Bovine Intervention is a Robotics Team located in Frederick, Maryland. Our robot design, build, and test lab is at the Mount St. Mary's University Frederick Campus.
Our Robotics Team participates in the annual FIRST Robotics Competitions.
As a community robotics program, we consist of student members from many high schools in the Frederick County and beyond. Most of the students come from Walkersville, Linganore, Oakdale, Catoctin and Brunswick High Schools while some from private and at home.
High School Students
( Public, Private, at Home )
Students learn:
Engineering Design Principles
Computer-aided Design (CAD)
Robot Fabrication
Java Programming
Leadership and Teamwork
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Announcements
Welcome to 2025. Team 686 Robotics completed their 25th season with FIRST Robotics Competition. A lot of history and accomplishments. A new page to our website will be created to capture the 25 years of Team 686 Robotics inspiring STEM in Frederick County, Maryland. Back in June, Team 686 will be hosted a special celebration event to mark the 25 years. Now we are mooooving on to another 25 years.
Team 686 Bovine Intervention had a very successful FIRST Robotics Competition 2025 Season. Now are in the off season and preparing for the 2026 Season. See the Events tab for details about each of scheduled off-season competitions later this year.
If you have any questions about the robotics program or like to visit the team workspace please to contact us.
Our Team meetings are in the evenings and the robot build and test lab workspace is at Mount St. Mary's University (MSMU) Frederick Campus, Frederick, Maryland. A great central location for high school students (public, private, and at home) from across Frederick County and beyond.
Our year is in two parts:
Part one is from (January - April) FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Season from the FRC season kickoff event in January with the start of a design, build, test of a new robot to our FIRST Chesapeake District robot competitions in March and with success to the District Championship and FIRST Championship "Worlds" in April.
Part two is from (May - December) serving as our Training Season. The Training Season is the perfect time to join the team and gain the experience and preparations for participating in the FRC Season. Along with the training, from May to the end of December there are many activities in the community to off-season robotics competition events that we participate in.