About

Our history

Our non-profit was founded in May 2017. Its first goal was our participation in the First Global Challenge 2017 in Washington D.C.

First contest

After three months spent building, training and communicating, we finally met the 156 attending countries. Unfortunately, bad alliances and poor robot efficiency led us to a disappointing ranking. Nevertheless, our well documented blog made us come back with the silver medal of the Sofia Kovalevskaya award.

2017-2018 season

We participated in two competitions : - The trophées de robotique - First the regional contest. We ranked second and thus were qualified for the national level. - Then the national contest, during two days in Saint-Quentin. We ended 20th out of 62 teams. - The 18th World Adolescent Robot Contest in the FGC category.

This contest took place in Guyiang, China. Thirty teams were attending : 15 chinese teams and 15 international ones.

We won two awards: - The international unity award for the help we provided to other teams and our involvement in communication. - The winning alliance award because we won this championship.

2018-2019 season

Our non-profit evolves. We have new team members to participate in contest and, moreover, we begin an education component by animating a weekly robotic worshop for children in the social center Condorcet.

This season, we plan to participate in the trophées de robotique once again and Astro-Pi.

2019-2020 season

Of course a very disturbed season. Our weekly robotic worshop for children in the social center Condorcet went on until lockdown. We also manage to run two micro-bits workshops in the library. About the robotics contest, after being involved in the trophées then in the coupe de France they were both cancelled/re-scheduled.

Our team

Franck

President, Coach

François

Treasurer, Coach

Katia

Secretary

Mathis

Challenges, robotic workshop

Matthieu

Challenges, Communication

Mohamed

Challenges, Communication

They support us

Since October 2017, the GIGA supports us. We presented them our organization in their general assembly and have had a great financial support from them for our travels ans purchase of equipment.

During the 2018-2019 season , la Papavoine carpentry helped us build most of the game elements for our table.

Since november 2018, the Groupement Interprofessionnel de la Région de Vernon trusts us and allowed us to meet new partners. We were able to present our non-profit during both their trade show and their general assembly in december. They also helped to buy us a 3D printer in february 2019.

Ariane Group Vernon helped to buy us a 3D printer in february 2019.

At the beginning of the 2017-2018 season, the city hall of Gaillon granted us a small subsidy. Since april 2019, it lends us a wide venue to host our activities.

SKF Vernon helped to buy us a 3D printer in february 2019.

Helps us since april 2019. They already gave us 2 Raspberry Pi 3B+

Our workshop

We have premises offered by the city of Gaillon to host our activities. There are located in proximity to the "Douaires recreation center". To learn more, read our blog article at on this topic.