Mech Tech Dragons: FRC 422

Team 422 is going to worlds and we need your help! Scan the QR code on the flyer or click the link below: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/GSGISFFoundationGovernorsS/annualfundgift.html
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As we soar through qualification matches at FIRST Chesapeake District Champs, we can’t forget to thank Afton Chemical, Purnima Amin, Showbest, the Gene Haas Foundation, Cobotiq, Standard Roofing, Dupont, New Market, Beacon Forensics, Evergreen, Intuitive Foundation, FIRST Robotics, New Asian Panda and more for making this possible! 🔥🐉💚
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Team 422 is all crowned-up for for day 1 of DCMP! 💚🔥🐉 👑
FIRST Chesapeake

Today was the first annual celebration of Virginia's First Robotics Day! Thank you to everybody who attending, including Blue Cheese Robotics Team 1086, TALON 540 Robotics, FRC Team 3359 Royal Robotics, Lord of The Bricks, Circuitree, Mary Munford, and Senator Hashmi and Del. David Owens.

We were so excited to have Team 422 alum Ryan Kaplan present a STEMinar to the team sharing his experience and how FIRST and FRC stayed with him throughout his career.

Yesterday was busy for Team 422! We had a great time at the Annual STEM Advocacy Workshop hosted by Robototes! We also set up at our freshman registration to promote FIRST to incoming students!

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Last Thursday, our team supported STEM in New Kent by judging in George W. Watkins Elementary School's annual science fair and STEAM night!

Hey everyone! Please join us at the first ever FIRST Robotics Day in Virginia Celebration on March 30th, 2025. We would love to see you there in support of FIRST Chesapeake and its impact! We have guests and dignitaries from all over the state attending. Please fill out this form to RSVP: https://forms.gle/EMTAcJYKyAv98Xsz5

As we go through our qualification matches today at our first competition at V***R, we can't forget to thank our amazing sponsors who enable us to be here! Thank you!! 💚🐉
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Team 422 just had the distinct honor of visiting the Virginia General Assembly today! Every one of our team members did an incredible job bringing attention to, and lobbying for, stem education. Each member shared their own experiences in doing first robotics.

Thank you to all of the amazing delegates who listened to our presentations! 🐉💚

Last week we ran our FLL Offseason Scrimmage for students across Central VA! Students had the chance to learn how to build a competitive FLL bot while also recieving judging practice!

Thank you to all the coaches, parents, and teachers for bringing their students we hope that our recources were helpful!💚🐉

We are so excited to host this year’s FLL Offseason Scrimmage! No experience is required and we will be training novice students on how to program and build their robots before the judging round. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions!

We are so happy to have met with FRC teams Ayer Shirley FIRST Robotics Team #4905 and FRC 8567 from Massachusetts to talk about our advocacy journey and to share tips on how to be a successful FIRST advocate! We love spreading our experience to help other teams be successful across the nation! 🐉 🐉

We are so happy to have met with FRC teams 4905 and 8567 from Massachusetts to talk about our advocacy journey and to share tips on how to be a successful FIRST advocate! We love spreading our experience to help other teams be successful across the nation! 🐉 🐉

Our team had a blast at kickoff this year! A special thank you to all the alumni that came back to help provide our team support as the season starts!!

On December 13th we held our Legislative Open House, inviting state legislators, Richmond City council members, and district school board members to visit our team and learn about FIRST Robotics and how we work to spread the FIRST mission in our community.

We are so grateful to all the legislators who spent their evening with us learning about the importance of STEM education and how they can support STEM in Virginia! 💚🐉

We were honored to have you Delegate Owen! Thank you for your continued support of the FIRST program! 💚

Join us tomorrow at RABID - Richmond Area Bot Instigated Destruction for the Turkey Brawl. https://www.rabidrva.com/events.html