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We are FRC Team 3506. We build competition robots in Charlotte and run FIRST programs for a few hundred students a year.

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The 2024 robot on the field during a qualification match

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Since 2010

Robots built: 14
Seasons competed: 15
Sponsors: 40+
Outreach programs: 8

Recent robots

Fourteen robots since 2010. See all of them.

Kitty, the 2024 robot, on a cart in the YETI shop

2024Kitty

Crescendo

Our 2024 robot for Crescendo presented by Haas.

Placeholder image for Aurora, the 2022 robot

2022Aurora

Rapid React

Our most successful competition season. Aurora went 35-14-0 in official play and finished 8th in North Carolina, on a turreted shooter that could adjust trajectory in almost any direction.

Black Ice, the 2016 robot, on the competition field

2016Black Ice

FIRST Stronghold

Our most decorated robot. Black Ice won the NC State Championship and the Guilford County event, and could damage every defense from the front except the drawbridge and sally port.

Winner — NC District — Guilford County Event
Chairman's Award — NC District — Guilford County Event
Entrepreneurship Award — NC District — Asheville Event
Finalist — NC District — Campbell University Event
Entrepreneurship Award — NC District — Campbell University Event
Winner — NC State Championship
Regional Chairman's Award — NC State Championship
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award — Lia Schwinghammer — NC State Championship

Build with us this season

No experience needed. Come to recruitment night and drive last year's robot.