About Servite Robotics
Mission Statement: FIRST Team 3309–Servite Friarbots are dedicated to making their process of creation, planning, engineering education, collaboration and robotics competitions all reflect the core values and elements of the Servite Formation Themes. Those themes are Primacy of Faith, Mastery of Self, Necessity of the Other, and Centrality of Christ.
Servite Robotics was established to enter a team in the FIRST Robotics Competition to help expand Servite High School’s math and science programs. We believe that participating in FIRST provides a unique challenge to the students at Servite High School, Cornelia Connelly High School, and Rosary High School, and enables them to show their talent at a national and international level. Furthermore, we believe that participating in FIRST teaches students how to work in a team environment and collaborate between the various committees that make up the team. By competing in the FIRST Robotics competition, we hope to give students the opportunity to garner experience in the fields of engineering and programming to assist them with future careers
Team 3309 is comprised of 10 different committees in charge of the various aspects of the team’s function, including public relations, fundraising, design, construction, programming, and controlling. Each team works closely with an adult mentor who has experience in a related field, and who is able to guide the students in the more technical aspects of their work. Each of these four teams are captained by an experienced student who is able to further structure and guide the direction of the project.
The Servite Robotics team has the support of several sponsors and mentors from Raytheon, Canon, and other regional companies, as well as a large group of parents dedicated to making the team a success.
Participation in FIRST allows Servite students to utilize and broaden their understanding of today’s technology. It gives them the opportunity to apply their knowledge of mathematics and science. Students learn to work together and focus their skills in many areas including computer science, physics, and engineering. At the present time, this is the only technology-based team or club at our school, and it provides a unique opportunity for students.
The Servite team is greatful to have the support of the school administration, who have been instrumental in organizing and facilitating the details surrounding Servite Robotics.
At Servite, we lead by example. It is this concept of leadership that sets us apart from other teams. Through our four year Formation Program at Servite, we learn that dedication and determination lead to success. We are able to lead by the implementation of the priory system, which allows students to take initiative in planning and organizing events that the student body will participate in. Servite’s mission statement focuses on the formation of students into leaders. We bring this dedication, determination, and leadership to the design and creation of our robot and to the competition.
About FIRST Robotics
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience – and a lot of fun. In 2006, the competition will reach over 28,000 high-school-aged young people on over 1,125 teams in 33 regional events. Teams come from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.
Colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals provide scholarships to our participants. Involved engineers experience again many of the reasons they chose engineering as a profession, and the companies they work for contribute to the community while they prepare and create their future workforce. The competition shows students that the technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are exciting and interesting.
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