Our Mission:
To design, build, and program a robot that can perform well during matches and do outreach in the community to empower women by highlighting the multitude of opportunities provided by FIRST, and helping to build the next powerful generation of scientists, engineers, and leaders.
Here on Prototype G, we recognize that connecting with our community and developing soft skills by spreading the word of FIRST is just as important designing, building, and programming robots as well as documenting the process in our engineering notebook.
Date Team Formed:
June 2016
Team Summary:
FTC Team 11306 - Prototype G, was founded in the summer of 2016 by the YWCA (which strives to empower women in all fields of study) located in Princeton NJ.
Our team is an all-girls robotics team that consists of 10 dedicated and enthusiastic girls across NJ, guided by 7 mentors from various fields. Our mentors include researchers at Princeton University, engineers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, the Vice-President of AECOM, as well as college and high school students. Our team currently mentors 2 FLL teams, Orange Alert and DigiMinds, who won 1st and 3rd place for the Core Values awards respectively at their qualifier. We have also been mentoring various FTC team from across the United States including our sister team on theoretical computer science, documentation, building, and fundamental Java.
Prototype G in the Media:
These Vibes are Too Cosmic - A Podcast - Explaining our work
NJ Today - Advancement
Mercer Space - Advancement
Central Jersey - Advancement
Community News - Advancement
Cosmo Robots, the Blog - Collaboration
Our STEM Collaborations:
Prototype G x Girls in STEM Blog - We are guest writers and the new faces for the Girls in STEM Blog. You can find our work here.