FIRST Tech Challenge · Millis, MA

Design it. Build it. Drive it.

Millis Dynamics puts students behind a competition robot: designed, machined, programmed, and driven by them, against schools across Massachusetts.

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Millis Dynamics

What the team does

Four jobs, one robot.

An FTC team is more than the two people holding the controllers. Whatever you are good at, or want to get good at, there is a seat for it.

Cut and assemble the structure, mount the motors, wire the control hub, and tune a drivetrain that survives a full day of matches.

Write the robot code in Blocks or Java, and squeeze every point you can out of the thirty-second autonomous period.

Model the robot in Onshape before a single part gets cut, then iterate when the game punishes your first idea.

Keep the engineering notebook judges read at every event, which is how teams win the Inspire Award, and run outreach and sponsorship.

The season

Every FTC team in the world plays the same game each season, revealed at kickoff in September and competed straight through the winter.

Dec – Mar
Qualifying tournaments

Massachusetts events run all winter, and they cluster east of Worcester, generally under an hour from Millis.
Late March
Massachusetts State Championship

The best teams in the state, and the judged awards that come with a strong engineering notebook.
Spring
FIRST Championship

Teams that advance out of states go on to the world championship, against teams from dozens of countries.

Follow along

Our code is public, and the rest of the team lives on these links.

Kits, registration, and a van to the tournament. Local businesses are how a competition team gets on the field, and their names ride along with it.

Sponsorship starts at $100, which already puts your name on the back of the team shirt, and you can pay at your own pace across the season.

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