Oct 2026
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120reached
FIRST Tech Challenge · Team 3540 · Hewlett, NY
RoboBoogie
Every September, FIRST hands out a new game. Every April, somebody wins it. In between, a room full of high schoolers builds a robot and finds out how much we actually know.
[ ]Students on the team
165People reached
[ ]Teams helped worldwide
[ ]Seasons competed
Nobody hands you a manual
FIRST gives every team the same game and the same twelve-foot field in September. What happens after that is entirely ours. We CAD the mechanisms, print and machine the parts, write the autonomous routines, and then rebuild whatever snaps at the first qualifier.
Students do the work. Mentors ask hard questions and then get out of the way. Roughly half of what we build in a season gets thrown out, which turns out to be the part that teaches you the most.
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[Robot photo. Plain background, even light, shot straight on — this is the picture sponsors and judges actually look at.]
BIOBUZZ presented by RTX
This year's robot
Every number below is something we measured, argued about, and changed at least twice.
- Season
- BIOBUZZ / RTX
- Drivetrain
- Parallel Plate Drivetrain
- Scoring mechanism
- [ ]
- Control system
- [ ]
- Autonomous
- [ ]
- Weight
- [ ]
Engineering portfolio and CAD available on request.
Where we've been
We run demos, teach younger students, and help newer teams survive their first build season. Everything below is dated, with an honest count of who it reached.
165people, and counting
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Nov 2026 · most recent
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45people reached
Our outreach project
We built BoogieConnects
Every FTC team hits the same walls, and almost all of them hit those walls alone. So our students built the thing they wished existed: a place where a team can post a problem and get an answer from someone who already solved it.
[ ]Teams registered
[ ]Questions answered
[ ]Countries
[Screenshot of the forum or mentorship page]
Sponsor the team
A season runs about $X,XXX. Here is exactly where it goes. No overhead, no salaries — it is high schoolers and parts.
[$ ]Registration & event fees
Team registration plus entry for every qualifier we compete in.
Team registration plus entry for every qualifier we compete in.
[$ ]Control system & electronics
Hubs, motors, encoders, sensors. Replaced when they die, which they do.
Hubs, motors, encoders, sensors. Replaced when they die, which they do.
[$ ]Drivetrain & raw stock
Extrusion, gears, belts, filament, and the parts we break learning.
Extrusion, gears, belts, filament, and the parts we break learning.
[$ ]Travel
Only if we advance. Regionals and championship are not local.
Only if we advance. Regionals and championship are not local.
$100
Friend of the team
- Name on this site
- Season wrap-up letter
$250
Bronze
- Logo on this site
- Logo on the pit banner
- Wrap-up letter
$500
Silver
- Everything in Bronze
- Logo on team shirts
- Named in our judging presentation
$1,000+
Gold
- Everything in Silver
- Logo on the robot
- Invitation to a build night
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Build notes
Written from the shop floor by whoever happened to be holding the wrench.
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Sep 20, 2026 · Nate
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