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Charging into future careers...

...one innovation challenge at a time!

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Be FIRST!

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a massive international robotics community and STEM-specific extracurricular program with over 1 million participants globally; delivering hands-on STEM learning that inspires innovation, builds confidence, and prepares kids for life through mentorship, teamwork, creativity, and engineering challenges.

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Join our Students!

Students from all around Sussex, Wisconsin participate in our FRC, FTC, and FLL programs and create globally competitive robots with the support of voluntary industry professionals and experts in the trades.

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Join our Mentors!

Industry professionals and FIRST alumni inspire students and pass their knowledge and skills on to the team to foster a competitive culture of high-achievers.

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Be a Sponsor!

Our focus on direct workforce preparation through multi-disciplinary engineering and entrepreneurship challenges has created important links to upstream talent development and streamlined recruitment initiatives with local businesses and global corporations.

By the numbers

Charger Robotics strives to build an inspirational and sustainable program while making a positive, measurable impact in our community.

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AWARDS

60+

We've been building a strong legacy with some of the most decorated teams in Wisconsin.

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SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

$80M +

Unique FIRST Scholarship programs are open.  Apply, apply, apply!!!

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STUDENTS

60+

We're building a strong talent pipeline to improve our world through STEM and Entrepreneurship!

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MENTORS & COACHES

20+

One of the key ingredients to success is the quality and commitment of our adult volunteers

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TEAMS

15

We've grown through the years to include 3 FLL explore teams, 5 FLL Challenge teams, 6 FTC teams and 1 FRC team.

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ALUMNI

600+

Our alumni are making a difference today.

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Many are employed by our sponsors and industry partners!

OUR PROGRAMS

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9 - 12

Grades 

FIRST® Robotics Competition teams design, program, and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play in a themed head-to-head challenge. Teams also build a brand, develop community partnerships for support, and work to promote STEM in their local community.

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FIRST® Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and program 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.

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5 - 8

Grades 

FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge introduces STEM to children through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experiences through a guided, global robotics program, helping today’s students and teachers build a better future together.

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FIRST® LEGO® League Explore introduces STEM to children through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experiences through a guided, global robotics program, helping today’s students and teachers build a better future together.

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Sussex Scrimmage

For 25 years, Charger Robotics has hosted a "Week 0" mock-competition to allow teams to test out their machines and strategies (and find out how they break) before they get to their first official competition event!

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Charger Robotics uses our robotic multi-launch T-shirt cannon to promote our team and our sponsors.

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