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Our Teams
Ever since its creation in 2012, Western High School's FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams have kindled creativity, exercised critical thinking, and inspired future engineers while celebrating and embracing all races, ethnicity, and genders. In its inaugural year, the robotics program only had one FTC team with seven members. Now, our program has grown to four teams that annually advance to the State Championships. Each team is unique in their own way and strives to uphold the values of FIRST. Team 6322 Wiredcats Origin is Western's first team, Team 9110 Wiredcats Omega is the second, and Team 10022 Wiredcats Gen 3 is the third. Western's fourth team, 10366 Wiredcats Future, encourages middle school students from across Broward County to come together and participate in robotics.
The Western Wiredcats are now competing for their ninth year in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). On our team, we come together to share ideas, collaborate, and sharpen our engineering skills. Unlike FTC, the presence of one FRC Team (5872) in the program embraces and encourages all our students to come together and participate. The team currently has many members who work in five different fields: mechanical, software, electrical, marketing, and administration. Despite member experience in the FIRST Tech Challenge competitions, FRC provides rigorous, unique difficulties that challenge our students. Given the team's determination and resilience, this added difficulty does not hinder the team but instead drives members to Imagine the Impossible.