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The Circuit Breakers are a 5th year FTC team that consists of 7 middle schoolers attending Baker Middle School in Troy, Michigan. The team promotes diversity with members of different races/ethnicities and consists of both boys and girls. We also promote STEM and FTC in our school and community by spreading the knowledge of FIRST with students and parents of the Troy School District and the rest of Michigan. This is our 5th season as The Circuit Breakers, we originally started with our mentor, Bhaskar Marthi in 2016. In the first season, our team didn’t qualify for the States Tournament mostly due to our late start. For the next 3 seasons, we started a couple of months before the build season began so that the members of our team could gain some preliminary knowledge about programming/building before the build season. This may have been the primary reason for our successful 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 season, as we made it to the Michigan State Finals twice and even world championships.
The Michigan State Championship is our next competition. After that, we are off-season.
See the Community page on how to start a FIRST team.
You can easily get involved with an FLL, FTC, or FRC team.
You can locate a team that suits you at a local school, and one school may have multiple teams. Remember, selecting a team isn't always selecting the one that is the best, you will want to contribute to teams that need a lot of contribution. You should also familiarize yourself with Gracious Professionalism and other aspects of robotics. If there are no local teams that you can mentor or contribute to as a student, you should look into starting a team. Robotics teams can be expensive, but it can help kids with STEM and learning new principles that will help them later in life. Check the link above for some pointers on starting a team.
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