Team 56 will joinWorld Science Fair

FIRST to present at World Science Festival! Your team is invited to be part of the show. Greetings! FIRST has been invited to be part of the second annual World Science Festival in New York City at Washington Square Park in Manhattan on Sunday, June 14th. Last year this event enabled us to spread the word about FIRST to hundreds and hundreds of families throughout the metropolitan region. We still have a few slots available for FRC teams that would like to be part of this important outreach event. If you have questions or would like more information, please click HERE.   Thank you for all you helping to bring the FIRST experience to kids across New York and New Jersey. Sincerely,   Randy Schaeffer Regional Director World Science Festival Street Fair Sunday, June 14th Washington Square Park in Manhattan (near NYU campus) Set-up -- 7:00am to 8:30am Demonstrations-- 10:00am to 6:00pm For information about the World Science Festival, please click HERE For directions to Washington Square Park, please click HERE Teams can bring their 2008 and/or 2009 machines Pit tables, tents and electricity will be provided Bring balls, tools, batteries, trophies, banners, etc. Wear your team shirts Space will be provided for bots to strut their stuff (not an actual game) The more action the better. To register, please click HERE

Team 56 Picnic

The Team 56 Annual Picnic serves as a Season Finale for the year. 

This year's picnic was held on May 27Th at the Eagles Club in Bridgewater. There was food, fun, videos and photos from the year's accomplishment and of course the Engineer vs. Student volleyball game!

The Engineer vs. Student volleyball game was once again won by the Ethicon Engineers. The students put up a fight during the second of the best two out of three games. Ultimately the engineers took the 2009 title. 

The picnic was fun. It was a last chance for the team to recognize the graduating members of the Robotics Family. Amy, Jess and Kris will be missed. We hope they will return from time to time to say hello or maybe join the team as a mentor. 

Photos from the Picnic to follow..... 

FIRST Night out with the Somerset Patriots

FIRST Robotics Night with the Somerset Patriots

June 1, 2009 @ 7:05 PM

TD Bank Ballpark Bridgewater, NJ

Sponsored by FRC Teams 11 & 56

                             

A Special Social and Fundraising Event for the Entire FIRST Community

 

Teams 11 & 56 would like to invite you and your FRC Teams to join us for a FIRST Robotics Night out at the TD Bank Ballpark!  It’s a great opportunity to come out to the ball park and learn more about our Central Jersey

FIRST Robotics Teams!

 

We hope you will join us!

Tickets are $10 for Field Box Seats behind home plate.

Our teams will receive $5 for each ticket sold!

 

Please come out and support us and the FIRST Community!

Please contact either David Bodmer at dbodmer@mtoliveboe.org or Ms. Robin Kerr at rkerr@bbrook.org for more information.  Or visit the Somerset Patrtiots website at www.somersetpatriots.com to download an order form!

 

Monty Madness

TEAM 56 was the alliance leader for the 2nd seed. Team 56' robot performed extremely well. Thank you to our alliance partners.

Thanks to the Monty Madness team for putting this great event together. Look forward to joining in 2010!

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Event Details:

Monty Madness 2009 will be held at:
Montgomery Township High School 
1016 Route 601
Skillman, NJ 08558-1799

Teams Participating: 

FRC Team 11 - MORT - Mt. Olive High School, Flanders, NJ

FRC Team 25 - Raider Robotix - North Brunswick Twp High School, NJ

FRC Team 56 - Robbe Xtreme - Bound Brook High School, NJ

FRC Team 75 - RoboRaiders - Hillsborough High School, NJ 

FRC Team 102 - Gearheads - Somerville High School, NJ

FRC Team 103 - Cybersonics - Palisades High School, Kintnersville, PA

FRC Team 136 - Killer Kardinals - Plainfield High School, NJ 

FRC Team 219 - Team Impact - Warren Hills Regional HS, Washington, NJ

FRC Team 223 - Xtreme Heat - Lakeland Regional HS, Wanaque, NJ

FRC Team 224 - The Tribe - Piscataway High School, Piscataway, NJ

FRC Team 270 - Deer Park - Deer Park High School, NY

FRC Team 271 - Mechanical Maraduers - Bay Shore High School, NY

FRC Team 293 - SPIKE - Hopewell Valley High School, Hopewell, NJ

FRC Team 303 - Panther Robotics - Bridgewater-Raritan High School, NJ

FRC Team 341 - Miss Daisy - Wissahickon High School, Ambler, PA

FRC Team 369 - RoboBob 2.0 - William E. Grady Tech HS, Brooklyn, NY

FRC Team 371 - Cyber Warriors - Curtis High School, Staten Island, NY

FRC Team 484 - The Haverford Vikings - Haverford HS, Havertown, PA

FRC Team 613 - The RoboWarriors - Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ

FRC Team 694 - StuyPulse - Stuyvesant HS, New York, NY

FRC Team 806 - Brooklyn Blacksmiths - Xavn & Bshp Kearney HS, Brooklyn, NY 

FRC Team 834 - SparTechs - Southern Lehigh HS, Center Valley, PA 

FRC Team 869 - Power Cord - Middlesex High School, NJ 

FRC Team 871 - West Islip Robotechs - West Islip, NY 

FRC Team 896 - Central Blue Steel - Central High School, Newark, NJ 

FRC Team 1089 - Team Mercury - Hightstown High School, NJ

FRC Team 1237 - L.E.S. Cyborgs - University Neighbor HS, New York, NY

FRC Team 1279 - Cold Fusion - Immaculata High School, Somerville, NJ

FRC Team 1302 - Revolution Robotics - Pope John Regional HS, Sparta, NJ

FRC Team 1366 - Roughriders - West Side HS, Newark, NJ

FRC Team 1370 - The Blue Charge - Middletown HS, Middletown, DE

FRC Team 1396 - PYROBOTS - Tottenville High School, Staten Island, NY

FRC Team 1403 - Cougar Robotics - Montgomery Township High School, NJ

FRC Team 1640 - Sab-BOT-age - Downingtn HS E&W, Downingtn & Exton, PA

FRC Team 1647 - Iron Devils - Seneca High School, Tabernacle, NJ

FRC Team 1807 - Redbird Robotics - Allentown, NJ 

FRC Team 1923 - MidKnight Inventors - West Wndsr-Plainsboro HS No, NJ

FRC Team 2016 - Mighty Monkey Wrenches - Ewing High School, NJ

FRC Team 2180 - Zero Gravity - Steinert High School, Hamilton, NJ

FRC Team 2577 - Big Blue Robotics - The Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ

FRC Team 2590 - Nemesis - Robbinsville High School, Robbinsville, NJ

FRC Team 2753 - Team Overdrive - Teen Technology, Bridgewater, NJ

Team 56 Delivers in Atlanta

Team 56 performed exceptionally in Atlanta, GA last week. The team faced fierce competition in the Galileo division where Team 56 made it to the Quarter Finals! 

Team 56 lost to the National Champions during the Galileo Quarterfinal games. Team 56 is proud of the Accomplishment for the 2009 year.

Team Photo in Atlanta

56 in the NEWS

Somerset County FIRST Robotics Competition Teams Competing at championship in Atlanta, Georgia

by Somerset Reporter

Thursday April 16, 2009, 3:05 PM 

Dramatic Photos....

Philadelphia Regional Photos!

Team 56 & 2Train

2Train & MOE

Team Representatives during the Alliance Partnership 56, 365 and 395

Team 56 Recognized by Bound Brook Mayor at Town Hall

The hard work and effort put into creating and maintaining the robot were recognized by the Borough of Bound Brook on March 24th. Bound Brook Mayor, Carey Pilato, and council members recognized the Students and Teachers from Bound Brook High School and also Engineers, Mechanics and Electritian from Ethicon. Members were presented with certificates from the Mayor. 

Congrats Team 56 on making the community proud.

TEAM 56 WINS Philadelphia!

TEAM 56 WINS PHILADELPHIA!

Many MANY Thanks to 2Train Robotics (Team 395) and the Amazing MOEs (Team 365) for picking us. We hope to partner with you in Atlanta. 

Photos/Details/etc to Follow. The team would like to thank everyone involved in making the Philadelphia Regional possible. Thank you.

Team 56 is headed to PHILLY

Team 56 is ready and excited about the upcoming PHILADELPHIA regional. 

The regional will be held in Philadelphia on March 19th, 20th and 21th. 

The team is looking forward to the regional in hopes of winning another event!

Good luck to all teams!!!

ROBBE Making the Headlines

ROBBE Xtreme Makes the Headlines....

Robotics teams from Bound Brook, Bridgewater area, heading to top competition in Atlanta  (BY KARA L. RICHARDSON • STAFF WRITER • MARCH 16, 2009 on mycentraljersey.com)

On March 6th, 7th and 8th the teams set out to the Jacob Javits Center for the New York regionals.







Congrats Team 56 on WINNING the competition and also taking home the Motorola Quality Award!!!

COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT- OPERATION SHOEBOX

On February 21, the robotics team set out to Manville to take part in Operation Shoebox New Jersey. The mission of this all-volunteer organization is to arrange the acquisition and shipment of personal items to our brave men and women serving overseas.

For this event, all the volunteers worked in a sort of assembly line, placing item after item into ziplock bags to be boxed and shipped to U.S. troops. It turned out to be a huge success, and our team really enjoyed participating in it.

February 14, 2009

It was on Valentine's Day that the backdrop for the pit area was finally completed. The photojournalism group decided to carry on team 56's superhero theme throughout the backdrop with pictures and information in a comic-like form. We also created some signs to hold up at competition, showing the spirit we have for our team. Things were beginning to get packed up in boxes for shipping, and in the end, we were pretty satisfied with ourselves.

February 11, 2009

The web design team had one of their proudest moments on Wednesday the 11th when they finally got team56.com up on the web. We all appreciate the time and effort they put into the site; the end result looked even better than we had imagined. Great work, guys!

February 7, 2009

Saturday the 7th was a rare meeting in which the team split up in two different places to get some necessary work done. With the drive and design subgroup gone doing technical work, the rest of the team gathered at Bound Brook High School to work on buttons and other hand-outs for the competitions.

January 31, 2009

By the end of the January 31st meeting, when the team gathered give a progress update on all the work going on, each subgroup was pleasantly surprised to see how far the others had gotten. With each group having so many tasks to tackle on their own, we tended to lose notice of how much our friends had on their plates, so it was nice to finally share our progress with the team as a whole.

January 28, 2009

Bound Brook High School was off today for a snow day, and, as a result, Team 56 got a break as well.

January 26, 2009

On Monday we were amazed to see how progressed the robot was becoming. Web design was working on some awesome slideshow videos; photojournalism was taking care of odds and ends like picture sorting, typing answers and finishing up the subgroup write-ups, and marketing was busy making endless buttons.

January 24, 2009

The team decked out in red for the group photo on Saturday, which was taken in between all the tasks everyone was working on.

January 21, 2009

Back to work on Wednesday, Marketing made some phone calls for community service offers such as girl scouts, and web design got some work done on the logo.

January 19, 2009

We had the day off today for MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!

January 17, 2009

On Saturday, the team questionnaires were handed out and answered, and we each posed for individual and subgroup pictures to go on the website.

January 14, 2009

While the marketing team was busy coming up with community service ideas, sponsors for the t-shirts, and t-shirt designs, the drive and design team was continually making progress on their strategies…

January 12, 2009

On Monday, Dan “Sunshine” Avery won the human player game. The photojournalism team got the hang of setting up the backdrop for the pit area in less than five minutes, and the marketing team began work on the Chairman’s Award…

January 10, 2009

On our second Saturday meeting, the marketing team was busy coming up with options for this year’s theme, and then all of the robotics members came together to vote on the ultimate decision. Many members were attached to the idea of dressing as high-style secret agents, while others got excited to wear the equally stylish 80s basketball short-shorts, but the final resolution was to sport capes and masks as Robbe Xtreme superheroes. This wonderful blog you are currently reading also got its first dose of attention from the photojournalism crew on Saturday the 10th, as did the new website layout by the web design team…

January 7, 2009

We were first introduced to this year’s prototype on the Wednesday meeting, and we had driver and human player tryouts for anyone in the group who wanted to try. With each new attempt at driving we discovered new tactics of maneuvering the robot…

January 5, 2009

On Monday, we reviewed more videos to get a clearer idea of what Lunacy is all about, re-examined and utilized what ideas worked and didn’t work from previous years, and ultimately set out prioritize our ideas from the kickoff meeting…

January 3, 2009

At the kickoff meeting, we heard speeches from many of the most well-known individuals in the First program, watched video clips from previous years and devoured plenty of muffins and pizza; but of course the most focal part of the day was learning about the 2009 game. The rules to this year’s unique competition were enforced by a very amusing, apparently lost episode of “Who Wants To Be An Engineer,” and the required “cells” and wheels for the robot were passed around the crowd. We then split up into three groups to brainstorm what we each thought were the most important things the robot must have and do…