Congratulations to the Wellesley High School FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team Ultraviolet (FRC8567) for finishing second this past weekend at the New England District Event at Western New England University in Springfield, Mass.

Team Ultraviolet also won the Imagery Award, which celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance.

Team Ultraviolet students (courtesy photo)

Students, parents and mentors — Team Ultraviolet students, parents and mentors

Additional congratulations to Co-Captain Stephanie Xia, who was selected as a District Championship Dean’s List Semi-Finalist and will go on to compete at the
District Championship. This award recognizes outstanding 10th and 11th grade students for their leadership and commitment to FIRST’s core values.

Now on to this weekend’s event at the University of New Hampshire at Durham. The public is welcome to attend or watch by live stream.

FRC is a high-school-level robotics competition where teams of students design, build, and program industrial-sized robots to compete in complex, themed challenges.
Combining engineering, coding, and teamwork, FRC emphasizes hands-on STEM learning, innovation, and collaboration through a competitive yet inspiring global
community. Team Ultraviolet has also founded and mentored FIRST Lego League teams at Wellesley Middle School.

If you are interested in learning more or to join the WHS or WMS team, please email Wellesleyfrc@gmail.com or visit the team website. Rising 4th-6th graders can
join the robotics fun by registering for summer Space Rover Robotics Workshops run by Team Ultraviolet at Wellesley Recreation, activity #324914. Proceeds go to funding the WHS robotics team.

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