Inspiring Others

Weather Balloon Launch

On January 4th, our team sent a weather balloon 95,000 ft into the atmosphere. We launched the balloon in Sheridan Roadside Park. A couple hours later the weather balloon landed. Only a couple members of our team were able to retrieve it because it had landed in a farmers field in Canada. We retrieved the balloon and took all the footage off of the camera and created a video of the balloons trip in the atmosphere. “It was so cool to watch the balloon go up, and the footage afterward. It was such a fun experience!”

Bionic Black Hawks in China!
仿生黑鹰在中国!

In the summer of 2018, the Bionic Black Hawks participated in the Chinese Robotics Championship and the Qianjiang International Robotics Invitational. We presented to Chinese teams about Chairman’s, and gave them help with their awards submissions. We also mentored 2 teams before competition, helping with build, programming, and electrical.

Bloomfield Girls Robotics Competition

Since 2012, we've co-hosted The Bloomfield Girl Robotics Competition as an initiative to further Girls' involvement in FIRST. On November 10, our 6th annual Bloomfield Girls Robotics Competition was held at Bloomfield Hills High School with 32 teams participating in the event.

Proceeds from the event, make it possible to award five $1000 scholarships to distinguished highs school senior girls. Our aim as a team is to encourage all girls to participate in STEAM and share their transformative ideas with others, which is exactly what this competition harnesses. The event was held at Bloomfield High School, home of the Bionic Black Hawks team 2834. The event was co-hosted and co-organized with team 33 (Killer Bees), 68 (Truck Town Thunder), and 469 (Las Guerrillas).

FLL Girls Summer Camp

During the summer our girls organizer an all girls STEAM camp, where middle schools girls express their creativity and innovative ideas. They test science experiments, teach them about programming, CAD, engineering, and also give them an up close look of the high school robotics team robot.

Girl Scouts International River Crossing

Every year we host Girl Scout events complementing our competitions, and join with FRC 772 Sabre Bytes at the International River Crossing where over 3000 girls from the US and Canada have been inspired by our robot demo and learn about gear ratios. This year we mentored the Purple Protons (7048) to help the Girl Scouts earn their robotics badges as well.