We are the Association of Roman Catholic Homeschoolers/All Saints Academy FIRST Tech Challenge team! We are the Bio-Bots!
FTC team #5950 is based out of Wake County, North Carolina. In 2012-2013, our first year, we finished sixth of eleven in a scrimmage, and 25th of 30 at the NC State FTC Championship Tournament.
In 2013-14 (Block Party!) we finished fifth of ten at the Cary scrimmage, third of ten at the Elon Scrimmage, Sixth of Thirteen at the Raleigh Regional Qualifier, and eighth of twenty at the North Carolina State Championships. We won the Think Award (Engineering Notebook) at the Regional Qualifier, and we won the Control Award (Programming and Driving) at the State Championship.
Our Experience
All of our team members have experience in another FIRST program, FIRST Lego League.
Chris was a member of the Champions Award winning team at the 2010-2011 North Carolina State Championships, having participated since 2008.
Ben started in FIRST in 2008 on a FLL team in PA/MD.
Thomas began in 2008 on a JrFLL team.
Ben and Thomas have participated in FLL together from 2009 through 2011, and Thomas participated in 2012-2013 when Ben aged out. Their 2011 team took home a Research award in the NC Regional Qualifiers, and advanced to the North Carolina State Championships. In 2012, Thomas and his team made it to the NC State Tournament, winning a Teamwork award at the Local Qualifier. In previous years, their teams have won multiple awards in Robot Design and Teamwork at State level tournaments.
Our coach is Mrs. Dunphy, is heading into her 7th year of coaching. Her FLL teams have won multiple awards in Robot Design, Teamwork, and Research.
Mrs. Dunphy has coached:
2008 FLL - Climate Connections
2009 FLL - Smart Moves
2010 FLL - Body Forward
2011 FLL - Food Factor
2012 FTC - Ring it up!
2012 FLL - Senior Solutions
2013 FTC - Block Party!
2013 FLL - Nature's Fury