About Our Team
Orbit Robotics is a community team that was founded in 2015 by a group of experienced volunteer adult mentors to offer FIRST programs to students who did not have access to a school team.
As we are independent of any school board, we have to raise our operating funds through membership fees (50%), grants, donations and sponsors.
Largely based on word of mouth recruitment by current members and their families, we have a mature FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team with 60+ members from over 20 local high schools.
Through our relationship with the Halton STEM Club, we support four FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams with members from over 15 local elementary schools.
Our primary mission is to inspire students to be STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & mathematics) and FIRST leaders by providing real-life experiences to students who don’t have these opportunities at their schools. We embrace the vision that we are not just people building robots, but we understand that the FRC experience is actually about robots building people. We strive not only to increase STEAM enthusiasm, excitement and education, but more importantly to give our students confidence, an abundance of leadership opportunities, a chance to hone their personal skills, and the ability to work as a team.
Our core philosophy is making FIRST, and consequently STEAM, accessible and inclusive to all who wish to take part. Going forward we will build on our many successes and continue to spread the language and values of FIRST.
What You Can Learn
- Opportunities to enrich your leadership, presentation, teamwork, and problem solving skills in a stimulating and creative environment.
- Experience hands-on learning in many STEAM areas including design, build, electrical, engineering, machining, media, animation, and programming in a dynamic setting.
- Advance your skills of creative problem solving, working with sponsors in industry, making a business plan, planning events, writing essays, and speaking in a professional manner.
- Experience the world of handling professional social media platforms, photography, video and photo editing, branding and marketing.
- Work with dedicated mentors from many backgrounds who together have over 250 years of experience guiding students on FRC teams.
- Have fun! Enjoy collaborating with other students who are passionate about improving their STEAM skills.
Join Our Team!
Learn more about our different teams, and how to join on our membership page.