Engineering and technology education have never been as important as it is now. As a society we face daily assaults on our economy and our environment that can only be solved through a better educated work force. Team 237 offers high school students in Watertown a program that encourages engineering and technology education. The FIRST Robotics program provides a hands-on introduction to engineering and problem solving that influence their career choices. The FIRST program presents an engineering problem in the format of a competitive game. The students have six weeks for solve the problem and build a robot to do this. At the end of the six weeks, the robot is shipped to regional based competitions where our students test their solution against high schools from around the world.

Vision

"To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders." - Dean Kamen, Founder

Mission

Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.

More information on FIRST can be found on their website.

This program is self funded. We receive no funding from the school budget, except for a teacher stipend. The team needed an organization to raise funds to run the team. Watertown FIRST Robot, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that does this. Please contact us if you would like to help.

This program is unique in that we actively mentor the students in a one to one work environment. The students conceive what the solution to the challenge is and the engineering mentors work beside them to make their solution a working robot.

Without our dedicated mentors, we would not be able to provide this program to the students of WHS.

How to contact us

Team 237 is based out of Watertown High School, 324 French St Watertown, CT 06795. Due to construction at WHS, we will be building at Swift Middle School this season.

Our Mailing address is:
Watertown FIRST Robot Inc.
PO Box 642
Watertown, CT 06795

Email: team237@gmail.com
Tel: 203-577-5733

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