FTC 7085 Fight Like A Girl

FLAG had the privilege of welcoming Delphine Klaput as an honorary member of our drive team at the Rosie the Riviter event at the Lansing Airport on Friday March 13th.

On Friday, March 13th, team Fight Like a Girl traveled to Lansing, Michigan, to participate in Rosie the Riveter Day at the Lansing Airport. Our team had a memorable experience meeting WWII Rosies, Tuskegee Airmen, Veterans, community members, and various vendors. During the event, FLAG demonstrated our robot, shared information about FIRST Robotics, and discussed the importance of girls in STEAM.

FLAG participated in the Girl Power event at Imagination Station this past Saturday. Our team showcased our robot, shared our knowledge of coding, building, and CAD, and encouraged others to get involved in STEAM activities.

Thank you State Champs RoboZone for interviewing us again!

It's not an FTC Michigan State Championship SE until we chat with Fight Like A Girl 7085! RoboZone is presented by Lawrence Tech "Be Curious. Make Magic." #autonomous #robotics #stemeducation @ftc_flag_robotics

Wow, just call us the Comeback Kid!! After a rough day yesterday at the SE MI State Championships, we won all our qualification matches today, finished 6th in our division, made it 4 matches into the playoffs before being eliminated, won the 3rd place Control Award, and earned ourselves an invitation to the Premiere regionals!!

All 3 Bedford teams at the event - Loose Screws 5237, and Classical Engineers FTC #8579, and us - qualified for Premiere and we’re just over the moon proud of all our kids for their many accomplishments this weekend and all season!!

WHO CAN DO IT?! BEDFORD CAN DO IT!! 🦾

Another successful qualifier on the books for Team FLAG! At Flint today, we took 2nd place finalist (again!) and the Think Award. And a big congratulations to our ‘sibling’ team Classical Engineers FTC #8579 on taking 1st place and qualifying for states! Next stop… states! 🦾

Bedford hosted the annual FIRST Tech Challenge qualifier this Saturday. All (5) teams from Bedford Junior High School (Loose Screws, Bionic Broncos, FLAG Fight Like A Girl, Turning Gears and Classical Engineers) competed in the 36-team event. The event was successful and the robotics program would like to thank all of the event volunteers. Nearly 100-volunteers are needed to run this event. We also need to thank the families that prepared meals for the volunteers and the business that donated food and drinks.

Loose Screws ranked #1 after qualification matches were complete. The selected team KRASH out of Howel to be their partner in the elimination match and were the overall winner of the event. The team was runner-up for the THINK Award and the INSPIRE Award. They were the winners of the THINK Award. The team earned advancement to the Michigan State Championship South/East, later in December.

FLAG finished qualification matches ranked #14 and was selected by the Coding Cobras out of Bloomfield Hills to compete in the elimination rounds, ultimately finishing as the runner-up after losing to the Loose Screws in the finals. The team earned advancement to the Michigan State Championship South/East, later in December.

Classical Engineers finished qualification matches ranked #10.

Turning Gears finished qualification matches ranked #23.

Bionic Bronco's finished qualification matches ranked #28 were runner-up for the CONNECT Award.

We competed in our first qualifier at Bedford yesterday, and it was a truly wild ride with an incredible ending! Long story short, we started the day ranked 30/36 after losing our first two matches and spent the rest of the day fighting like a girl all the way back up... to the championship match!! We ended the day as the 2nd place finalist alliance and qualified for states for the 3rd year in a row!

Thank you to our alliance partners 14790 Coding Cobras for selecting us to join you in the playoffs--we made a great team!