What We Do

Team RUSH teaches students not only the design process and how to build a robot, but many valuable life lessons as well. During the off-season students do personality, leadership, machine, electrical, and sensor training. Our team believes in giving back to the community; each member is required to do a number of different team sponsored activities as well as ten hours of community service every year. We also do presentations for schools and the companies that sponsor us. We mentor FLL teams in the area, put on summer Lego robotics camps, and participate in town parades. We also do a number of fundraisers which not only help to support our team, but get our name, what we stand for, and science and technology out into the community. During the build season, we continue our training and learn presentation skills, scale drawing, even how to tie a tie. Along with the training, we have just six weeks to design and build a robot from the ground up to achieve the game challenge given by FIRST. Our team is separated into sub-teams including chassis, mechanism, student-led design group, programming electrical and pneumatics, inventor, and business. Each part of our robot is divided between the three build groups and are easily connected to one another.