Hewlett’s original robotics team
Founded in 2009, RoboBoogie has given generations of Hewlett students a place to build, experiment, and grow.
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.
16Students on the team
—People reached
22Teams helped worldwide
17Seasons 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.
Every September, we meet and discuss plans for the season and get started with prototyping. Throughout the season we constantly are changing our ideas and coming up with new, original ideas to be the best team we can be!
BIOBUZZ presented by RTX
This year's robot
- Season
- BIOBUZZ / RTX
- Drivetrain
- Parallel Plate Drivetrain
- Scoring mechanism
- Turret Launching System
- Control system
- NextFTC Library
- Autonomous
- Pedro Pathing Library
Engineering portfolio and CAD available on request.
Where we've been
In FIRST, outreach means more than helping other teams. It means spreading FIRST through our whole community. So we do a lot of it close to home: running demos, teaching younger students, and showing people what a FIRST season is really like. Everything below is dated, with an honest count of who it reached.
—people, and counting
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.
18Teams registered
9States Reached
Built by teams. For teams.Good ideas
Good ideas
travel together.
Ask a question. Share a solution.
Build something better.
Small team. Lasting impact.
Why support RoboBoogie?
Hewlett’s first robotics team. Building since 2009. Still just getting started.
We are FTC Team 3540 at Hewlett High School. Our team of students design, build, and program our competition robot, then share what we learn with other teams. We're active in our local community promoting not only STEM education but other topics important to our neighbors. We're also global, making engineering inroads in countries across the world. Your donation puts tools, parts, and competition opportunities in our hands—and helps the next generation of student engineers get their start.
16Students building today
22Teams helped worldwide
17Seasons of experience
Beyond our home field
This past season we competed at the New England Premier Event, bringing Hewlett’s student engineering to a wider stage. We were proud to take home the first place Reach Award at this international competition.
Inspire Award winners
2025 First-place Inspire Award winner - the highest FTC robotics honor and a milestone in our team’s history.
Sponsor the team
A season runs about $20,000-30,000. Your support keeps students building. Here is where it goes.
$500Registration & event fees
Team registration plus entry for every qualifier we compete in.
Team registration plus entry for every qualifier we compete in.
$6,000Hardware
All of the hardware that we build with throughout the season.
All of the hardware that we build with throughout the season.
$25,000Travel
Premiers and championships are not local, and we would need to travel to compete.
Premiers and championships are not local, and we would need to travel to compete.
RoboBoogie is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 81-2908499. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Make checks payable to The Hack Foundation, with "FTC Team 3540 RoboBoogie" in the memo line.
Thank you to our sponsors
Motors sponsors
The Schwartz Family
Gears sponsors
Build notes
Written from the shop floor by whoever happened to be holding the wrench.
Sep 22, 2026 · Leo
First Season Bot CAD Completed
We have completed a preliminary CAD! It includes a robot-wide intake, a wide-range turret shooter, and goBilda pinpoint odometry.