Walpole High School Robotics Team 1153

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Join The Revolution!

The Walpole High School Robotics Team is excited to have finished our best FIRST Robotics Competition season this year. FIRST [For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology] is an international robotics competition where high school students work together with teachers, mentors and engineers to complete a task. Each year the challenge is different. Teams from across the country and around the world compete head-to-head in this very competitive, energetic, arena-style robotic game. The atmosphere FIRST creates is inspiring for old and young alike while promoting imagination, creativity, and cooperation in everyone involved. It is truly a one-of-a-kind event.

(Check out FIRST at

We are a group of more than fifty students, faculty advisors and mentors looking for additional corporate and community support. Over the course of the next several months, our team will endeavor to form a new partnership with an engineering firm; market our cause throughout the community; and, raise approximately $50,000 for the next season in order to compete regionally, nationally, and internationally. We recognize that few corporations could accommodate this heavy burden independently and so we ask for any help you would be willing to offer. No contribution is too small. We need your time and expertise as engineering mentors, your generosity as financial leaders, and your ears as members of our community.

During his speech at the Manchester, NH 2007 Competition, Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST, noted, “It’s really not about the competition”, and he’s so very right. It is about young people learning how to brainstorm to solve problems and work together to achieve a common goal without egos or negativity getting in the way; it’s about giving back to their communities by teaching elementary school students how to build Lego League robots to push home the fact that science and math can be fun; it’s about learning how to give of themselves to better not only their community and peers, but also themselves; it’s about growing into better people with a zest for working along side others with a common goal of making things better and helping the ‘world’ be a better place, and if they learn some engineering and manufacturing along the way, so much the better. They strive for excellence with their robot and within themselves while always following FIRST’s mantra of “Gracious Professionalism”, with this very unique venue making it all possible.

This is the tenth year WHS has participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Last year (2010-2011) with the help of our sponsors, mentors, and parents, we attended two regional FIRST competitions and WPI’s Battle Cry. The Finger Lakes Regional was held at Rochester Institute of Technology where the RoboRebels made the quarterfinals and was also awarded the “Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award” for our creative and successful use of sensors and consistent autonomous mode operation. At the Boston Regional, the team was awarded FIRST’s “Excellence in Engineering Award”, the highest technical award available at the competitions and competed in the semi-final rounds. WPI Battle Cry is an ‘off-season’ event that allows the team to have fun as they compete. We put team members in positions they haven’t done before, such as driver or team coach so they can gain an appreciation as to how difficult and stressful these positions really are during competitions. This season we are expecting to continue this success and we need your help to do so. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. Checks can be made payable to: Walpole Public Schools. Please reference “Robotics” on the memo line. Note: The school is an IRS section 501(c)(3) organization. The Federal Tax ID Number will be supplied upon request.

As a member of FIRST, the Walpole High School Robotics Team will give our sponsors a regional & national audience. The competition is a nationally televised event. Every contribution is valued and will be made public to the students, teachers, parents, engineers, and to the Walpole community. Our website reaches an even larger audience with some sponsors adding our links to their sites as well.

Thank you for your time,

Walpole High School Robotics Team 1153

Dustin Scott, Faculty Advisor

E-mail- Cell (978) 618-9598WHS (508) 660-7257 Ext. 188

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Join The Revolution!

The Walpole High School Robotics Team is excited to have finished our best FIRST Robotics Competition season this year. FIRST [For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology] is an international robotics competition where high school students work together with teachers, mentors and engineers to complete a task. Each year the challenge is different. Teams from across the country and around the world compete head-to-head in this very competitive, energetic, arena-style robotic game. The atmosphere FIRST creates is inspiring for old and young alike while promoting imagination, creativity, and cooperation in everyone involved. It is truly a one-of-a-kind event.

(Check out FIRST at

We are a group of more than fifty students, faculty advisors and mentors looking for additional corporate and community support. Over the course of the next several months, our team will endeavor to form a new partnership with an engineering firm; market our cause throughout the community; and, raise approximately $50,000 for the next season in order to compete regionally, nationally, and internationally. We recognize that few corporations could accommodate this heavy burden independently and so we ask for any help you would be willing to offer. No contribution is too small. We need your time and expertise as engineering mentors, your generosity as financial leaders, and your ears as members of our community.

During his speech at the Manchester, NH 2007 Competition, Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST, noted, “It’s really not about the competition”, and he’s so very right. It is about young people learning how to brainstorm to solve problems and work together to achieve a common goal without egos or negativity getting in the way; it’s about giving back to their communities by teaching elementary school students how to build Lego League robots to push home the fact that science and math can be fun; it’s about learning how to give of themselves to better not only their community and peers, but also themselves; it’s about growing into better people with a zest for working along side others with a common goal of making things better and helping the ‘world’ be a better place, and if they learn some engineering and manufacturing along the way, so much the better. They strive for excellence with their robot and within themselves while always following FIRST’s mantra of “Gracious Professionalism”, with this very unique venue making it all possible.

This is the tenth year WHS has participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Last year (2010-2011) with the help of our sponsors, mentors, and parents, we attended two regional FIRST competitions and WPI’s Battle Cry. The Finger Lakes Regional was held at Rochester Institute of Technology where the RoboRebels made the quarterfinals and was also awarded the “Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award” for our creative and successful use of sensors and consistent autonomous mode operation. At the Boston Regional, the team was awarded FIRST’s “Excellence in Engineering Award”, the highest technical award available at the competitions and competed in the semi-final rounds. WPI Battle Cry is an ‘off-season’ event that allows the team to have fun as they compete. We put team members in positions they haven’t done before, such as driver or team coach so they can gain an appreciation as to how difficult and stressful these positions really are during competitions. This season we are expecting to continue this success and we need your help to do so. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. Checks can be made payable to: Walpole Public Schools. Please reference “Robotics” on the memo line. Note: The school is an IRS section 501(c)(3) organization. The Federal Tax ID Number will be supplied upon request.

As a member of FIRST, the Walpole High School Robotics Team will give our sponsors a regional & national audience. The competition is a nationally televised event. Every contribution is valued and will be made public to the students, teachers, parents, engineers, and to the Walpole community. Our website reaches an even larger audience with some sponsors adding our links to their sites as well.

Thank you for your time,

Walpole High School Robotics Team 1153

Dustin Scott, Faculty Advisor

E-mail- Cell (978) 618-9598WHS (508) 660-7257 Ext. 188