Qualification Match 78 from Waterloo vs 2056

Latest News!

  • Check out the Year End Celebration page, we took an evening to reflect on the season and thank our sponsors, mentors and parents!
  • ​We've uploaded a bunch of Photos from the Regionals, check them out here: North Bay, Waterloo, Windsor
  • Check out Rick Mercer at a First competition! 
  • Check out our new Scholarships page! Graduating team members should check it out ASAP, some deadlines are mid February.
  • ​​Sponsorship Update: We have been very blessed this season to get some new sponsors on board. A big welcome goes out to our new Gold Level Sponsors - Elmira Pet Products and Google! Along with _our founding sponsor Systematix and faithful Rockwell Automation, these new sponsors will allow us to attend a third Regional competition this year. Check out all our sponsors here!
  • We continue to be blown away by the support of our community and the partners that have stepped up to join us this season. Our Silver level sponsors now include: Communitech, Union Gas, Toyota Boshoku Canada, ATS Automation, Sittler Grinding, and MAC LLP.
  • Some of the team was able to spend some time at one of our feeder schools (Park Manor) and teach some future Lancers about robotics and pneumatics. Have a look here!
  • We've had a busy fall getting out and spreading the 4917 love to our community. In September we joined a few other local teams sharing our passion for Robotics at the K-W Maker Fair. In November we helped the Kiwanis with their annual food drive! In December we loaded Big Green up with candy and handed it out to kids during the Elmira Santa Claus Parade - getting the word out and engaging kids and families with Robotics in action. 
  • Awesome night sharing the FIRST vision and expanding our support base with some great industry partners. Huge thanks to SYSTEMATIX for hosting and ongoing leadership in your support for 4917. Good to meet up with old friends and make some new ones.
  • Big Win for Big Green at the Fall Fiesta ! We finished as the top Jr. robot and took home our first banner! We're getting back in the swing of things and showing some new team members how we roll!
  • All our matches from this year are now up on WatchFirstNow - just enter our team number 4917 in the search box and relive some of those exciting moments - Click Here
  • Huge thanks to our Sponsors and Mentors
  • See what Morgan Freeman has to say about First Robotic