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Riverdale Robotics Pandamonium won the Rookie All-star Award at the 2009 Oregon Regional Competition on Saturday, March 7th! Congratulations, team!

We are a rookie FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) team based at Riverdale High School in Portland, Oregon. Our team is officially The Boeing Company / BAE Systems & Riverdale High School FRC Team #2915. As part of the FIRST Robotics Challenge, our team creates a robot each year to score points in regional competitions. Our team participates as FRC Team #2915, Riverdale Robotics Pandamonium.

For the challenge we brainstorm, design, build, program, test, and refine a 100-to-120-pound robot to complete tasks and compete with an alliance of two other robots and against three other robots in a series of two-and-one-half-minute matches.

Robotics is a unique and cool activity. It is a "sport of the mind" that requires problem solving, innovation, creativity, and teamwork. Your contribution might be in design, mechanics, programming, video gaming (precise robot control!), marketing, business, photography, web design, or animation. No matter what your skills, we can use you on our team!

Robotics is completely run by us, the students. We have mentors who help us approach problems and work together effectively, but the robot is essentially completely student-designed and -built. It is incredible that fifteen or twenty young people can make a working robot that successfully completes tasks!

In the 2010 season, we plan to compete at the Oregon Regional. To learn about joining or sponsoring our team, contact us.

This is the first year we have hosted our website on our own server. Please feel free to browse our site and send any comments or suggestions to our webmaster (webmaster@riverdalerobotics.com).