Our Team
Team 230, the Gaelhawks, is the Shelton High School robotics team who has been actively taking part in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) since 1998. In our twenty first year of involvement, the Gaelhawks are both an award-winning team and an active “STEM” force within the community. Students on the team are mentored by professionals in mechanical and electrical engineering, programming, and animation….
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Week 8 Newsletter
Waterbury Here We Come! As we near the end of build season, we’re just about ready to go to our first event next weekend. Our build and programming teams have been hard at work polishing, refining, and improving our robot for competition. This week we have been rigorously testing and practicing with our drive team at our newly […] -
Week 7 Newsletter
What’s next for the Gaelhawks? For the past two weeks, our team has come close to completing all the goals we set out to accomplish in the pre-season. We completed our practice field, which is a massive wooden structure at the STEM Center that has all the components needed for this year’s game. This is […] -
Week 4 Newsletter
Gaelhawks in the Community This week, the Gaelhawks have been active in our community. We visited the Ansonia Steel Fabrication Company (ASF) with a group of students from our team. We also introduced some younger students interested in robotics to the Gaelhawks program. These activities didn’t slow us down from our usual work of building, […] -
Week 3 Newsletter
One of the most important parts of the build season for our team is the practice field. Our practice field is used to test prototypes for mechanisms on the robot as well as to practice strategies prior to competition season. The field we build is typically half of the full field used at competitions and […] -
Week 2 Newsletter
The Gaelhawks Week 2 The Gaelhawks are back for week two! Our team has made tremendous progress in the last week in our core committees. We have established our roles for returning and newcomers on this team through our buddy system. This system allows new members to be partnered with a “buddy” which is a […] -
Kick Off (Week One) Newsletter
The Gaelhawks Week 1 Hey there! This is the Gaelhawks here to update you on how our season is unfolding. On January 4th, our season kicked off with the game reveal live stream from First, where teams all around the world got the first look at this years game and theme, Infinite Recharge. Kickoff day […] -
SpaceX Launch- 2/2/19
On March 2, 2019 SpaceX will be launching their first demonstration mission out of Launch Complex 39A. SpaceX is a company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft. This launch will be Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission. This launch will not have any crew on board since it’s main intention is to demonstrate SpaceX’s […] -
Week 6 Build Highlights
Hello Team 230 followers! It’s the Gaelhawks Team here, beginning our descent back to planet FIRST (R)! We are now in week 6 of our six week build season. Let’s get to the updates! Our practice robot is just about finished and our competition robot is close behind. Our competition robot is 85% finished with the elevator […] -
NASA, Women of Black History Month
“The highly acclaimed film Hidden Figures, released in December 2016, was based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Margot Lee Shetterly, which was published earlier that year. It follows Johnson and other female African-American mathematicians (Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan) who worked at NASA.” Mary Jackson was the first African American women to work for […] -
Week 5 Build Season Highlights
Hello Team 230 followers! It’s the Gaelhawks Team here, reporting from the multiverse! We are now in week 5 of our six week build season. Let’s get to the updates! Our Robot is progressing nicely. The build team has mounted the elevator onto the practice robot and finished building our competition robot elevator. The intake for cargo […]
