Farmington Robotics

Welcome to the website for the Farmington Robotics team. Our team, the 2nd Law Enforcers, have been an active participant in FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) since our rookie year 1997. Our team is a strong partnership of Farmington High School students, professionals from our main sponsors (UTC Otis Elevator, ebm-papst, Inc. and UTC Sikorsky), teachers, parents, adult mentors, and alumni mentors. We are proud to say that our team is student drive and mentor nutured. Our first robot, Gizmo, helped us to win rookie of the year at the New England Regional in New Hampshire in 1997. We always attend the UTC sponsored Connecticut Regional and then either the National Championship in Atlanta, GA or another regional competition. In 2007, we won the second highest award that FIRST bestows, the prestigious Engineering Inspiration Award at the FIRST championship.

Our team is very proud of our innovative Dream FIRST initiative, which brings the excitement of science and technology to children ages 3 - 10 as well as introducing them to FIRST at a very young age. Our team runs at least one Dream FIRST event nearly every month. Dream FIRST events are a "tech wonderland", a true "microcosm" of FIRST. To learn more about Dream FIRST, visit http://www.dreamfirst.org

Our team would like to especially thank Otis Elevator and ebm-past, Inc. for their generous financial support. Otis funds our robot building season and pays our competition fees each year. Ebm-papst, Inc. donates the use of a 3000+ sq. foot warehouse in Unionville, CT, and has donated several industrial class tools for our workshop. Mentors from Otis, ebm-papst, Inc., Sikorsky, along with parents, teachers, other adult and college mentors dedicate countless hours to the students on our team helping to make FIRST the best experience possible for them. In turn, our students dedicate themselves through significant community outreach as we work towards making FIRST's vision a reality: "... a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes." (FIRST Founder, Dean Kamen).