1902 Blog
CENTRAL FLORIDA ROBOTICS TEAM WINS TOP AWARD AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT
April 23, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For media inquires about 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics please contact: Elise Cronin-Hurley, explodingbacon.team1902@gmail.com Houston, TX - 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics, a pre-college robotics team located in Central Florida, won...
4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics Team 1902, FIRST Championship Chairman’s Finalist
After three days of competing with the top FIRST robotics teams in the world, 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics from Central Florida has been awarded the prestigious FIRST Championship Chairman’s Finalist award, becoming one of the top six teams in the world. The...
Robot-Mounted Camera
While it is easy to give a robot the sense of touch and a concept of distance, having robots that can see and process their surroundings would give us a huge advantage with the robots we build and compete with. Every match starts with an autonomous period, where...
STEM Careers, Soft Skills, and Exploding Bacon
STEM Careers, Soft Skills, and Exploding Bacon HRM America, July 17, 2014 -- Excerpt from article: STEM careers, technology, and the impact of education were addressed at the World Future Society's 2014 conference in Orlando, FL. At the welcome reception, we met with...
The Night I Met Dean Kamen
It was the night of Roboprom and it was raining, so Exploding Bacon was shuttling the students to Roboprom in a van. I was in the last group, and while waiting for the van to return, Dean Kamen walked by. He did not have time at the moment, but he soon returned, and...
OCLS Tech Talk, Bacon talks Strategy
Brendan Radabaugh, FRC Coach of Exploding Bacon 1902, talks about robot game strategy at the Orange County Library System's Melrose Center for Technology Tech Talk venue.
Exploding Bacon interviewed in The Fighting Pi Picast
2013 World Championships, Podcast Live at St. Louis: Part 1 In their 16th show, live from the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, The Fighting Pi interview our very own Sarah and Chandra, along with 1086 - Blue Cheese, 1329 - The RoboRebels, 2252 - The Mavericks, 3528 -...
Bacon at the Opening Day at the Melrose Center
Grand Opening video of The Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation and Creativity which shows Exploding Bacon demoing our 2012 and 2013 robots. Exploding Bacon also provided one of the Center's first Tech Talks on robot design on February 15th at the...
Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation & Creativity Grand Opening
Are you going to be in the Orlando area next Saturday, February 8th? If so, stop by the grand opening of the the Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation & Creativity at the Orange County Library System Downtown. There will be many interesting...
Florida’s first FRC FIRST Showcase Team
We are proud that our efforts have earned us the distinction of Florida first FRC FIRST Showcase Team for our "extensive and impressive list of outreach participation" for the 2012-13 Season FIRST organized outreach that included: PTC Conference, with student...
Orlando Regional Down, South Florida is Up!
The team is ready to head to Fort Lauderdale for the South Florida Regional next weekend for another awesome week of competition! We're excited to get back to work after an exciting performance at the Orlando Regional. It took a couple matches to get up and running,...
FIRST Robotics: Dreams
I often get asked, and even more frequently ask myself, why I spend sometimes upwards of 30 hours a week on robotics. I'm reminded why every time I go out to talk about FIRST, because each and every time, without fail, more and more people answer yes when I ask them...