About the Cyber Eagles
We are the Cyber Eagles 10544, an FTC team from Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada! Formed in 2015 by a group of students graduating from FIRST's Lego League, the team was eager to learn more about science and robots. Currently in our fourth season, the team has experienced so much, especially during our competitions. The team has competed three times at the provincial championships, as well as the 2017 and 2018 FIRST World Championships in Houston, Texas. At these competitions, we have won several awards, including the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award in our rookie season and at this year’s British Columbia Championships. We've also won the Motivate Award in 2017. We captained the last two winning alliances in our provincial competitions in January 2017 and 2018.
What is FIRST?
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is a worldwide organization that operates a number of programs in which youth are given the opportunities to design, build, program, and compete in all things robots. In 1989, Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers founded the institution purposed to develop ways in which students would be inspired in engineering and technology fields. Two very important philosophies outlined by FIRST are coopertition and gracious professionalism. Coopertition is a portmanteau of "cooperative competition. The term emphasizes the presence of simultaneous cooperation and competition among teams or individuals, especially during tournaments. Gracious professionalism is a term coined by FIRST as "a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community." Within the concept, "fierce competition and mutual gain are not separate notions."
What is FTC?
FIRST Tech Challenge is a mid-level robotics competition for students in grades 7–12. Teams compete head to head in an annual game-play that tasks them to create a robot in order to compete in an alliance format against other teams in a multitude of competition opportunities. Robots are created from materials from a kit that is reusable from year-to-year as well as any outside resources required. They are programmed using Java or the MIT App Inventor. In addition, teams, along with the aid of coaches, mentors, and other volunteers, must develop strategy and build their robots based on well-founded engineering concepts. During competitions, awards are given for their robot's performance as well as for community outreach, design, and other real-word achievements.