The Children are our Future

The picture above is part of the team that hosted a First Tech Challenge at the Liberty Science Center in January.

With this in mind the JDroids First Tech Challenge Team looks to teach the Wayne Area about Robotics
Do you have a group/organization that would like to learn about FIRST and Robotics, at no charge, feel free to reach out to Jdroids.

They can be found on the web at https://www.facebook.com/jdroids/ or you can contact them @ James.Giotis@gmail.com. If you would like to donate or be a sponsor for the team, they are an approved 503-C organization, for details please contact us at the above email addresses.

The Jdroids are a student run group of 15, 7th to 11th grade students that design, program, and build a robot to compete in local, regional, state and even the World Championships in the US. They do all of this work in addition to our normal school work. This is not a school run program, this is a program run out of Maker Depot, a workerspace in Totowa, NJ, that the students do in their free time. The team is made up of students of the Wayne, NJ area.

In addition to designing and building a robot, based on that year's theme, the young people reach out to the community and teach other young people about FIRST and robotics. As a matter of fact in 2018-19 they conducted over 100 events to teach young people about robotics all over NJ. They have taught children from 5 years old to 16+ about building robots. These motivated young robotics enthusiasts worked hard to build a World Championship Robot that competed in Detroit from April 24 to 27. As a result of their hard work, they were nominated for one of 7 awards. The Jdroids were 1 of 160 teams from around the world competing to be crowned World Champions of the FIRST Robotics competition.

They will be competing in the NJ State Finals on March 15, 2020. Let's wish them luck on their quest to go to the World Championship 2 years in a row.