Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs

What a way to close out the season! Team 254 won the Curie Division at the 2026 FIRST Championship and made a deep run on the Einstein Field. Thank you to our alliance partners — , , and — it was an honor competing alongside you. A huge shoutout to our Cheesy Care crew for all their support this season to make sure that competitions stay as competitive as they can be. We are so grateful for all the support we received from our sponsors, parents, and mentors. 2026 FIRST Rebuilt is a wrap - next up is 2027 FIRST Canopy and BIOCORE.

The poofs are honored to be sponsored by the Gene Haas Foundation through world class machinery and support of the 2026 season, Rebuilt. Good luck to the at Miami this weekend!!!! 💙

Day 2✅
The Poofs are ready to dig deeper for day 3 of qualification matches.

Glad to have Tyler Olds from the FUN Robotics Network stop by to ask some questions. 💙

Dumpers? Certified! The Poofs are stoked to be able to join all these fellow dumpers in . Thank you to all the teams that made this possible!💙

Truck unloaded.
Pit setup.
Practice matches run.
Pits scouted.
Dumper certified.
Qualification matches - it’s go time.

254 tremendously appreciates the Johnson & Johnson organization for its direct impact on the Poofs mentorship and the 2026 season, REBUILT.

Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs, and Team 1678, The Citrus Circuits, are excited to announce that we will be hosting a group photo and handing out stickers for all the Certified Dumpers at the World Championship! Whether you were always a dumper, or REBUILT into one, we’d love you to join us!

Check out the Chief Delphi post for more information about the classifications of a dumper and come through for a group photo along with dumper club stickers

🗓️ Wednesday @ 6:50 PM
📍 Archimedes, Curie, Daly, and Galileo should join 254 at the TSC in Hall A.
📍 Hopper, Johnson, Milstein, and Newton should join 1678 at the TSC in Hall E.

Bring your robot (with bumpers!) + a couple teammates to move it.

Check out the full details, locations, and criteria here:
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/certified-dumper-group-photo-stickers-by-254-1678/519549?u=torrance

Honored to have our 2026 robot, Overload, featured on the sign-in page! PTC Onshape is one of our new sponsors for 2026 and has enabled us to design our robot in the cloud from any device our students have! The collaboration tools have changed the way we approach robot design.

Thank you, PTC Onshape!