CHESTERFIELD — Squads worldwide held kickoffs last Saturday to launch the 2019 FIRST FRC Robotics Competition Season. Nearly 100,000 high school students on 3,790 teams — along with mentors and volunteers consisting of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) professionals, educators and parents — anxiously tuned in to watch the unveiling of the 2019 space-themed challenge televised live from Manchester, NH.
The robotics team at Lloyd C. Bird High School, RoboHawks #346, hosted a kickoff. Accompanied by their mentor, Dr. Bruce “Doc” Davies, CEO and Director of Chesterfield County’s MakerSpace, two other local teams attended who assemble their robots at the Chesterfield Career & Technical Center on Hull Street: Resurgence #1080 and Convergence #7429.
According to Davies, Resurgence is made up mostly of home-schooled kids and are based at Flexicell Inc. in…