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We are Team 302, proud members of the FIRST Robotics Competition, with our sponsors by our side we are ready to achieve the impossible and learn new technology for the future. Students work with mentors to learn and develop skills that prepare them for what’s ahead and the professionalism that they must know to achieve a high goal in the engineering and business world. FIRST is thinking of the future and the future starts with the student of tomorrow.

FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is a dedicated Non-Profit organization and Competition for several different types of teams for different grade levels. FIRST strives to keep its students up to date with industry standard software and technology to better ones knowledge of their possible career pathway. With this in mind FIRST creates challenging activities for numerous teams to compete in. FIRST’s competitions include:

• FIRST Robotics Competition
• FIRST Vex Challenge
• FIRST LEGO League
• Junior FIRST LEGO League

Team 302, the Mechanical Dragons, is a partnership between Lake Orion High School, The Chrysler Foundation, and many other sponsors. Team 302 has been involved with FIRST since 1996. We are a highly competitive team with highly involved students and mentors. Our team has been very successful in the variety of games that FIRST has thrown at us. We continue to strive for gracious professionalism, and spreading the FIRST dream of engineering throughout our community.

Overdrive is played by two, three-team alliances on a 54’x26’ field with a lane divider down the center of the field, and an overpass running across the field. To score, teams pass four color coded "trackballs" (two for each alliance) across four goal lines, and earn additional points for passing a "trackball" over top of an overpass. The game is made up of two scoring periods: hybrid and tele-operated. The first period is hybrid mode, in which the robots operate without human control for 15 seconds (with the exception of the ability to receive four commands from a human). In the autonomous period, robots try to make as many laps around the field, or "track" as possible. During the second period the robots are controlled by human drivers for two minutes. In this period the teams will attempt to score as many points as possible by working together with their alliance partners. To find out more about this year's game, you can watch the kickoff video here.

You can view the award submissions that each sub-team submitted this season on the Sub-Teams page. We will provide updated information about the progress of our award submissions as it becomes available to us.