OUR TEAM

We are team 1701, a.k.a The Robocubs, from University of Detroit Jesuit. We as a team, build a culture, within the school and throughout the city of Detroit, that encourages and celebrates science, technology, engineering, and math; that operates with integrity and Gracious Professionalism; and that strives to achieve justice in access to technology and knowledge.

FIRST Robotics is an international robotics league consisting of over 7,000 teams in our league, and over 30,000 total. The fundamentals of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is getting young students engaged and excited about engineering and the future. Each year, a new game is released with given tasks. Each team must design, build, and program their robot within 6 weeks before competing. FIRST gives over $80 million in scholarship funds each year, and it increases with FIRST’s ever-growing list of sponsors and providers. For more information, please visit http://usfirst.org.