The LigerBots played strongly at the New England District Championship in West Springfield from April 3-6.

On Thursday and Friday, 96 qualification rounds were held. With one of the hardest schedules out of all teams, the LigerBots was 7th Alliance’s first pick during alliance selection for playoffs on Saturday. Along with our alliance captain 1699 Robocats and alliance partner 88 TJ2, they scored the highest number of points in the whole competition, during playoffs, reaching an astounding 147 points in one round!

At our last competition, the Greater Boston Event in Revere, we won the FIRST Impact Award, the most prestigious award in FIRST. Winning this award got us invited to present our Impact Award presentation at the District Championship. During the presentation, judges paused their timer and the presentation team had to pause as an earthquake shook the room. 

“Their presentation was Earth-shaking!” joked head coach John Fitzpatrick.

Throughout this three day championship, the team competed for Engineering Inspiration Award, which gave us the opportunity to display a booth at expo along with other teams competing for Engineering Inspiration. Our booths displayed various hands-on STEAM activities, as well as our 2022 competition robot shooting large tennis balls for bypassers to catch!

“Despite the difficulty of our match schedule, we did really well overall, and I’m excited to watch the team improve by DCMP next year” commented COO Charlotte S.

We can build robots, program them, and entertain kids! Cabot Invention Invasion is Cabot’s annual science fair where the students K-5 display projects demonstrating their curiosity. On March 26, LigerBots members volunteered to entertain children at the Cabot Elementary School science fair!

During this event, students spent 2 hours engaging children with our past competition robot capable of shooting out balls! We hosted various STEAM expo activities consisting of binary beads, origami, and skeleton hands!

We invited participants, who may have missed their opportunity to display at this event, to enter the science fair that LigerBots will be hosting, on May 19th. We also introduce families to FLL(FIRST Lego League) which offers several programs for that age group. Most of all, we hope we’ve sparked their interest in robotics, so they’ll join us in the future!

The LigerBots are back at it again! Our team had an outstanding performance at the Greater Boston Qualifier hosted at Revere High school, March 23-24.

LigerBots has won the FIRST impact award, the most prestigious award in FIRST! Because we won this award, we were invited to compete in the upcoming New England District Championship.

“Part of the reason why we won was because of the unique story we had, especially because of our circumstances this build season.” said FIRST impact team member Felicia J, “Another reason why we won is because of the efforts that all the members of our first impact team went through, going to meetings 6 days a week”.

We wouldn’t have won this award without our FIRST impact award team, who presented to judges about what the LigerBots does, how we impact the community and spread FIRST values.

We performed well in the competition, and are currently in 20th place out of 185 teams in New England.

“This competition taught us a lot, we saw massive improvements on our consistency. We have identified some weak spots that we can work on. This competition has left a certain spot in my heart!” said drive team member Emily P.

Next week starts the New England District Championship, April 4-6, which we are able to attend due to us qualifying for the Engineering Inspiration and FIRST impact award!

Boston, prepare yourself for the LigerBots! We have just spent the past two weeks repairing and rebuilding Calliope, our robot, to face the strong opponents waiting for us at Revere this weekend from March 23-24.

Once again, we will be showcasing the impact our team has brought to our community beyond our robot as well as joining in the excitement on the field!

Like us on facebook or follow us on instagram! We will be posting the link to the live feed for at home viewing. Click this link to see all the teams competing against us!

“Since the last competition we have looked at what damage was done and made improvements to the robot’s durability, strength and reliability” said team member Elliot S.

Here’s to another outstanding performance and rocking out this competition!

We are going to the Championships!  FIRST robotics conducts their annual international championship in Houston, Texas.  Last year, more than 18,000 students, representing 974 robotics teams from 59 countries came together to compete, innovate and connect. This year, we’re going!  However, that means more fees and expenses. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please donate! And cheer us on when we go to Worlds Apr 3-Apr 6. You would be our Champion!