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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
FRC 2026 season started on January 10th. The Team is set and ready to build.
We will be recruiting new students to the team starting in May 2026. See the Contact Us email for inquires and additional information about our program.
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.
> Visit the Community tab for information about our popular Summer STEM VEX IQ Camp held in June.
Sponsors: See the support that helps make FRC Team 686 a success and how you can provide that support too.
Welcome to 2026. 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 hosted a special celebration event to mark the 25 years. In 2026, we are beginning our 26th season with FIRST and mooooving on. Cheer us on for many more years.
Team 686 Bovine Intervention had a very successful FIRST Robotics Competition 2025 Season. We completed our new student training and ready to build a new competition robot for the 2026 Season. See the Events tab for details about each of scheduled and registered events.
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.
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