Sharon Youth Robotics Association

What is SYRA?

SYRA = Sharon Youth Robotics Association

We are a community organization in Sharon Massachusetts, dedicated to the support of FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) competition among our youth.  Our teams compete as Sharon Eagle Robotics.  All of our teams meet together every week during the FLL competition season.

The release of the 2008 Climate Connections challenge will be Friday, September 5th, 2007. Our regular meeting schedule is from 6:00 - 7:30PM on Tuesdays at the Sharon Girl Scout House (subject to change this season).  Our first meeting will be organizational, focusing on team formation and training.  Our subsequent meetings will be oriented to the released challenge.

A typical season for an SYRA FLL team starts with our organizational meeting at the end of the summer.  Eligible Sharon students are ages 9-14, grades 4-8.  New members are oriented, and teams are organized, mainly through self-selection.  Subsequent weekly SYRA meetings (throughout the season) are focused training (early meeting), mentoring, and as time goes on, internal competitions.  The weekly SYRA meetings supplement what would be expected to be at least weekly meetings for the individual teams, as they work toward the design and programming of their own robots to meet the FLL challenge.  Mentoring and training is always available, both for the team members and the coaches, from our experienced members (who have graduated to the next level of competition, the FIRST Tech Challenge).

As the time for tournaments approaches (late November for the Blackstone Regional, December for the Eastern MA and Central MA state tournaments), internal competition will decide which teams represent the SYRA (usually two or three). 

We also participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge.  We have had three high school age teams participating, the Sharon Eagle Unlimited (FTC 001), the Sharon AngelBots (FTC 120), and the Sharon Myotonics (FTC 512).  But . . . there is no reason that number can't increase!  Sharon students of high school age are welcome at our organizational meeting to set up new FTC teams, as well!

If you are interested in robotics and competition, you are welcome to attend our meetings, when they resume in the Fall of 2007. The more, the merrier!

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