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Welcome to the online home of Exploding Bacon!Exploding Bacon is in need of fiscal support to help make ends meet for this year's competition. We know times are rough but every cent helps us get closer to spreading STEM principles to high school students!
Our mission is to inspire youth using 4-H principles along with the tenets of gracious professionalism to explore science and technology through a mentor based program, which develops leadership and life skills and encourages innovative, creative solutions to engineering and technical challenges.
4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics is a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC) team based in Orlando, Florida. Adults serve as mentors to guide the student members in team management, engineering and computer programming, and essential leadership skills. The goal is to inspire students to pursue degrees in science and technology while teaching them how a "company" works.
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2010 FRC game BREAKAWAY
This dynamic challenge allows for numerous strategies, making for interesting gameplay.
Please join us in looking forward to the 2010 game "Breakaway!"
The game animation can be found here.
Bacon has taken over YouTube! Click here to check out our new "Makin' Bacon" fundraiser.
News
Oink Oink BOOM! Bacon brings home the gold from the inaugural North Carolina regional event! We joined teams 1086 (Blue Cheese) and 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) to score the regional win. We also won the prestigious Industrial Design award, which celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge. Next stop, Atlanta for the world championship event!
FIRST Robotics Team 1902 recently competed at the Florida Regional at the UCF arena, fun was had by all and the team did outstanding. We won the Imagery award, got to the semi-finals and were awarded the Regional Chairmans award, the highest honor bestowed on a team at the regional level.
We hosted the FRC Kick-Off event at the 4H center, and it looks like a great game!
FTC qualifier competition: "Robofest," where we also won the Inspire Award.
FTC qualifier competition in Tampa. We won the Inspire Award, the most prestigious award a team can earn.
LAN Party fundraiser
Many students volunteered at Special Olympics and cheered for the athletes! Fantastic job to all those involved!
Bacon partnered with Chick-fil-a to create 200 boxes of food for the less fortunate for Thanksgiving.
Formal presentation at Fluid Power Society with other robotics teams; very proud to be newly sponsored by them!
At "Robot Rodeo," an off-season even, we we won the competition with our fellow friend: team B.A.D.
Hosted the Kick-Off event for local teams to view the release of the new challenge.
Demo at 4H day!
We presented at the "Back to School" Event that provides school supplies to the less fortunate children of the community
Indiana Regional Invitational: We participated in this off-season event were we let new drivers try out the robot.
Bacon conquors the north with a positively explosive Connecticut Regional win! Oink Oink BOOM!
1902 brings home the bacon with two awards at Florida Regional, scoring Animation and Gracious Professionalism. Our robot ended up at 25th seed, eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Wish us luck at the 2009 Florida FIRST Regional today, tomorrow and Saturday! Come out to the UCF Arena to see us play, or watch live from the comfort of your home with the webcast!
Congrats to the FTC team for Winning the Florida State FTC Inspire Award. This qualifies them to go to the World Championships in Atlanta.
Congrats to Chandra Goodell for coming in 2nd at the 4-H Share the Fun day. She is now qualified to go on to the District level.
Congrats to Maximum Ice for having their Polar Bear choosen to be displayed at the FLL World Festival.
Congrats to Jerry for coming in 2nd at the Regional Science Fair in the computer science category! He was also awarded the Army Special Award as well as the Navy Special Award
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