Team 1729, Plan B 4-H Club, is a FIRST Robotics Competition team bringing students from Dublin School, Mascenic High School and Conval High School together. We also welcome students from outside these schools. We are a year-round team providing an exciting, hands-on learning environment focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
In the FIRST Robotics Competition, the different members of Team 1729 pool their unique talents and their thinking abilities into the construction of a robot. The goal is to create a fully functioning robot in six weeks, and then to compete in the competition with said robot. We team up with two other teams in an Alliance, and play a rival team in whatever game it is that year. While, yes, we wish to win, our larger goal is to inspire youth to look at the scientific and technological fields of work and, perhaps, even go into the field later in their life. We give high school students a chance to step up and take a leadership role, putting their own ideas into practice and working as a team to achieve a common goal.
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:09
About us
Written by Marc
Monday, 13 February 2012 16:04
Team 1729 is a FIRST Robotics Competition team which builds and meets at Dublin School in Dublin, New Hampshire. We welcome students from Dublin School, Conval High School and Mascenic High School along with several homeschooled students. We’re also a 4-H club, benefiting from the opportunities available via the University of New Hampshire and 4-H.
We were established in the summer of 2008 by students and area engineers. We provide an exciting, hands-on learning experience with professional engineers. FIRST Robotics Competition team members learn the value of education, teamwork, and gracious professionalism. Our graduates have gone onto college majoring in such diverse fields as chemical engineering, economics, robotics engineering, literature, and biology.
The FIRST Robotics Competition has been called the “hardest fun you’ll ever have.” For many people, the six and a half week building interval followed by one of more regional competitions are the highlight of the FIRST Robotics year. Each year students build a 120 pound robot capable of complex tasks in both autonomous and student driven modes. They prototype, design, build, test and program the robot using tools as varied as a lathe, a band saw, Java, and Solidworks.
Team 1729 extends this energy by attending off-season events throughout the year, reinforcing the spirit of innovation, competition with peers, and the excitement in this varsity of sport of the mind. Our off-season work also includes reaching out to the area children through our continuing participation in the New Ipswich Children’s Fair and hosting the National Youth Science Day event for our region. We stretch beyond our local area, reaching varied audiences through events such Robot Week at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts and a TEDx conference presentation at FIRST Place in Manchester, NH. In each case, students have brought our team’s robot and used it as a focal point for discussion, interaction and fun.
Without our mentors, we would not have the amazing opportunity to grow through teamwork and guidance. They assist us in the learning process, teaching us many aspects of engineering while helping us learn to cooperate with each other. Real world situations demand compromise and our mentors help us strategize and create workable solutions. Not every mentor is an engineer, though each helps us learn.
