Tune in to RSN at 7 PM each Tuesday during build season (yes, including bag day!) to hear from six teams around FIRST® on how their week went. From their great successes and innovative ideas, to their struggles and pitfalls that happen to every team along the way.
Hailing from the small central New Hampshire town of Alton, FRC 319, Big Bad Bob, has been in FIRST since 1995. The team is a rising star in New England, recently showing great improvement on the field in the last few years, qualifying for the Championship the last three years in a row. While the team has been around for over 20 years, their first blue banners came just last year when they won the North Shore and UNH districts. Off the field, Bob has a 50/50 male-to-female ratio among their students, and also hosts their own yearly off-season event, Battle of the Bay.
Apex was founded just last year and is based out of Seattle Christian Schools in Seatac, WA. Roaring onto the scene in the PNW last year, 5803 took home tons of hardware from winning a district event, earning the number-one seed at the PNW District Championship and a number-four seed on the Curie field. On top of that, the team won a district Rookie All-Star and Rookie Inspiration award, as well as their divisional Rookie All-Star Award. Off the field, the team works out of a biology classroom, and as a rookie, hosted Peak Performance, the second off-season event ever in the PNW.
We'll announce two more teams next Tuesday, and the last two on the following Tuesday. For today though, we will tell you that if you are a follower of FIRST, you will certainly recognize some of the check_in teams.
In the meantime, here's a hint:
One of the teams is very old, one of them is very new.
All of the teams have at least one blue banner.
All of the teams went to the FIRST Championship St. Louis last year.
There are some district teams, and some non-district teams.
At least one of the teams has won a World Championship.
One of these bullet points is lying.