Two KSS Robotics Teams Are Going to Worlds

KSS Robotics is proud to have two teams advancing to the FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas, April 29–May 2, 2026. Our FLL team, Charged Up #37348, and FTC team, 24 Karat #20744, will represent Ohio at one of the world’s largest youth robotics events.

MEET THE TEAMS

FLL Team 37348 ChargedUp!

FTC Team 20744 24Karat

OUR MISSION

KSS Robotics is a 501(c)(3) community-driven, nonprofit organization whose mission is to enable, encourage and support student participation in STEM education programs. Serving Portage and Summit Counties, our core focus is our growing community of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competitive leagues including FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST Lego League (FLL).

KSS Robotics:

Strives to ensure every student who has a desire to participate in FIRST has a team.
Runs FIRST FLL and FTC competitions across Northeast Ohio.
Develops and supports teams competing at the highest level.

KSS Robotics was founded in 2014 to support FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams based in the Kent Ohio area. Due to the years of competition experience and expansion of teams, the organization has grown over the years and now supports multiple FLL, FTC and jrFLL teams in the greater Akron Area.

WE ARE GROWING

KSS Robotics has supported award winning STEM education teams for grades K to 12 since its founding in 2014. In 2018 KSS Robotics increased the number of teams supported and tripled the number of youth participants. In 2019, NEOHBots Summer Camp joined to offer introductory and advanced level, week-long workshops in programming, design, and robot building. KSS Robotics runs five programs for 2023

FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) - Team #9194 24K
FIRST® Technical Challenge (FTC) - Teams #8581 Ædificatores, #20744 24 Karat, #14261 Wreckless, and (new this year) team #23764 Trial by Fire, and 24481 Zeepkist
FIRST® LEGO League Challenge (FLL Challenge) - Teams #37348 Charged Up and #14151 Super Charged
FIRST® LEGO League Explore (FLL Explore) - Welcome to our two 24-25 season teams!
7th annual Turtle Friendly off-season FTC event – 12 local teams learning, completing and having fun together
NEOHBots Summer Camps:
- Lego and STEM Camps -Students will learn how to build and program Lego Robots, solving design challenges as they build. Students will learn to work with others to create and present their ideas.
- Robotics and Engineering Camp - Students will learn how to build and program FTC robots in small teams, solving design challenges as they build. Students will learn to work with others to create and complete with their robots. Student teams will compete against each other at the end of the two weeks of camp and then complete against other local teams at the KSS Robotics Turtle Friendly.

FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION
(Grades 9-12)

FIRST TECHNICAL CHALLENGE
(Grades 7-12)

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE CHALLENGE
(Grades 4-8)

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE EXPLORE
(Grades K-4)

Monthly KSS Robotics Newsletters

Contact KSS Robotics

Nathan Sterrett tackle (at) kssrobotics.org

Liz Crawley liz@kssrobotics.org

Two KSS Robotics Teams Are Going to Worlds

KSS Robotics is proud to have two teams advancing to the FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas, April 29–May 2, 2026. Our FLL team, Charged Up #37348, and FTC team, 24 Karat #20744, will represent Ohio at one of the world’s largest youth robotics events. MEET THE TEAMS

WE ARE GROWING

Monthly KSS Robotics Newsletters

Contact KSS Robotics

KSS Robotics is proud to have two teams advancing to the FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas, April 29–May 2, 2026. Our FLL team, Charged Up #37348, and FTC team, 24 Karat #20744, will represent Ohio at one of the world’s largest youth robotics events.

MEET THE TEAMS