Our efforts to spread the FIRST message have travelled around the world. Through Missfits Mission Home, our international pilot program, members visiting countries around the world present the message of FIRST through our custom presentation in that country’s native language. Missfits Mission Home was launched in the summer of 2018, when one of our members flew to Japan to present to middle and high school students about FIRST. There, the founder of MeetsVision, an institution that advocates the spread of hands-on STEM-based learning, saw our demo and invited us to present the same week in front of top high school students and tech companies around Japan during one of their workshops. Japan currently only has 3 FRC teams, and we aim to increase this number while continuing to branch out to the rest of the world. We plan to continue our efforts of spreading the FIRST message around the globe.
Date: TBD
Location:
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
(2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Date: TBD
Location:
Event Center @ SJSU
(270 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA)
Date: March 15 to March 17
Location:
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
(2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Date: March 29 to March 31
Location:
Event Center @ SJSU
(270 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA)
Date: April 18 to April 20
Location:
George R. Brown Convention Center
(1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX)
Date: October 4 to October 6
Location:
Woodside High School
(199 Churchill Avenue, Woodside, CA)
Date: March 4
Location:
Francis Scott Key Elementary School
(1530 43rd Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Date: March 16 to March 18
Location:
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
(2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Date: March 29 to April 31
Location:
Event Center @ SJSU
(270 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA)
Date: April 21
Location:
SF County Fair Building
(1199 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Description:
Join us on Saturday at the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park for a fun-filled day! We will demo our
robot Athena and offer kids' activities. Come meet our team and learn more about FIRST, joining our team or
starting a robotics team.
Date: April 22
Location:
InterContinental San Francisco
(888 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA)
Description:
MIT Club's K12 STEM outreach event will feature 20 of the most interactive technologies of intelligent
machines for the youngest generation—the upcoming game-changers of the AI field. The club will open up the
halls to under-privileged kids in the Bay Area who ordinarily do not have access to these sorts of events. We
will showcase our robot for a hands-on, interactive, and an exploratory demonstration.
Date: May 18 to May 21
Location:
San Mateo County Event Center
(1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, CA)
Date: October 5 to October 6
Location:
Woodside High School
(199 Churchill Avenue, Woodside, CA)
Date: March 17 to March 19
Location:
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
(2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA)
Date: March 30 to April 1
Location:
Event Center @ SJSU
(270 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA)
Date: April 20 to April 22
Location:
George R. Brown Convention Center
(1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX)
Date: September 10
Location:
Irving Street (9th-10th Avenue)
Description:
Join us for Inner Sunset Sunday's Flea Market, "Lets Play!" 10am-4pm on Irving St between 9th-10th Avenues.
We will demo the robot and offer children's activities!
Date: September 16 to September 17
Location:
Bellarmine College Preparatory
(960 W Hedding Street, San Jose, CA)
6/10/2017
San Francisco’s first all-girls robotics team, led by a Lowell senior, met teams from as far as China and Mexico
in the world championships in Houston, Texas in April.
"It’s not everyday that you get to see people from around the world and come together to compete with amazing
innovations," said senior Anya Jensen, this year’s leader of The Missfits, the only robotics team from San
Francisco to qualify for the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics
championship...
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4/7/2017
Move over fellas, some young women in San Francisco are making waves in a field dominated by men — robotics.
They haven't been at it long, but they're already being noticed.
For the last several weeks, a team of engineers, coders and builders has been assembling Robot 6418. They are
the Missfits, an all-girl team from five high schools across San Francisco. They had a strong performance at a
critical Silicon Valley robotics competition earlier this month...
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2/5/2017
The team gathered around the field as all the eyes in the room followed the movement of the 90-inch autonomous robot. It had retrieved the boulders, breached through opponent’s defenses and now arrived in front of the 7 ft tower. Everyone held their breath as the robot angled its best shot toward the castle. Behind the shields of the drive station, senior Anya Jensen was immersed in maneuvering the controls and speedily analyzing the team’s strategies. As the boulder flew through the target window, the light strips illuminating the castle immediately darkened, signalling the team’s victory... Continue reading
1/7/2017
Four students recently began a six-week journey to prepare for and take part in the San Francisco Regional
Robotics Competition, as part of a citywide girls-only team.
"Some of our students have joined an all-girls team in San Francisco," robotics advisor Chris Person-Rennell
said. "Convent does not have its own team, mostly because there is a huge financial obligation of about 15 to
20 thousand dollars."...
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