Our Mission Statement:

To unite teams, communities, and countries through cooperative efforts in problem solving; to build character while proving that hard work can be fun; and to promote innovative thinking in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Team Story:

The US FIRST Team 1208 (The Metool Brigade), O'Fallon Township High School's Robotics Team, works year round preparing for our annual Regional competitions. In 2010, the team competed in the St. Louis and Kansas City Regional competitions as well as the Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.

The whole team is student run, but we are directed and sponsored by Mr. Eric Curry, our eternally diligent and magnanimous leader. Our club officers, 40 of them, must be enrolled in Honors Physics 2 with Mr. Curry to hold a position. Students select jobs at the beginning of the season and gain experience in those positions. We have 4 departments in our leadership: Electrical, Mechanical, Programming and Administrative. These divisions collaborate to build the robot and to get us to the competitions.

We started competing in FRC in 2003 after Mr. McCammack, our former electronics instructor, founded our team and since then our team has gained confidence and a good bit of experience. Along with Mr. Curry, we also receive a good deal of support from our mentors.

Air Force employee, David Gitz, contributes in large part to all the progress we make in the programming and electrical department. With experience on three previous robotics teams over the past nine years, David has a vast knowledge on possible improvements and on techniques which tend to work better. He is constantly helping in order to improve the efficiency of our bot and to show the programming team what they don't already know.

O'Fallon is a wonderful city thriving inside the St. Louis metro area. Through our performance in Robotics, we hope to bring greater public interest in the Robotics program and encourage our succeeding teams to further our success!