On November 9th the team sponsored a STEM night, and invited the area Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and the kids from our new FIRST Lego League teams to come see our robots, and take a tour of our shop! The students had a great time giving tours, talking abut CAD, showing 3D printing, and teaching the kids how to drive and work out robots! They had lots of great questions and were very interested in the robots and shop.

On November 17th, the team was at Moe's BBQ in Bangor and had its yummiest fund raiser yet! Team members helped bring people food and cleared tables. Moe's gave a  portion of sales for the day, tips, plus donations, making this an excellent fund raiser for the team! Thank you so much! You can find them here http://www.moesoriginalbbq.com/lo/bangor/

The programmers would like to share all the cool stuff they have been working on over the past 2 years! There is so much stuff going on inside the robots that makes them go, but remains invisible. So if you are interested in the inner workings of FIRST robots check out the teams GITHUB site, the site includes competition coding, off-season coding and raspberry pi coding. And coming soon, this summers Balance Bot (still a work in progress) coding! Check it out at http://www.github.com/FRC4564

Cass and Drew's team of "Trash Trek"-ers (the name of this years game) took 3rd place out of 60 teams on Saturday at the state meet, in August at the Maine Robotics Expo! Super proud of all the teams! Read more Maine Lego Competition!

On November 27th another group of team members were very busy at a First Lego League Northern Qualifier competition in Old Town! We are very excited to introduce Team 19821 Lego Catastrophe of Bangor, mentored by Cass and Drew, and Team 18539 L.O.C.Hness, our home school team, mentored by Kendra and her family. Early in September the team helped the home schoolers build their competition table, and Cass's team came to the shop to make buttons for their team. Lego Catastrophe came in 5th place at the qualifier! Read about it here FIRST Lego League Northern Qualifier
L.O.C.Hness (stands for League of Coding Heros) didn't qualify, but Kendra said she heard one of her team members say, "Well I didn't start out dknowing what I was doing, but in the end we worked it out." Kendra said, "this surprised me, professional, real team stuff". We love that our student mentors are having a huge impact on the next generation of robot inspired kids! Good luck at the Championships!

In support of STEM the team hosted the Vex competition for the second year, teams from all over the state arrived early Saturday morning and competed all day, Their game this year Nothing But Net was a great challenge with the small bots throwing, pushing, and lifting each other for points. The team gave their mentors a shot at the bots with Mentor Matches and some special awards from the team. In the end Hampden D and Cape Elizabeth alliance went on to win! Big thank yous go out to our Judges, sponsor TLC Landscaping,  f our own Jacob B, the Black Bear Robotics, Karen from RIM, and our team volunteers for helping make this a great event!

The 2nd annual Battle of the Bay was bigger and better than ever! Some of the teams arrived Friday night, got some practice in, watched movies, talked robots, ate snacks and build a tote and can version of STRONGHOLD complete with flying team flags! Then teams camped out on the competition field! Saturday the lights came promptly at 6 to start a busy day of great competition, seeing the team enter quarter finals in first place, and after a tough semi and finals, finished as the second placed alliance. Our alliance included home team BOB and Ozram with a new cheesecaked canburgler! Big thank you to all of BOB's volunteers, who made the day go smoothly and provided lots of great food and snacks all day long! Looking forward to a 3rd year!

November 8th team members had another chance to earn money for their travel accounts, thanks to TLC (Tender Lawn Care) of Brewer for their help and equipment! The team cleaned up the leaves and received donations for their efforts, and TLC hauled them away! Great Job everyone!

Another year, another fantastic show put on by the Iron Tigers for the 2015 Robot Rodeo. Having attended the obstacle course and dance off for a second year, the team would gladly attend a third! Though we didn't win either competition, we still placed well and brought home the "Best Lil Dawgie" award, which was their equivalent to the gracious professionalism award.

As an extra challenge this year, the dance off also included a runway, which the robots had to travel down, and back, as well as costumes made for them. Below among other images, you can see Clawdia dressed up as Frankenstein.