We are FIRST Team 18603 and are part of the USC Robotics Club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Welcome to Terabridges! We are an Upper St Clair FTC team established back in 2020. Click on the button below to learn more about our members, mentors or alumni from previous years! If you’d rather not, direct yourself to the menu above and learn more about our team in general!

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  • Outreach: November 11 – First Lego League

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    It was great to hold the 3rd competitive scrimmage of FLL this year, and in fact, it was Terabridges that hosted this event this year. After the 4 educational scrimmages and 4 competitive scrimmages, the FLL teams will participate in a grand championship on the week of December 8th and December 9th.  Before we look at the specific teams,…

  • FIRST LEGO League Event – TeraBridges Tournament

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    The USC Robotics Club team TeraBridges is hosting a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) event on November 11th at Upper St Clair High School. Eight FLL teams comprised of Boyce & Fort Couch Middle School students will be participating in this event as well as several other teams from Southwestern PA.

  • Progress Report for 10/8/23

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    Today, on 10/8/23, we started to come up with a plan of attack. We did so by evaluating methods of gaining points by weighing the number of points we get through each action. For example, making a mosaic got our team 10 points, whereas putting a pixel on the backdrop during the driver control period…

  • Progress Report for 10/7/23

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    10/7/23 – Today, the software side continued on improving our detection for the April Tags, the pixel detection, and field-centric movement. It seems as if the pixels are readily able to detect the different color pixels with an astounding accuracy(0.95 was the numerical value given), but the bounding box around the pixel was a different…

  • Progress of Terabridges Team 9/16 and 9/17

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    9/16/23 – Today we disassembled last year’s robot and tried to replace it with a gobuilda motor for increased efficacy this year. The problem was that our team did not acquire the gear needed to attach the gobuilda motor, so we finished the software robot later. began assembling our software robot. We also brainstormed out…

  • An Overview of Terabridges and Upper St. Clair Robotics

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    Upper St. Clair High School has four FTC teams. They are Botsburgh, Rogo, Terabridges, and USC Dynamix. Terabridges, in the 2023-2024 season, consists of four 9th graders: Rohan Inampudi, Jackson Galbraith, Matt Beitler, and Josh Beitler. In addition, Sidharth Nambiar and William Whitman are two 10th graders on Terabridges; 11th graders include Ishaan Sharma and…

“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.”

Dean Kamen

Founder, FIRST