About Us

We are XLR8 FRC Team 7128

XLR8 is a FIRST Robotics Competition Team based at KIOSC in Wantirna South, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.

Who Are We​

We are a LGBTIQA+ friendly FRC community team, whose members come from a wide range of educational backgrounds including public, private, and home schooled students. Team members largely come from eastern Melbourne metropolitan and regional areas. We accept high school aged team members (i.e 14-18) from all over Victoria.

Mission​

To enable a diverse range of young people (14-18 year olds) to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition.





What We Do

Problem analysis
Robot design and prototyping​
Robot programming
CAD (computer aided design)
Robot manufacture​
Teamwork
Media and fundraising

About Our Team

The FRC build season is from January to mid-March. The days and times of workshop sessions during build season vary depending on the stage of the build season and team member/mentor availability. During the off-season (March to December) the team meets regularly for workshop sessions.

The team members come from a wide range of educational backgrounds including public, private and home-schooled team members. Our team members largely come from eastern Melbourne metropolitan and regional areas. We accept high school aged team members (i.e., 12-18) from all over Victoria.  7128 is a gender diverse LGBTIQA+ friendly team.

The team’s management and finances are overseen by an incorporated committee “Melbourne XLR8 Robotics Club Inc” (A0118539G). Committee members consist of XLR8 Mentors and Alumni. Should the team be wound-up our assets will be distributed to the Victorian FRC community.

7128 competes at the Sydney Southern Cross Regional (mid-March) and at the Melbourne Robotics Tournament (MRT) in early July. FRC events run over 3 days (Fri/Sat/Sun).

Our team Handbook, Risk Management and Child Protection Policies are available on request.

XLR8 Team history

XLR8’s Rookie year was 2018. The team was started by Swinburne University of Technology staff and based at their Hawthorn campus. That year we were awarded the Rookie Inspiration Award at South Pacific Regionals (2018).  We were also part of the winning Regional alliance and qualified to go to the World Championships in Houston.  Eleven team members and their families traveled to compete in Houston.

The team built a second robot for the off season Duel Down Under (DDU) competition in July 2019. The team were very happy to have helped their 7th ranked alliance team to the semi-finals in the DDU competition.

In 2020 we felt we built a very capable little robot that could pick up balls and climb the hanger. However, Regionals were cancelled due to COVID and we missed out competing with that robot.  We did not register for the competition in 2021 due to fears about disruptions due to COVID.

In 2022 we returned with another capable little bot (aka “Stewie”) that was able to pick up balls from the floor and reliably score into the high hub from a fixed region.  We were second pick of the 6th ranked alliance but our alliance bowed out in the first round.

Some Numbers​

Some numbers based on the team.

6

Seasons as a team

7

Robots Built

3

Awards Won

56K+

Times we lost it over something going slightly wrong​
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