Golf Outing Signups Now! Click Here To Sign Up!

Welcome!

Team 75, the RoboRaiders, are Hillsborough High School's FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team from Hillsborough, New Jersey. Built of a diverse group of students and mentors. Team 75 works to take part in annual FRC competition. Team 75 is the oldest active FIRST team in New Jersey, and since its inception in 1996, has won a variety of awards, including regional championships and the prestigious Chairman's Award. During the off-season, Team 75 participates in a variety of community service efforts, including demonstrations, and food drives, car washes, bake sales and more to help benefit the local community. Here is our Credo, a list of policies defining how Team 75 is run.

Since 1996, Team 75 have been extremely committed to the mission of FIRST, and goes to great lengths to spread awareness of science and technology within the community. Team 75 is dedicated to developing a sustainable, year-round FIRST team that brings together a diverse body of students, parents, and mentors for a fun and inspirational learning experience in engineering and teamwork.

Somerville Street Fair and World Science Festival

On June 11th, our team attended two great events that allowed us to educate our community about FIRST and our team! First, we attended the Somerville Street Fair. At the Fair, we were set up near the corner of W. Main and Bridge Street. We had an area set up for the purpose of educating our community about our team, our WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) initiative, and FIRST. Our booth was very successful and our Slime attracted dozens of people. We also attended the World Science Festival, an annual celebration of science that brings together science, business, art, and government. During the fair, we had several students educating others about FIRST and the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields! This event was also very successful!

What FIRST people do on Memorial Day

Going to a robotics competition isn't exactly what normal people do on Memorial Day, but then again, the average person doesn't work with hundreds of engineers to build, design, construct a robot! Throughout the day, the team worked diligently to balence two events! During the morning,we participated in Hillsborough's Memorial Day parade, where we had a promotional table educating our community about our team and FIRST. Simultaneously, we also had several members at BR^2, an offseason competition held by Team 303! Thank you, team 303, for hosting this wonderful event! We again worked on training drivers, who seemed to really enjoy the competition. This competition had slightly different rules - for determination of alliances, the top 4 teams were made alliance captains, they picked the teams, and then the competition went straight into the semifinals. We tried our best, and got picked by 714 and 1923. Thanks for picking us, guys! Our alliance eventually made it to 2^nd place! We all had a great time!

Monty Madness

Congratulations, 1403! You guys have really outdone yourselves with this year's Monty Madness. Everyone on our team who attended throughoutly enjoyed the event. For this competition, we worked on training our drivers. We'd like to thank 103 and 341 for graciously inviting us to their alliance! Working together, teams 75, 103, and 341 were a force to be reckoned with. We steamrolled all the way to the finals, and won second place! (I just noticed that 75+103+341 = 519 = 3*173. Darn it, almost prime!) We can't wait until next year's Monty Madness!

A Wonderful Day for Golf

Good golf demands a very specific kind of weather - not too warm, not too cold, not too windy, not too wet - and the weather during this year's Golf Outing was just that kind of weather. (In other words, FANTASTIC. It was a great day, on a fantastic field, with a lot of wonderful people. We'd like to thank to thank everyone that made this fantastic day possible: the planning committee, consisting of Theresa Edwards, Alan Kimmelman, Mike Abramovitz, and John Boyea; the parent volunteers for the event: Debbie Simpson, Suzanne DeMaio, Laura Sparrow Hood, Robin Kimmelman, Joe Sagliocco, Patty Proske, and Emily Verastegui; Johnson Johnson for their continued support of the team; the students who brought golfers to the event; and all the golfers that were there to enjoy it! We definitely hope to make next year bigger and better!

FIRST Championships!!!

Every year, we look forward to the FIRST Championships in Atlanta, and this year more than lived up to our expectations. This was the culmination of the FIRST season, with the whole team trying it's hardest. Our robot fought valiantly, guided by the expert hands of our drive team. The pit crew fixed, the team cheered, the drivers drove, and the robot moved, changing up the competition in every match, in a constant cycle. This year, we were had several RoboRaiders touring VIPs around the venue, educating them about FIRST. We played our games as a defensive robot. Unfortunately, we didn't get picked for an alliance. On Saturday we went to the FIRST Social at the Georgia Aquarium and spent time with teams from all over the world. We definitely had a great time! On the last day of the competition we went to relax at the FIRST Finale Festival and loved it! The FIRST Championships were, once again, a fantastic experience for all.