XBOTS are proud to present Haymarket FIRST LEGO League Jr. Expo this Saturday, hosted by ILITE Robotics. Come join the X-citement, and watch the 6-10 year olds show off their BOOMTOWN BUILD creations! Event Details: Haymarket Expo – Battlefield High School (FRC Qualifier) Haymarket, VA February 29th, 2020 10am to 1pm What is FIRST LEGO League…
Great to be at Virginia State Championships again!
It’s incredible that we are at our 8th straight Virginia State Championships! Since we started our journey in the Ring It Up season ( 2012-13), we have had a lot of fun with FTC. FIRST and FTC taught us a lot of valuable lessons. It’s been an amazing program. FIRST taught us not only some…
Volunteering at Falls Church FLL Tournament
Team XBOTS took some time off from building the SkyStone robot to what we love the most about volunteering – talking to a bunch of FLL teams curious to learn about what comes next – FTC. We had two robots for kids to learn about and drive. Here are some photos from the event.
Graduating from FLL? Learn about FTC
High-Fives to all FLL teams competing for City Shaper’s Challenge! With over 500 teams competing for Virginia/DC State Championship, and with over 35,000 teams world-wide, FLL is an incredibly rewarding experience both for students, mentors and parents. Wish you all the best in your FLL season! What, after FLL? If you are wondering what comes…
Xbots tribute to #WoodieFlowers
If there is one phrase that captures FIRST experience more than anything else, it is #GraciousProfessionalism. It is the soul of FTC. It is a life skill that teaches us how to be kind and respectful while doing our best work and competing fiercely. Dr.Woodie Flowers, by coining the phrase Gracious Professionalism and working tirelessly as…
Yummy XBOTS Cookies! We are hosting Bake Sale at a Giant near you
We are excited to announce our bake sale this year – it will be on Saturday October 12th at Giant Foods in Franklin Farm from 3-is 7pm and Giant Food in Greenbriar West from 4-7pm! That’s right, two locations, whichever is nearer to you. Please come join us and support us! Our team is hard at work…
FLL Rookie Team Workshop
Our workshop for FLL Rookie Team Coaches was held at the Chantilly Library today, and we were very happy with the great response from our community! We had over 12 teams sign up in less than a week until the room got full. The rookie coaches had excellent questions and we shared our experience in…
FTC Outreach at #NoVASTEMDay 2019 by Team 6700
Kudos to @NOVASySTEMic and the organizers for a really excellent @NOVASTEMDay. This is our 4th year presenting our Robot. Once again we had a lot of fun with many kids lining up to drive our robots and learn about @FIRSTweets and @FTCTeams #FIRSTChesapeake. We also had our FTC friends @teamGearedUp and their robots to share our…
FTC Engineering Notebook presentation
Here is the FTC Engineering Notebook presentation we shared with many NoVA FTC Teams at the @ECPIUniversity Manassas VA location today. Thanks for attending. We enjoyed sharing. Share back your feedback, questions and compliments! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1es6qSrLImQAlOLZCpP3DDKb7CHrBWuZc
XBOTS FTC Programming presentation
Here is the FTC programming with Android we presented today at the @ECPIUniversity Manassas VA. Let us know if you have any questions, comments or compliments! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Rm_7JDqXS9z4q0hywnuv02awz54ff1XbztsolXuuqZ0/edit#slide=id.p
Ready for #Skystone kickoff @ECPIUniversity @FTCTeams?
Tomorrow @10:30AM and 2PM – for a third year in a row, we are honored to host @FTCTeams workshops on Programming and Engineering Notebook. Look forward meeting the NoVA teams!
Skystone is here!
Skystone challenge is here. Lo and behold, a week into it, we already have our field, and it’s setup. It is one of the fastest field builds we ever did in our 8 years of FTC, thanks to the fewest assemblies in this kit! The field looks elegant, and stacking game looks to be fun!…
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