Hillsborough High School "Hydra" Robotics

Hillsborough High School "Hydra" Robotics This student run club was established to promote science, technology, engineering, art, and mathemat Everything is student run.

This club was established to promote science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics to the youth of the community. We achieve this by competing in 4 different robotics competitions: VRC, FTC, FRC, and Robofest. These competitions can be as small as 17 teams in regionals—or they can be as large as 450 teams in worlds. Everything from mechanical advantage, to designs, to fabrication, to aest

hetics, to calculations is student picked. Because of this, much of the school curriculum is adapted and applied to situations we see, and further personal research done by students are carried to incoming members. As a result, no prior knowledge or experience is necessary to join this team. The team runs continuously throughout the year. Meetings are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the school year. However, we do schedule additional meetings during the school year, winter, and summer. In these meetings, we construct robots, educate members, and document our work. Outside of competition, we assist members in school, celebrate, and demonstrate our robots. To fully compete, the team can easily spend over $20,000+. To cut down, we engineer our robots to be as cost effective as possible and we recycle all of our materials. However, our funding is dependent on Mentor Support, Sponsorships, Grants, Parental Involvement, and our own Fundraisers. As a 501(c)3 company, we are tax deductible, and all donations go towards the students. This team has many perks for students at Hillsborough. As an International Baccalaureate and Traditional school, students require CAS hours and Service hours to graduate and earn scholarships. As an active robotics team, we can fully cover both of these areas. Following STEAM, students can integrate academic concepts and further develop skills in communication, financing, and most importantly, teamwork. However these perks do not come without devotion. We guide and motivate our students to be innovators, leaders, and representatives of our school, for we hope that this experience is something that they can carry on for the rest of their lives.

Thank you to all our friends and family who have helped us out before. Happy Thanksgiving!
11/26/2015

Thank you to all our friends and family who have helped us out before. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks again to Tech Start and Microsoft! You guys rock!
09/16/2015

Thanks again to Tech Start and Microsoft! You guys rock!

Technology at Hillsborough High School is getting a serious upgrade Tuesday. Microsoft is completely renovating the robotics team classroom for free, and this is upgrading future learning.

09/01/2015

Check us out on ABC action news tonight at 5:30 PM! Thank you once again and !

Team Hydra is the cover spread of one of five editions of the Hillsborough High yearbook! They are going fast, so get th...
04/27/2015

Team Hydra is the cover spread of one of five editions of the Hillsborough High yearbook! They are going fast, so get them before they're gone!

The FIRST Robotics competition was filled with many events that made the past week one to remember! We finished in 14th ...
03/15/2015

The FIRST Robotics competition was filled with many events that made the past week one to remember! We finished in 14th place overall (although we were third on the first day of competition) out of 64 teams and played in semi-finals!

Correction. Second place.
03/13/2015

Correction. Second place.

Hydra stops for a presentation by Limbitless, a prostheses developer for kids born with limb deficiencies at UCF! Go tea...
03/12/2015

Hydra stops for a presentation by Limbitless, a prostheses developer for kids born with limb deficiencies at UCF! Go teams at Central Florida FRC Regional!

It's been a jam packed day!
03/12/2015

It's been a jam packed day!

The ending to a very long day to say the least!
03/10/2015

The ending to a very long day to say the least!

02/27/2015

Hydra will be hosting a yard sale this Saturday at 1200 E. Idlewild Ave and would absolutely LOVE it if you came out to show some camaraderie! All proceeds go to pay for our trip to the Orlando FRC regional over Spring Break!

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Tampa, FL
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