About Us

We are team 8099 from Hanford High School in Richland Washington. We are a team of diverse students between the 9th and 12th grades who believe in the importance and impact of STEM. Our ultimate goal is to spread the joy of the FIRST program within our community, by getting people excited about STEM. 

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We compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). "FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and code robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. Robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming."-FIRST

 

Our FTC team was the first team in the area, and since then we helped Kamiakin and Richland HS start FTC teams from scratch. We've also helped coach FLL teams along with starting one in Grandview.

 

During the summer, we spend time with mechanical experimenting and learning more about coding. Our members mentor an FLL team  and we readily take other mentoring opportunities. We attend 3-6 School Science nights each year to get elementary and middle school excited about science and engineering. Our members are always willing to volunteer in the first competitions. We went to Richland and Pasco FLL competitions as well as the State FLL competition. We have attended the FTC World Competition.

 

We wanted to share this website in order to document our collective progress throughout the season and assist teams with information about our mechanical design, software programming, and notebook. In addition, we will also have information about what our robots are capable of doing during the autonomous, driver-controlled, and endgame periods of the competition.

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Thank you so much for coming on this journey with us!