Worlds Bound! FRC#8573 Rogue Rangers Legacy Robotics Team

UPDATE:

Our team qualified for the 2025 FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas on April 16-19, 2025. We are honored to announce that our team has won the Impact Award at the Texas District Championship. The team will be representing the great state of Texas at the FIRST World Championship in 2 weeks. We are asking for your continued support to help our students be part of this amazing experience. Your contributions will allow our team opportunities to continue being successful. Donations will go to fees, meals, lodging, and travel. Thank you to everyone who has donated we truly appreciate all the support.

Our Rogue-Rangers Legacy FRC #8573 is a Community-Based Robotics team from McAllen, TX, that competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) platform from South Texas. We are a high school-aged team that competes head-to-head on a full size arena with robots that have been designed, built, and programmed by students. We are a robotics team, but "We are more than Robots". Our main initiative is to give back to our community and ensure that all students in South Texas (the Rio Grande Valley region) are provided an opportunity to shine. Our outreach and community involvement has gotten our team recognition by mentors, coaches, and professionals in the Engineering industry. On March 17, 2025, our team was selected as the Victoria District Event - Impact Award Winner. The FIRST Impact Award is the most prestigious award in FIRST, it honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST. It was created to keep the central focus of FIRST Robotics Competition on the ultimate goal of transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for Science and Technology, as well as encouraging more of today’s youth to become Science and Technology leaders. This award granted our team an automatic qualification to the FIRST in Texas District "State" Robotics Championship in Houston, TX on April 2-5, 2025. We are one of eleven Impact Award Winners in Texas and the first-ever to win this prestigious award in the Rio Grande Valley in back-to-back seasons. Our team has the opportunity to advance to the 2025 FIRST World Championship as an Impact Award team to represent the great state of Texas.

We are in great need of funding to be able to provide our team with an amazing opportunity to compete. Your generous donations will go to our Robot Restructuring/parts, registration fees, meal, and lodging for our students. With your assistance, the donations will fund a campaign that is providing students in the Rio Grande Valley Region an opportunity to compete against the best robotics teams in Texas. We will be competing for a chance to go to the FIRST World Championship In Houston, TX. We thank you in advance for any donation contributed. You are giving FRC team #8573 (The Rogue-Rangers Legacy) a chance to make history in South Texas and leave a lasting Legacy for future STEM students to follow.

Team History and Awards

https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/8573/history