Melbourne Robocats 5648

FRC Team #5648 Melbourne RoboCats team is an All-Female FIRST Robotics Competition community team with 15-18 students from schools all over Melbourne, who come together to design, build, and create amazing robots to compete at the FIRST Robotics Competition. The FIRST Robotics Competition inspires young people aged 14-18years of age, to be science and technology leaders and innovators by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. Melbourne RoboCats, being an All-Girls’ Community team, provides the opportunities for young girls to explore their passions in STEM. Our team strives to excel in all facets of the program, from competitive success to community presence. We work towards building the most competitive robot possible and creating the most robust matched strategy, in addition to qualifying for other technical and non-technical awards, including learning the process of teamwork, building life-long friendships and connections, as a team in the local community and Global cohort of like-minded individuals who aspire to achieve high levels of achievements, whilst keeping to Professionalism and Ethical behaviour at the highest through the Core values of FIRST’s Gracious Professionalism.