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by 8033 Team Member Oren Grochowski Build Season Week 5! Our 2026 robot is almost fully assembled, with all our hardware groups working long days to meet their deadline this week. Our software team is making great progress using our Alpha Bot while they wait for the competition bot. This week the mechanical team will pass along the competition bot for software to “Bring Up” which means essentially to turn it on, but for us it is like the bot taking its first breath!    Our fi

Registration is now open for 2 different STEAM summer camps: FIRST Lego League Champs Academy (Rising 5th-7th graders) Sign up for a new summer camp for experienced FIRST Lego League–Challenge (FLL-C) kids! Highlander Robotics software team members will teach advanced robotics concepts including the engineering method, mechanism design, path following with sensors and gyros, and debugging. We will be teaching in Spike Prime. All campers should have at least one season of FLL-

Save the Date! 12th Annual Piedmont School Maker Faire is Sunday, May 17th from 11am–3pm on the PHS campus. For twelve years, the Piedmont School Maker Faire has been the place where builders, tinkerers, artists, and inventors show the community what they've been working on. This year, we want to see your  project. Our " Call for Makers " is officially open. Students, parents, educators, hobbyists - if you've made (or want to make!) something cool, weird, beautiful, or just