“Class made me think about using LEGOs and everyday things in a new way and it helped expand my brain and imagination to try new things and make things work. It was amazing working with everyone and seeing all their creations. Thank you for teaching us and helping us learn, it was a lot of… Read more

It has been about a month since FIRST suspended the 2020 Infinite Recharge Season, and since then we have been busy! Just like FRC teams across the world, our competition season was affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Before the season suspension, we had planned to attend a Week 4 competition, the Greater Pittsburgh Regional (GPR).… Read more

To help team members to keep in contact during COVID-19, one of our mentors, Austin, set up a 24/7 Zoom chat room. After taking advantage of the chatroom late one night, a group of girls was inspired to plan a team bonding event where they took the literal definition of the Zoom room’s 24-hour capabilities… Read more

On March 26, 2020 Girls of Steel hosted a FIRST Ladies event: a Women in STEM Panel Webinar on Zoom. We originally wanted to hold this event in person at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic the event was postponed. We decided that we still wanted to hold the event, so… Read more

We were deeply saddened by the news that the 2019-2020 FIRST season had been suspended, but at our last Leadership Council meeting, conducted virtually on March 14, the conversation had an uplifting tone. Even though the suspension and social distancing measures connected to the COVID-19 outbreak meant big changes for our team and community, it… Read more

  Girls of Steel attended the Week 1 competition Miami Valley Regional, February 27-29, 2020,  in Dayton, Ohio, and it was a huge success for the team! All of the girls had an amazing time throughout the weekend! And although we did not make it through alliance selection or receive awards, the team was able… Read more

On February 15th, 2020, Girls of Steel hosted eight other FRC teams at our annual Week Zero Scrimmage. This year it was held at our new practice facility at CMU on Penn Avenue near Bakery Square.  This was our 9th year running a Week Zero event!   The day started at 10:00 AM, with teams… Read more

Our last official week of build season was incredibly busy, with amazing progress being made on every aspect of the robot. Though we did not completely finish the robot, we still have few intense meetings left to fix and finalize our bots, Europa and Callisto. The end of week 6 concluded with our Week Zero… Read more

Week five of build season started off and ended strong, and our whole team is getting more and more excited as we get to see serious progress made on our robots and attachments! We decided on the names for our competition and practice robots. Our final decision was to name our competition robot Europa, and… Read more

Coming out of week three, there was a lot of work to be done, and throughout week four, the team was able to handle it well! Stress management came into play and everyone was able to keep a level head and accomplish a lot. We are working towards having a complete first robot soon, and… Read more