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TEAM UPDATES

  • DECODE Season Kick Off!

    On September 6, 2025, TeraBridges 18603 attended the official kickoff for the new FTC season! This year’s game is called DECODE™, presented by RTX, and it’s all about exploring artifacts, uncovering mysteries, and bringing archaeology to life through robotics. We watched the game reveal as a team and got our first look at the brand-new…

  • TeraBridges Software Team Visits Main Street Autonomy

    Earlier this month, our software team had the chance to visit Main Street Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based company that specializes in calibration, localization, and mapping software. Unlike some of our recent visits that focused more on hardware, this experience gave us the opportunity to dive deep into the software side of robotics. We met with six…

  • Pittsburgh’s Building Bridges Day 2025

    On August 23, 2025, TeraBridges had an awesome time at the 3rd Annual Building Bridges Day in Pittsburgh, PA! The event is all about bringing people together and celebrating unity, and we were so excited to share how robotics can help “build bridges” in our community.  We set up a whole area where visitors of…

  • Washington & Jefferson College Outreach

    On July 22, 2025, Terabridges went to Washington Jefferson College to spread the values and skills that are imperative in the FIRST community and give then an overview of our team.   What we did:  We presented about FIRST programs and gave them a season overview about our team and how it works, where we met with students…

  • Summer Robotics Camp: XRP & Orbit Odyssey!

    5 days: July 28 – August 1 (1-4:30 pm daily) Ready to launch into an unforgettable week of robotics and hands-on engineering? Join High School robotics team TeraBridges for an exciting camp designed just for 7th and 8th graders, where students will build XRP robots and zoom into the game Orbit Odyssey! What to Expect:Campers will design, build, and…

  • Go Baby Go Outreach

    On May 3, 2025, Team Terabridges, in collaboration with the amazing Physical and Occupational Therapy students at the Chatham University Eastside Campus, had the joy of donating custom ride-on toy cars through the Go Baby Go program! Go Baby Go, a nationwide initiative that partners with families, clinicians, and communities, creates adaptive equipment for children…

FIRST IS MORE THAN ROBOTS. The robots are a vehicle for students to learn important life skills. Kids often come in not knowing what to expect of the program nor of themselves. They leave, even after the first season, with a vision, with confidence, and with a sense that they can create their own future.”

Founder, FIRST