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We are the Rhythm Packed Mechanics

We are a FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team based in Woodbury, Minnesota consisting of fifteen members. Our mission is to excel in engineering a robot that succeeds in competition and to learn valuable skills along the way.

Our Core Values

Discover: We explore new skills and ideas. We cooperate with and support other teams year round.

Innovate: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.

Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world. We learned about other teams outreach projects and plan to attend as many as we can.

Include: We respect each other and embrace our differences. We believe we are stronger when we work together.

Have Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do.

Our History

2017

Formed

Our team was created before the 2017-2018 season of Relic Recovery with over ten members that had varying levels of experience in FTC. This season was a huge learning experience.
2018

Planned

The 2018-2019 Rover Ruckus season started with new plans and ideas including outreach and innovative robot designs. Oh, and we also created a pretty cool logo.
2019

Advanced

During the Rover Ruckus season, we advanced from Regionals to State and even to Worlds! At Worlds, we were even a finalist for the Innovate Award, and several awards at State. It was an amazing year for all of us.
2019

Mentored

The next year, we received an overflow of applicants to join our team thanks to many workshops we had hosted the year prior. Before the start of the 2019-2020 Skystone Challenge, we suddenly had fifteen members on our team, and also a new rookie team to mentor, My Favorite Team! (Yes, that is their name.)
2020

Still Learning!

Working with nine FTC rookies on our team is not easy, but we adjusted to make it work. The new members allowed us to take part in new experiences in almost every area of our team. This year, for the second time, we were graciously invited to the World Competition for winning the Connect Award.

Learn More!

What is FIRST?

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a community that supports young people all over the world with a chance to take part in robotics. They strive to transform the next generation through teamwork, competition, and STEM.

Every year, FIRST leadership creates a unique game--one for every age group--that teams create a robot to participate in. There are four programs in FIRST:

Also, check out the High Tech Kids organization who runs every FLL Jr., FLL, and FTC competition in Minnesota.

Why join FIRST Robotics?

Note: Not all age levels participate in everything we list below.

Technical Skills

Through the challenges FIRST provides, FRC and FTC teams learn to use CAD (Computer Aided Design) and program in Java. These skills are very valuable and will assist students to be successful in the real world.

Lasting Memories

The environment of the competition season creates many team memories of working together for a common goal. FIRST connects teams together through cooperations and competitions, which can form lasting friendships.

Real World Experience

FIRST challenges teams to create, design, and engineer robots using STEM to compete in challenges, but at the same time encourages teams to be sustainable including non-technical work. Examples: photographs, manual creation, and outreach.

Connection to Professionals

Many gracious volunteers commit a large number of hours to help run FIRST events and mentor teams. FIRST provides a connection point for many teams to be able to receive help and advice from industry professionals.

Gracious Professionalism

FIRST promotes gracious professionalism, the idea of acting professional at all times and treating others with respect no matter what happens. This carries over into the future of a student's life.

A Competition Season

FIRST provides many challenging competition seasons from 4th grade to 12th grade. Each season contains a unique challenge that requires a new robot to be designed and built. Competitions provide a friendly and welcoming environment to put the robots to the test.

Our Promote Video

Here is our 2020 FIRST Promote Video answering the question: "How has FIRST changed me?"

We Put Emphasis on Our Community

We find it valuable to invest in the community around us. We have hosted workshops, visited schools, and connected with city. We do this because FIRST is funded by donations and kept alive with new teams. We believe FIRST equips the next generation to become well rounded STEM leaders.

Check our Sustainability in FIRST guide that we have created:

Sponsors

We are very grateful to be in FIRST, and this is only possible from donations. Below are our awesome sponsors that have made this happen; learn more them here. Their donations have made it possible to form new teams and to expand our learning.

Thank you to EVERYONE (parents, mentors, volunteers, and many others) who have helped give our team an amazing opportunity.

If you want to be involved with FIRST and their mission (volunteers are awesome), please navigate to: https://www.firstinspires.org/ or their Minnesota FTC representative at: https://hightechkids.org/.

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Contact Us!

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About RPM

The Rhythm Packed Mechanics, from the Math and Science Academy in Woodbury, Minnesota is a three-year team made up of fifteen members (four girls and eleven boys), ranging from seventh to twelfth grade. This year, we added nine new members to our team, six of whom have been involved in FIRST Lego League (FLL). Through our developing sustainability program, we have facilitated the expansion of the robotics programs at our school by establishing three FTC teams and four FLL teams. We actively mentor all of our robotics teams in hopes of keeping the students involved in robotics as they grow through the programs. Over the years, we have created a name of ourselves for our creative outreach and advocacy for a combination between art and technology. We have also won several awards during competition. Last year, we won a Connect award, Collins Aerospace Innovate award, and qualified for the World Championships where we were named a Collins Aerospace Innovate Award Finalist.

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