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2026 Competition Season Summary

What a Great 2026 season! We took part in competitions all across Indiana, finishing 23rd in the state with 120 district points and a 35-29-0 record during official season events. During these challenging competitions, we earned 2nd place at the Washington event. In Columbus, Sierra C was named District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist! We’re very proud of her! Despite the challenges, we made the playoffs at every event and finished the official season as the Read more

By Utkarsh Gupta, ago

2025 Competition Season Summary

What an incredible 2025 season! We competed across Indiana, finishing 14th in the state with 166 district points and a 25-20 record. Along the way, we earned the Team Sustainability Award at Kokomo and the Engineering Inspiration Award at Washington, where Elliott B was also named a Dean’s List Semi-Finalist! We’re very proud of him! We made the playoffs at every event and finished the official season as the 6th alliance captain at the Indiana Read more

By Neil Brenneman, ago

Diving Into Kickoff

We are back and locked in for Kickoff where we spent the day brainstorming and studying the new game! CyberBlue is ecstatic to dive into our new adventure with this year’s game, Reefscape. The theme for this year has sparked our minds with ideas on how to build our robot to work with coral and algae.

By Kathy, ago

FIN District Washington Event WIN!

WOW! What a great weekend for Cyber Blue! After some intensive work following last weekend’s Plainfield Event to improve features on our robot, we were ready for big things. The team headed to Washington High School early Friday morning for a long day of competition. We stood at 3rd place of the 26 teams the first day. At alliance selection, we held 5th seed. Based on the data gleaned by the scouting team, we joined Read more

By Administrator, ago

2024 CRESCENDO℠ Week 3

We are getting into the kick of things this week, like the accidental spill of a paint can. This week at Cyber Blue has been productive. Our devoted programming team was met with some challenges with their code. However, our programmers were able to overcome this hurdle by replacing an incorrect variable with the correct one, and with this, our teams were met with joy. Our manufacturing and assembly teams have been continuing to work Read more

By Kathy, ago

2024 CRESCENDO℠ Post Kickoff Update

Since kickoff on the 6th, we have been very busy here at the Cyber Blue labs, Our manufacturing and assembly teams have been working on multiple high-level prototypes for this year’s game. Our coding and wiring teams have also been busy adapting “path planner” to work with our current programs, as well as working on our visibility capabilities to better assist our robot in its search for notes this season. Last but certainly not least Read more

By Neil Brenneman, ago

Upcoming Events

Hey all! We are excited to share with you some information regarding our upcoming events! On August 22, we will be hosting an open house for students and parents interested in joining robotics. We will be presenting what Cyber Blue is all about, and answering any questions from both students and parents. On August 28, we will be hosting a student night so that students interested in joining the team can find out how our Read more

By Neil Brenneman, ago

After the Season. . .

Now that the season is over we are preparing activities for Girls Inc, as well as making some adjustments to the robot for IRI which is being held at Lafayette Jefferson High School this year. For more information visit IRI’s website, http://www.indianaroboticsinvitational.org. We will soon be having the Middle School FTC team over to the workshop so they can see what is in store for their future in robotics. We will also be inviting them Read more

By Duane Corwin-Maxwell, ago

Indiana State Championship

Cyber Blue 234 qualified for the state championship ranking #15 in the state. The championship was held at Anderson University’s Kardatzke’s Wellness Center April 7 and 8. The competition was outstanding, we ended the qualification round with a 6-8-0 record. We were a third pick for Alliance 6 Captain 71, Team Hammond. Through some unfortunate circumstances, our alliance captain was unable to compete in our first playoff round and an alternate was brought in for Read more

By Shana, ago