OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, May 18, 2024

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Smith Road Elementary School

1135 Smith Rd. Temperance, MI, 48182

Every year, we have a Open House to present FIRST Robotics to our community members who are interested in learning more about our FRC, FTC, FLL Challenge, and FLL Explore teams. This event marks the beginning of our 2024-2025 season and is a great opportunity to sign up for a FIRST team. Our FRC teams are set up in the Gym, our FTC teams are set up in the Media Center, while our FLL Challenge and FLL Explore are set up in the classrooms.

K-12 Registration Open

New/Current members sign up for your team for FLL Explore (K-3rd), FLL Challenge (4th-5th), FTC (6th-8th) and FRC (9th-12th). Students will heighten their skills in STEAM as they learn about the core values of teamwork, inclusion, innovation, impact, discovery, and fun.

What is FIRST Robotics?

Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. We call FIRST Robotics the ultimate sport for the mind. High-school student participants call it “the most fun you’ll ever have.”

Under strict rules and limited time and resources, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and construct industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game against like-minded competitors. It’s as close to real-world engineering as a student can get. Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team. Each season ends with an exciting FIRST Championship.

Two robots about to balance on a bridge while the crowd watches

Bedford Robotics Programs

A program for high school aged students (9th-12th grade), this is the highest level of FIRST Robotics. In the FIRST Robotics Challenge, students apply their designs and skills to not only their specific challenge, but to solve real world problems.

FRC

FTC

This program is for Jr. High aged students (6th-8th grade). The five FIRST Tech Challenge teams in Bedford focus on expanding students’ ideas and elevating their work to another level.

FLL Explore

This program gives students in kindergarten to 3rd grade the opportunity to become interested in science and engineering. Bedford currently has 14 FIRST Lego League Explore teams.

FLL Challenge

A program for 4th and 5th grade students, Bedford has six FIRST Lego League Challenge teams. The goal of this program is to further students’ knowledge and interest in STEAM practices.

2024 IMPACT VIDEO

This is the Impact video for FRC Team 1023, Bedford Express. We created this video to showcase how our team impacted our community and improved lives beyond Bedford with our Inclusivity movement, and it was played for the public for the first time at our Robot Unveil.

BX Social Medias

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Contact Us

Feel free to reach out to us with any questions regarding our entire program or robotics in general!