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4H ALARM Robotics won the 2nd place finalist award with its alliance partners while competing with 36 other FRC teams at the NE District BSU Event 2024.
ALARM Robotics is a local non-profit community team which has been mentoring students in robotics since 2007 and is set up in Franklin’s very own historic Red Brick School. ALARM stands for ‘A Lot of Awesome Robot Makers’. The team participates in FRC–-FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION run by FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). We accept students from 8th to 12th grade from Franklin and neighborhood towns.
The FIRST Robotics Competition
is a mix of sports and engineering. It is a crossfit workout for the muscle upstairs! Here students get to learn how to build robots, specifically machining, computer aided design and programming. Teams design a new robot every season, the theme of this season was “Crescendo”
The 4H ALARM team participates in competitions in the New England area. After the game kick-off in January, the students and mentors work for over 9 weeks, sometimes putting in over 20-30 hours every week to design, build and program a robot for doing specific tasks for the challenge.
