The XQ-Robotix Team Vision is to :
1) Ignite the untapped talent that lies within every student
2) Provide students with hands on experience in various fields of engineering
3) Facilitate an environment where students will build lifelong relationships with students and mentors.
On The Ben Franklin Educational Campus, the FIRST Robotics Program is helping groom the future innovators, CEO's, and leaders of our great country. We know that success is about more than winning. Success embraces sportsmanship, team spirit, and the appreciation of diversity. Our mentors are not only helping us to build a robot but also academically by allowing us [students] realize that education can be enjoyable.
We invite you to explore our Website to learn more about our Team and the FIRST Robotics Program
About This Year's Game: 
Summary:
LOGO MOTION™ is played by two competing alliances on a flat 27’ x 54’ foot field. Each alliance consists of three robots. They compete to hang as many inflated plastic shapes (triangles, circles, and squares) on their grids as they can during a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the teams hang their game pieces on their scoring grid, the more points their alliance receives.
The match begins with one 15-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs and must hang Ubertubes to score extra points. For the rest of the match, drivers control robots and try to maximize their alliance score by hanging as many logo pieces as possible. Any logo piece hung on the same peg as an Ubertube receives double points. If teams assemble the logo pieces on their scoring grids to form the FIRST® logo (triangle, circle, square, in a horizontal row in that order), the points for the entire row are doubled.
The match ends with robots deploying minibots, small electro-mechanical assemblies that are independent of the host robot, onto vertical poles. The minibots race to the top of the pole to trigger a sensor and earn additional bonus points.
About FIRST :
FIRST 's Vision is to make a positive impact on the lives of youth, their schools, and communities by transforming society to appreciate science and technology as much as sports and entertainment. The FIRST Robotics Competition partners professionals with young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The opportunities that FIRST provides for its participants are both life-changing and career-molding. “FIRST competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines”.
FIRST teams come from Brazil , Canada , Ecuador , Israel , Mexico , the U.K. , and almost every U.S. state. The combination of volunteers, mentors, professional engineers, teachers, and other adults working with students across the country is the unstoppable key to FIRST's unrelenting success.
The Vision of FIRST doesn't stop after students matriculate to graduate level studies. Thanks to colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals across the nation participants have access to a plethora of scholarships.
FIRST shows students that technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are not just for scientist but for the future Einstein's, just like them!
