Pioneer Robotics

We had a great time hosting scouts from various troops for Pioneer Robotics Patch Day, where they earned their patches through a fun day of hands-on robotics. We appreciate the opportunity to share our passion for STEM with such eager and curious minds. @SJShrewsbury

We brought home the Connect Award at the MA Canton Qualifier! Shout out to the Canton Robodogs for hosting a well-run qualifier. We could not do this without the continued support of our sponsors: @coghlin_cos, @Rubiks_Official, @MathWorks, and Monti’s Pizza Plus @SJShrewsbury

The Trailblazing Pioneers and Powered Pioneers competed at the Massachusetts States Championship at WPI! After a hard fought day of matches, they finished with 225 and 270 points as well as quality judging sessions. We are very proud of these teams! @SJShrewsbury

A huge congratulations to our two FLL teams for an incredible showing at the Northborough Qualifier as both teams advanced to the MA FLL State Championship! Shout out to Inverse Polarity for hosting a fun and memorable event and Monti’s Pizza for keeping us running. @SJShrewsbury

The Trailblazing Pioneers and Powered Pioneers are working hard to fine-tune their robots and polish their presentations for their upcoming qualifier. A huge thank you to Monti’s Pizza for their delicious pizza! Your support means the world to us. @SJShrewsbury

This weekend we hosted a Building and Programming workshop at our Kelley Makerspace! Hosting four different teams, we gave a presentation on building and programming principles that we implement on our own robot! @SJShrewsbury

Robots, teamwork, and innovation! Our middle school and high school robotics teams brought FIRST robotics to life at the Saint John’s Open House, showcasing the power of STEM and collaboration! @SJShrewsbury

Our middle school FLL teams, the Trailblazing Pioneers and Powered Pioneers, took on their first scrimmage! It was an exciting start to their season and both teams demonstrated great perseverance and teamwork. Let's go, Pioneers! @SJShrewsbury

Our middle school FLL teams are getting ready for their first scrimmage tomorrow! The Powered Pioneers and the Trailblazing Pioneers are prepared to showcase their progress in diving into this year’s challenge, SUBMERGED!

This past Saturday, we attended RoboBoston, a statewide robotics festival comprised of both robotics teams and companies. Here, we displayed our team to these groups and the general public. We are thankful for the opportunity to participate in this event!

We just completed our annual Robotics Summer Camp! We are very proud of our students who took on various engineering challenges and built robots with custom parts for a final robot competition. We couldn't be more excited for more robot action next year! 🤖 @SJShrewsbury

Teams completed challenges involving autonomous programming and projectile launchers for points to purchase advantages in their final robot game. We couldn't be more excited for our final 6 teams to compete in one final robot competition! Let the best team win!🤖@SJShrewsbury

After perfecting autonomous programs and developing claws for their robots, our campers' next challenge was to build custom ball launchers to knock down structures for our final robot game! We couldn't be more excited for our final robot matches later in the week! @SJShrewsbury

Week 1✅ Students are nearly done with their robots, attaching arms and color sensors. Spaghetti towers were also built, with the winning tower almost reaching 4 feet tall! Lastly, students started to create autonomous programs. We are excited for next week! @SJShrewsbury

The fourth day of our summer camp is complete! The obstacle course challenge happened today, with the highest score being 33 points! With their robots closer to completion, students started to program their robots. Week 1 is almost complete! @SJShrewsbury

We completed the third day of our robotics summer camp! The catapult competition went well, with the winning team launching a ball 37 feet! Students also practiced the obstacle course and continued building their robots. We are looking forward to what they do next! @SJShrewsbury

We finished our second day of our robotics summer camp! Students completed their catapults, started building robots, and CADed nameplates for their families. We're excited for the catapult competition tomorrow! @SJShrewsbury

We are thrilled to finish the first day of the robotics summer camp with over 20 students! The students started to build their own catapults, learned the basics of robot-oriented programming, and had an introduction to CAD. We can't wait for what comes next! @SJShrewsbury

Pioneer Robotics competed at the New England Invitational! A warm thank you to our alliance partners for fighting with us and becoming the Finalist Alliance! We were also honored to win the Connect Award! We are grateful to be apart of the MA FTC community! @SJShrewsbury @SJHS_HM

We gave it our all at the State Championship yesterday and won the Connect Award for our efforts in building relationships with local STEM professionals and building community connections. We are grateful to be apart of the MA FTC community! @SJHS_HM @SJShrewsbury