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First Tech Challenge at Lakeville South
First Tech Challenge at Lakeville South
Lakeville South High School offers students in grades 7-12, FTC Robotics as an after school activity (and a high school class too!). Students work in teams to compete against other schools/teams at events to try to qualify for State and Worlds!
Check out the tabs at the top to learn more about our teams and joining!
2025-2026 - Decode
We will be hosting an information night about FTC robotics at LSHS on August 27th at 5pm in C104. This is the same night as our Open House at South. We will run through what the season is like, how the robot "game" works and logistics like cost and fundraising.
2025 Kickoff is September 6th at Jefferson High School in Bloomington. More info can be found here.
Our Practices this year will be Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays 2:45-5pm in C104/the STEM Lab. Our first practice will be the second week of school on Sept 8th.
2024-2025 Season - Into the Deep
This years game involved moving "specimens" and "samples" from the center submersible to baskets. Check out the video to the right to learn more!
We had many new students again this year and had a total of 5 teams!
CyberLynx *new*
Bits and Pieces *new*
Chaos Potatoes
Gadget Girls
Digital Disruptors
All teams had a competitive season and a few almost advanced to state. Even though no teams advanced, they all learned a lot about building and coding their robots and team work!
We did great fundraisign this last year with our Heggies pizza fundraiser and we look forward to doing it again!
Into the Deep- Game video
2023-2024 Season - Centerstage
2023-2024 Season - Centerstage
Season Highlights
This years game involved picking up pixels and placing them on the backdrop and during the end game teams can launch a "drone" and hang from the supports!
We had more new students join this year and after reworking some of the previous teams we ended up with 5 total teams! The Hackercats and Digital Disruptors were our two returning teams, and we created 3 new teams; Chaos Potatoes (High Schoolers), ASAP (Middle Schoolers) and Gadget Girls (All Girls team).
Three teams (Hackercats, Chaos Potatoes and Digital Disruptors competed at their first competition at Maple Grove HS early December. The Hackercats and Digital Disruptors both moved on to the final matches of the competition. The Hackercats were a member of the winning alliance and also won the Design Award.
Four Teams (Chaos Potatoes, Digital Disruptors, Gadget Girls and ASAP all competed at Burnsville HS in January. At the end of qualifiers Digital Disruptors were 2nd, Gadget Girls were 7th, and Chaos Potatoes were 12th. Digital Disruptors eventually lost during the final matches but did win the Control Award.
Hackercats attended their 2nd qualifier at Marshal on Jan 27th and set many records! They ended qualification matches ranked 2nd behind Electrobotics of Eagan. They became and Alliance for the final matches and during these final matches they broke the state record twice and the second time broke a USA record (Score of 326). After this competition their score was the 4th highest in the World. They also won the Design award at this competition.
2024 State Competition:
February 16th-17th at Roy Wilkins Auditorium
More Information can be found HERE
Centerstage Game Video
Eagan High School First Tech Challenge robot team Electrobotics 17127 won its final regional tournament as first place seed after several rounds of head to head competition. They worked all day on improving their robot and scored 326 points with its alliance partner Lakeville HackerCats 13603. Competition is broken down into three areas – autonomous 30 seconds when the robot uses camera and sensors to execute complicated tasks for points; driver control 60 seconds where two people operate robot and score points; and End Game for 30 seconds where the hardest tasks can be tried for some of the highest points assigned. This is the second highest score in league approved competition in the world currently. State championships are Feb. 16 and 17 with the winners advancing to the world tournament in April of this year. In First Tech Challenge, students learn how to design, create, build, operate and program real robots in order to compete as an alliance for fun and challenge.
2022 Season
2022 Season
Season Highlights
Season Highlights
This years game was called Power Play and involved putting cones onto terminals that are different heights.
We had MANY new students join our teams this year, so much so that we created another new team- Digital Disruptors, that are all middle schoolers. Our three existing teams had other new members join their teams as well.
The Hackercats competed at two tournaments, Prior Lake and Burnsville. They did not end qualifiers at Prior Lake with the best standing (9th), but the 3rd ranked alliance picked them and they ended up being Tournament Champions and qualified for State! At Prior Lake they also won the Connect Award and were finalists for the Motivate Award The Hackercats also competed at the Burnsville tournament, they were chosen by the #1 alliance, they did not win the robot game but did win awards.
The rest of our teams only competed at the Burnsville Tournament (either Saturday or Sunday). These three teams (Thunder Chickens, Wasted Potential and Digital Disruptors) did not do the greatest but they all learned a lot. Wasted Potential did win the Judges Award however for their ingenuity of using a tape measure for part of their lift and a claw clip for grabbing the cones.
2022 Game Video:
State Tournament 2023!
The Hackercats did very well and ranked 2nd after qualifiers. They choose team 22161 M-TECH Dark Matter and team 16917 Gear Wizards for their alliance. They ended up winning their division and went on to face the other division for the state championship. Sadly the robot was starting to have some wear and tear and needed repairs so it was not functioning at it highest ability and they lost in the final round.
2021 Season Highlights
2021 Season Highlights
This years game was called Freight Frenzy and involved transporting freight (cubes and balls) to shipping hubs.
We had 9 new students join this year so we created a new team - Wasted Potential! All three of our teams did really well throughout the season and learned a lot. Wasted Potential was only able to compete at one qualifying competition but they did so well that another team choose them to be on their "alliance" and their alliance won the competition!
At the Hackercats first competition in November they were the captain of an alliance and qualified for State! At their second competition they were the captain of the winning alliance. Between these two competitions they did a full redesign of their robot and added a turret to their robot. At state they were ranked #1 after the morning matches and got first pick for alliances for the semi-final matches. During the final match before the state championship match they made a small mistake and lost. Even though they did not move onto Worlds they did set a new state record and had an awesome day at state!
The Thunderchickens also did a complete redesign after their first competition to try to improve their robots ability at picking up the cubes and balls. Even though they were not picked to join an alliance they worked great as a team problem solving and improving their robot this season.
2021 Challenge:
2021 Challenge:
Want to know more about how this years challenge works? Check out this video :
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