We are the Manchester Machine Makers, the robotics 4-H club & FIRST Tech Challenge team from Manchester, Vermont.
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You can learn more about our team, check out our robots, or contact us.
Congratulations to the Team!
In the News!
- Teen robotics competition coming Saturday – Manchester Journal, Bennington Banner
- Manchester robotics team captures Think Award – Manchester Journal
Latest from the Blog
New Members Welcome!
The Manchester Machine Makers, a First Tech Challenge Robotics Team, are recruiting team members for the 2022-2023 season. We are open to students grade 7-12 in Bennington County. Our current team members hail from from Burr and Burton Academy, Long Trail School, and Maple Street School. We meet twice a week: Wednesdays from 5:00-7:00pm and … Continue reading New Members Welcome!
Programming our Navigation Bot
We built it, now we need to make it go, right? Our Navigation platform (how about “navbot” for now, at least until we name it properly – eh, Team?) consists of the goBilda mecanum “strafer chassis” with two REV distance sensors. We will add another two distance sensors before we are done, and a USB … Continue reading Programming our Navigation Bot
Congratulations to our Graduates!
It’s been a great year, and we’ve been truly lucky to have such a great team. So it’s with an equal measure of dismay and pride that we send off our three Seniors into their next adventures: Charlotte, founding member, hardware specialist, public relations lead, and project manager (and by night, more of the same!); … Continue reading Congratulations to our Graduates!
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