FIVE Days until CINCI! And we are so excited! Between bagging up the tools and organizing the  e-lab there just seems like too much to do!  The highbay (or what I have lovingly dubbed the “hive”bay) is full of girls buzzing this way and that, fulfilling their tasks, and then going back to the list to get another… Read more

Congratulations to 3504 mentors George Kantor, Dr. Terry Richards, and Mr. Young for the honor of volunteers of the year! We are so proud of you and we thank you for all you do for our team. Also, congratulations to the GoS website team for putting together such an awesome website and winning the website… Read more

The Girls of Steel and Watson are geared and ready to go for the FIRST Pittsburgh Regional that starts this Thursday, March 8th. Playing Rebound Rumble, we can’t wait to compete, meet, and help out all the other awesome FIRST teams attending. This year their is an astounding 11 rookie teams competing and two of them… Read more

The Girls of Steel Robotics practice field has a new location in the Catalyst Building in Lawrenceville (corner of 41st and Foster St., http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.470804,-79.962739&num=1&t=h&z=18).  This weekend the practice field will be open from Noon to 4 on Saturday 3/3/12.  Please bring signed release forms ( Adult release | Minor release ) when you come to the practice field. Read more

Thank you to all teams and friends who attended the Girls of Steel (FIRST Team 3504)Week Zero Competition at the Ellis Armory Robotics Practice Field. It was terrific to see the Sewickley Academy Panthers (FIRST Team 2428), Gateway Quasics Robotics (FIRST Team 2656), 4H Incognito Robotics (FIRST Team 3962), Franklin Regional FRobotics (FIRST Team 4150), and the Central Vikings (FIRSTTeam 2641). We… Read more

The Girls of Steel will be hosting a Pittsburgh area Week Zero practice competition event this Saturday, from 11:00am to 3:00pm. This mini-competition will be officiated by Pittsburgh Regional referees and we’ll have awesome music! Collaboration between teams to finish our robots is highly encouraged and this is a fantastic opportunity for your drive team to… Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Girls of Steel will be hosting a Pittsburgh area Week Zero practice competition event. This mini-competition will be officiated by Pittsburgh Regional referees. Collaboration between teams to finish our robots is highly encouraged. We hope to see you there! What: Pittsburgh Week Zero practice competition Where: FIRST Team 3504 Girls of Steel Practice Field, The Ellis Armory,… Read more

We are halfway through the build season!  The Girls of Steel have successfully built two working chassis with a mecanum drive and six wheel drop center drive train.  Every team ranging from chassis to programming had to help out to make sure the robots worked efficiently. Luckily, we were able to bring our chassis to our practice… Read more