Since the 2024 Championship, in April, we have been very busy this summer.

We started the offseason by participating in team interviews to help pick new team leads.This gives students the opportunity for students to learn leadership skills in the offseason. The interviews give students the chance to create a resume and cover letter and also give team members the opportunity to go through the formal interview process.

To kickoff the last week of school and Team 930's offseason we shared demos with the community. Starting at Park View Middle School, we demoed our robot to 8th graders during their automation and robotics classes. They got to learn about different parts of our team and the FIRST mission. Students also fed notes to, and got to drive our robot. We also demoed at the Mukwonago Community Library's Summer Kickoff, where we conversed with the community about what our team does and how our season went. Finally demoed at Clarendon elementary school where students got to participate in STEM related activities.

June 22nd and 23rd was our Badge Bash Weekend. On the 22nd was the BSA event and the 23rd was the Girl Scout Event. In total 49 scouts attended both events! Badges were earned through hard work and dedication to build and program LEGO robots, with many various activities. All scouts truly had an amazing time and they showed what it means to be a scout.

Moving forward, our first offseason competition we competed at was Laser Lights, hosted by FRC Team 2077. We ended up taking 2nd place and were chosen by #2 seeded Team, Team 2194, Fondy Fire along with Team 1792, Roundtable Robotics. We made it all the way to finals, unfortunately falling just short of the win.

We then hosted our own competition, the Mukwonago Robotics Offseason Competition (MROC), for the third year in a row. At MROC, we host tournament-level play comparable to a FIRST Regional. Along with the competition we have educational workshops, a team social, and mentor matches. We also ran a school supplies donation drive that collected 27 backpacks filled with school supplies that will help support the Milwaukee Rescue Mission’s Cross Trainer Academy Students.

We also had a booth at Mukwonago’s National Night Out which was a huge success! We showed our community what Team 930 does during a season, by demoing our Kitbot and Competition bot on display. We had 333 kids come and interact with Kitbot by catching the shot notes, while having our Season and MROC videos playing on the side.

Our last offseason event, Leviathans Robotic Rampage, or LRR, was an amazing experience! We came to the field with three different robots, and came home with a banner and a 3D printed award. 9993 was knocked out of the game during the elimination bracket, ironically by 930. And soon after 930 was also knocked out of the game, leaving 9990 to compete in the Finals. Successfully, 9990 was able to bring our team home a banner, as well as their alliance partners 8744, Leviathans, and 2531, RoboHawks. We are very grateful for Leviathans for holding this event, and helping us to bring home the win!

As we wrap up our events of the offseason, we encourage high school students to come to our shop when meetings start back up in October and look out for any further updates on our social media.

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