About the Team

Our team is competing this January after spending the first semester designing, assembling and testing our robot. During this time we have helped the FIRST LEGO League competitions in our area, hosting a scrimmage, and hosting a Qualifying and regional tournament. Our team is made of mostly first year students; we have one member who has participated in our team for three years. We use this experience to encourage development of engineering skills with our team and those of others. During the FLL events our team was able to interact with VEXU team members. After our individual competition in January we will focus on preparing a robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition.

About Team Sponsor

Riverside STEM Academy is located in the northeast corner of the district. It is a magnet school within Riverside Unified School District, built on the site of Hyatt Elementary School adjacent to the University of California, Riverside. As a magnet school, it accepts students from all over the district and adjacent districts. Building on an elementary school's design, the high school uses portables to house classes in the various subjects offered in traditional high schools, and has acquired and built engineering tools to help make it a STEM high school. This effort continues to develop and the district has worked with UCR to consider developing a separate site for the high school. The campus houses a middle school as well. This gives a unique opportunity for students and teachers to interact between school levels. In 2022, the middle school developed three FIRST LEGO League teams that competed in Riverside county as the high school helped support the competitions in the city of Riverside.