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During the Greater Boston District Event, the Outliers were awarded the Autonomous Controls Engineering Award. This award made the Outliers one of only 23 teams in the world to receive all six of FIRST’s Engineering awards. The Outliers are the youngest team to win the hexfecta at only 6 years old. Check us out on News Center 6! https://www.newscentermaine.com/video/news/local/maine-robotics-team-joins-elite-group/97-0972458e-da78-47dd-9b2e-c76d47d379d5
WGME13 visited Baxter Academy to learn more about Flex Friday. While visiting, WGME13 stopped by to learn more about our Flex Friday project: robotics. Check out the video! https://wgme.com/news/forward-thinking/flex-friday-gives-students-at-baxter-academy-chance-to-work-on-yearlong-projects
The first ranked alliance of The Outliers - Team 5687, Nutrons - Team 125, and Robosaints - Team 1307 have won this year’s Greater Boston event!
Together, The Outliers 5687, Mechanical Mayhem 1519, and Northern Horizons 7416, went onto victory. The Outliers have won Granite State three years in a row.
The first ranked alliance of The Outliers 5687, BERT 133, and NRG 4055 took home a blue banner at the Pine Tree District Event. See the article in the Portland Press Herald! https://www.pressherald.com/2019/04/06/portland-charter-school-wins-robotics-competition/
Along with our glorious captains 125 and our stalwart alliance partners 1796 and 597, The Outliers have won St Louis's Carson division.
Ranked #1 after qualifications with a score of 8-3, The Outliers joined forces with teams 1058 and 4908. Holding the world high-score briefly during the elimination bracket, Team 5687 captained their alliance to victory in an intense series of matches.
A handful of Outliers are attending the FLL State Champs in Augusta. They, along with members of BERT, Delta Prime, and Orange Chaos are demonstrating their Stronghold robots.
Members of The Outliers mentor a number of FLL teams, including The Foxbots from Friends School of Portland. The Foxbots placed second in the Southern Maine qualifier and will be competing at the Maine State Championships on 12/10 at the Augusta Civic Center.
Congratulations Foxbots!
The Outliers will be on hand to cheer them on and to demo our Stronghold robot, Christine. Stop by and give her a spin!