Inspire.

Nichols School Robotics:

Electric Mayhem 4930

Nichols School is honored to be the home of FRC Team 4930: Electric Mayhem. We have been proudly generating mayhem ever since 2014, and we have created multiple new FRC teams in our area, along with other teams in FIRST. By allowing our students to gain sports credit for joining the team, we produce hardworking, dedicated students who strive to become engineers and technicians.

This year's robot...

Kermit!

Innovate.

About

What is FIRST?

FIRST is a worldwide organization, inspiring kids to pursue their dreams and learn through hands on challenges in robotics and science. Our team Electric Mayhem 4930 is proud to have been participating in FIRST Robotics Competition since 2013. Along with FRC, our school participates in FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge.

Who are we?

Electric Mayhem - FRC Team 4930

Our original FRC team, which started in 2014, has grown tremendously and led to the creation of many more teams in all areas of FIRST. The team, which was initially started by a small group of ambitious students, has grown to reach and influence multiple deteremined students across Nichols High School, and continues to expand each year. Our school offers sports credit for the team members, allowing them to focus and put in their best effort on all our fantastic robots.


Electric Mayhem - FTC Team 12736 and 12737

The newest edition to the Nichols School, Electric Mayhem family, our FTC team. This team is made up of the students of the engineering class, a senior/junior elective, in our school. By having a class become a robotics team, it not only teaches students engineering skills, it gives them a real experience of engineering work environment.


Electric Mayhem - FLL Team

The FLL Team is made up of students in Nichols Middle School. Like the Upper School, this team is made up of hardworking students, who are eager to learn and use robots. Despite being younger, our students put just as much effort into their work as any of our other teams. The students from this team generally go on to join our FRC Team or our FTC Team, or even both!

Why do we participate?

We participate because our school has an overwhelming number of students who love building, working with, and competing with robots. FIRST allows our students to gain real world knowledge, outside of the classroom. Students overcome challenges and problems they never thought they would be dealing with in High School, and prepares them for future jobs.

Impact.

Events

First PowerUp Events

Finger Lakes Regional

March 14 - 17, 2018
R.I.T. Gordon Field House and Activities Center


Pittsburg Regional

March 21 - 24, 2018
Penn State Greater Allegheny Frable Building

Game Description

FIRST Power Up --- 2017's FIRST competition has our team battling in an arcade arena. This year we have to build a robot to place cubes on to the field's switches and scale in order to earn points for alliance. Along with this, we can use the cubes to gain power ups for team to boost our scores. Finnally, by the end of the match, our robot has to grab on to a 1 foot rod and climb up a tower, and help other robots accomplish this task as well.

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This is our robot, Animal, built for 2016’s FIRST STEAMworks! Animal is able collect and release fuel, score gears, and climb in x seconds. Aside from serving us well during competition season, our robot to place third in FRC Top 25’s Release Night, where we competed with teams from all over the world. Our bot’s electrical board is also award winning. It placed first in AndyMark’s Awesome Wiring Contest and its unique design, coupled with our programming team’s efforts, allowed us to take home Innovation in Control at the Finger Lakes’ Regional.

Our goal across all our FIRST Teams is to help make our students and community better and inspired to do great things. Together, with the support of our school and mentors, we work everyday to achieve this goal.

Here's an example of our teams hardwork and perserverence pay off. The following video is of one of your matches from FIRST's STEAMPower Challenge from 2016, where our robot, Zoot, competed in the Finger Lakes Regional.

Contact Us

Our team has helped form numerous teams in our area, if you would like to reach out to learn more about us, or need help or advice starting a new team, feel free to contact our team leaders Phillip Coburn and Larry Hiller.

1250 Amherst St, Buffalo, NY 14216

Philip Coburn Phone#: 716-332-6300 x511
Phillip Coburn: pcoburn@nicholsschool.org

Larry Hiller: lhiller@nicholsschool.org

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