Utah FIRST Robotics

Have you ever thought to yourself: "Kids these days don't learn enough real world skills in High School" ?

Well, here's your chance to change that — donate to Utah First Robotics and your money will go directly to Alta High School's Robotics Club where students learn to design, program and build real competition robots with the help of industry mentors and engineers.

This program makes an incredible impact on the lives of students right here in Sandy, UT. 100% of your money goes directly to buying tools, materials and parts for the kids' robots—never to administrative costs, salaries or to the benefit of adults. Your donation is tax deductible.

Every dollar gets us one nut or bolt closer to success. Help Alta High School Robotics Club win their regional competitions and make it to the National Championship in Houston, Texas!

The Hive is a 16-year-old High School FIRST Tech Challenge team, based in Sandy, Utah. Last year, we went to the World Championship for the first time ever. This year, we continually improved and reached greater heights, and we need your help to fund our trip to the World Championship at Houston. We're a team of diverse economic backgrounds, and your funding will help us take our entire team to the World Championship that they earned.

This was us after we won the Final match, along with our partner the Cubed ET's, and qualified for the World Championship.

This is one of our robot matches, where we scored a Utah State Record of 320 points!

Being part of a FIRST Tech Challenge team requires a lot of effort, both in terms of hardware and software, as well as outreach and impact. Our student-led team works with industry professionals to work hands-on, and we CAD, design, build, program, drive, test, fundraise, and document our own robot.

This is our robot, Beecon. We named her Beecon as we found that "Just as a Beecon lights the sea, we light up FTC." The impact we have on our community is massive, where we've started, mentored, and assisted over 13 FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Lego League teams.

One example of a team we've helped is Cyberviking 1. Cyberviking 1 is an FTC team based in West Virginia, made up of only one kid: CJ. We met CJ over Zoom and donated parts, fundraised money, and mentored him throughout his season. When we found out he couldn't compete, we decided to fly him out to Utah, where we competed alongside him and broke two State Records with him.

The money you donate to us has real impact, and with your help we can take all of our members to the World Championship in Houston. Our members have worked extremely hard for this opportunity, and your donation could be the deciding factor of us going to the Championship.

We are the Cubed ETs, an all-girl, community FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) Robotics team. We are a small, 4-girl, team based out of Taylorsville, Utah working to build opportunities for girls in STEM through outreach and social events. We work hard to build competitive robots and spark others to embrace the FIRST community. This season, we won the Inspire, Connect, Control, and Motivate Awards which recognize our efforts in both the STEM Community and Robot Programming, as well as competing in Finals at all of our Qualifiers and State competition.

We are 3-year FTC Utah State Champions who have finally earned an opportunity to compete on the World stage at the FIRST Championship held in Houston, Texas in April, 2025. We appreciate your help in funding this incredible opportunity. Let’s get these girls to Houston and let the best in Utah compete with the best from all around the World!

Please share this amazing opportunity with your friends and family, anyone who supports helping girls in STEM. If you would like to officially sponsor our team, please reach out for further opportunities. To learn more about our robotics journey you can find us on Social Media:

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/840098977113296) and

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@cubedets20515).

We are BEESTAR! A FLL (First Lego League) robotics team from Beehive Academy. We are heading to the World Championship In Texas in April 2025! Our team has put in over 600 hours of outreach, plus more than 1050 hours of after school time working on our robot! This took a lot of hard work, dedication, and grit to achieve.

But… we need your help. Our team comes from many different backgrounds and some can’t afford to pay for this opportunity.

Competing at worlds comes with costs like:

We’re hoping to raise the money you see in the goal to cover these expenses so we can make the most of this amazing opportunity.

Every donation counts, our team is truly thankful for every dollar helping us achieve this amazing accomplishment.

Our journey to this point hasn’t always been easy. We are a team consisting of half men, half women, and diverse backgrounds that always have very different minds. And yet, we work together as one, getting 425/600 points on our robot game and inventing a soon to be patent pending Up Detector for Scuba divers.

How our soon to be patent pending Up Detector works:

Each of our team designs and programs the robot to complete as many missions as the robot autonomously can in 2 minutes 30 seconds.

We program our robot in Python for consistency and speed. We use real engineering techniques including proportional control.

Our coach wanted to say to you, "These kids inspire me every day. Despite the trials and frustrations of middle school and external obstacles in their lives, they live up to their expectations of being a good person, learning much, working hard, and finding joy in each other and the work. I cannot fund them alone. Your help will help us cross the finish line and help them all compete."

Help Hillcrest High School’s Robotics team attend the 2025 World Championship!

Hillcrest High School’s Husky Robotics won the top award at the Utah Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) FRC competition. This award comes with an invitation for the team to compete in 2025 FIRST World Championships in Houston TX.

Help these awesome students take the trip they worked so hard to qualify for. Your support will go towards travel costs (hotel, flight and local transportation), shipping costs (each team brings tools, motors, spare parts to repair/improve their robot at the event) and materials to improve our robot before this competition. As you can see below, they are so excited about this opportunity!

Husky Robotics is doing a lot more than building robots. One of Husky Robotics primary goals is to make meaningful STEM education available to everyone, regardless of their background. We have started and mentored robotics teams at homeless shelters and Midvale middle schools. We are active in the community, bringing our robots to Midvale’s Harvest Days. We also partner with Primary Children’s Hospital and Seacrest Studios to give weekly interactive STEM and engineering lessons for patients. Husky Robotics is working with Utah HOPE Squad to promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention. Thank you for your support!