We are the Near North Student Robotics Initiative, a robotics team representing the city of North Bay, Ontario and surrounding area. We compete with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a robotics competition dedicated to promoting science and technology to youth. FIRST game challenges change yearly and do not work on principles of battling and defeating your opponent
s, but rather Gracious Professionalism. Gracious Professionalism is competing like crazy but helping out other teams as they may be your teammate in another match. Each year we build a robot to compete in the First Robotics Competition, the largest competition in the FIRST family. We also compete in the VEX robotics competition as a way to train new members, and build 4 robots for this competition in the fall. We look forward to mentoring team 4069 from LoEllen SS in Sudbury, as well as team 4152 from Huntsville Ontario this year, as well as continuing to work with 2011 rookie Team 3739 from London Ontario who we mentored last year. We also mentor FLL teams, and are proud to be associated with three area teams, The Iceolators, Team Ice Breakers and Icetastic, providing mentoring and registration cost assistance. Our team also participates in numerous outreach events throughout the year, promoting science and technology in our community. Team Facts
Name: Near North Student Robotics Initiative
Nickname: Ice3
FRC Number: 1305
Motto: Tam insulsum est ut fortasse expediat! (It’s so crazy that it just might work!)
Colours: Silver and Blue
