NEWS

Team 56 RoBBE Xtreme

Bound Brook High School/ETHICON

The mission of Team 56 is to incorporate the talents, experience and enthusiasm of the students of Bound Brook High School and the professionals of ETHICON to focus on solving the challenges presented by FIRST competitions. We recognize that every member of the team is important and contributes to the team’s success. We respect the talents of our competitors and we see every team as an ally in achieving the objectives of Team 56 and FIRST. Team 56 views integrity, professionalism, collaboration, and cooperation as the standards that guide our team. As we enter our ninth year in the FIRST Robotics Competition, our team values and respects the need to ‘give back’. Following are examples of some of the activities our team has participated in during the 2004/2005 season:

 Senior Citizen Fall Clean-Up Day

This event involved high school team members raking several elderly  or disabled citizens’ homes in Bound Brook.

 

Best Moment:

When an elderly lady came out of her house with a four-pronged miniature rake. She said we were working so hard she wanted to help despite her injured wrist. Two students found a way to get her back into the house safely so that we could finish without worrying. Her smile and thank-you letter warmed us up on that cold day!

 

Tsunami Dress-Down Day

 Our team initiated a teacher dress-down day to raise money towards the tsunami recovery relief fund.

 

 Robotics Day at Somerset Patriots and Canned Food Drive

 Team 56 coordinated the First Annual Robotics Patriots Day this past June. Five local teams joined us to spread the message of FIRST (Gracious Professionalism) and to encourage young children into the fields of science and technology. With safety as a top priority, interested young minds received the opportunity to drive a robot and learn about robot design.

 

 Team Mentoring

 We have assisted other FIRST teams with their robot (e.g. Immaculata) and are currently helping Princeton Day School organize their own Robotics team. We are trying to help the FIRST organization reach their 50 new teams goal by '05 in New Jersey.

 

First Annual Robotics Demo Day at Bound Brook High School

BBHS Robotics students prepared and presented a robot demonstration that involved promoting science and technology to the elementary school students from the Bound Brook School District.

 

Discovery Channel Feature

Because of our team’s success and good sportsmanship, Team 56 was chosen to be featured on the Discovery Science Channel in a one-hour episode. From over 1000 teams, our team was chosen! Our team represented Bound Brook High School and ETHICON nationwide and has since received a lot of positive feedback!

 

R is for Robot

Team members demonstrated our RoBBE to pre-kindergarten special needs children to assist them when learning their letter “R”.

Best Moment: Seeing every kid smile and clap for our RoBBE!

 

Huntington’s Disease Society Donation

Team members raised funds to donate to the Huntington’s Disease Society in efforts to help to find a cure/treatment for this neurological degenerative disease.

 

Work in Progress

Team 56 is in contact with Liberty Science Center and working out the details of having a

FIRST Robotics exhibit involving the participation of all local NJ FIRST robotics teams.

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Last modified: 04/05/05