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About Us
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
Announcements
Highlights of things to discover
(visit each Tab):
About the Team: Our contact info, location, team calendar, and links to our social media are found here.
Team History: Check out the history of FRC Team 686 since the founding in 2001.
BIBO: Information about the non-profit organization that provides direct support to FRC Team 686.
Events: We participate in many robotics competitions. Our schedule list gets updated throughout the year.
Community: We engage with our community in Frederick County and at times beyond.
Sponsors: See the support that helps make FRC Team 686 a success and how you can provide that support too.
Welcome to 2026.
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.
Team 686 Robotics completed their 26th season "Rebuilt" with FIRST Robotics Competition. A lot of history and accomplishments. A future page to our website will be created to capture the 26 years of Team 686 Robotics inspiring STEM in Frederick County, Maryland. We are preparing for the 27th season FIRST Canopy "BIOCORE" and mooooving on. Cheer us on for many more years.
Team 686 Bovine Intervention had a very successful FIRST Robotics Competition 2026 Season. We gained new students since then for the upcoming season and will conduct various training between now and December 2026. The goal is to be ready to build a new competition robot for the 2027 Season. Currently, the Team 686 student roster is full and will be reassessed later this year. If you are interested in joining Team 686 would like to visit the team workspace, please email the team and we will provide the latest status on our new student recruitment process. If you would like to visit the team workspace or have any other questions, please email (see Contact Us).
For our team's operations, We are year-around
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.
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