About Us

History

Team 4096, Ctrl-Z, is a growing FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team from Champaign County in Illinois. Founded in 2011 by passionate students, parent and college mentors. Students come from 9 different highschools in Champaign, Urbana and the surrounding area, making up a unique and diverse group of 8th through 12th graders

What We Do

Each year FRC releases a new challenge to be completed in 6 weeks. Ctrl-Z designs, builds, and programs a robot to compete in each year’s game. For these 6 weeks, members of the team dedicate countless hours to the program in order to be ready for the competitions. The game is unique each year, and has different robot attributes from previous years, requiring students to be able to work quickly and effectively over these 6 weeks in order to do well.

Awards

Ctrl-Z earned the Coopertition Award at the Midwest Regional in our Rookie year (2012), the Spirit Award in our 2nd year (2013), and came in 4th place at the Midwest Regional in only our 3rd year of competing (2014).

Student-Run Team

While on this student-run team, students obtain valuable life skills and knowledge to assist them in pursuing post-secondary education, usually in the science and technology fields. The students are guided, when necessary, by our talented group of mentors, with experience in these fields, who are able to help the students learn more than they would be able to on their own. Ctrl-Z is very thankful to our many mentors and parents who spend countless hours with these students, as well as growing with them as a team.

Outreach

The team looks forward to reaching out to the community to encourage STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and robotics education across the area. We have made many presentations to elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as 4-H Clubs. We also have mentored FLL (FIRST LEGO League) teams, and help to put on the local FLL Qualifier Tournament each year.

4-H Involvement

NEED PARAGRAPH ON HOW 4-H affects Ctrl-Z. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur at ipsum posuere, interdum urna id, tincidunt est. Pellentesque placerat magna neque, ut sollicitudin enim hendrerit quis. Morbi ac nisi eros. Nam volutpat vitae neque vitae ultrices. Nullam vel risus et nunc blandit convallis.

Want to learn more about us? Please contact us!