone we engage with and in everything we do. 
• We act with integrity. 
• We have fun. 
• We are a welcoming community of students, Mentors, and Volunteers. 
• What we learn is more important than what we win. • We respect each other and celebrate our diversity. 
• Students and adults work together to find solutions to challenges. 
• We honor the spirit of friendly competition. 
• We behave with courtesy and compassion for others at all times.
 • We act as ambassadors for FIRST and FIRST Tech Challenge.
 • We inspire others to adopt these values.

 

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

-Robert A. Heinlein
 

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