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Girls Team Wins Top honors at FutureLAND Conference
Posted on October 15, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
Coach Jordan Siegler (third from the left) with student leaders from Lady VOLTAGE, the award-winning, all-girls robotics team from Cleveland, OH - (Image Credit: Jordan Seigler)
The members of Lady VOLTAGE, a community-based, all-girls, FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) team made quite an impression at the recent FutureLAND Conference by winning the 2025 “Hack-a-Thon Challenge!”
The team, composed of female students from 12 different high schools within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, was at the conference to demonstrate Athena, their student-designed and constructed competition robot from the 2024 FRC season. While there, the team attended panel discussions on the latest technological developments, participated in various networking opportunities, and sat in on interviews with some of Cleveland’s tech pioneers.
Later, with the guidance of Coach Jordan Seigler, the team's lead mentor, the ladies of Lady VOLTAGE competed in a “Hack-a-thon Challenge” that tested their problem-solving abilities. Working together as a team, the girls were able to use innovative thinking, and many of the skills that they had developed designing, building, and programming robots as part of the GLSC Robotics Initiative, to win the competition! Each participating member of the team received a new laptop computer and a $100 gift card as part of the prize package.
Speaking on behalf of the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative, Program Lead JonDarr Bradshaw said “the science center is extremely proud of these young ladies and all that they have accomplished this season.”
The FutureLAND Conference, which was held in Cleveland’s historic “Playhouse Square" District, is an annual multi-day conference celebrating the diversity in tech, arts, and culture in Northeast Ohio. For more information, or to register for next year's conference, visit the conference website at https://www.futurelandcle.com.
SEASON CALENDAR
AT A GLANCE
Click the active links below for additional information about that event or activity, and to learn which team(s) are participating.
PRE-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
September 20-21, 2025
Kettering University
1700 University Ave.,
Flint MI 48504
2025 Curiosity Open Robotics Challenge
September 27, 2025
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114
October 15, 2025
Warren G. Harding High School
860 Elm. Rd, Warren, Ohio, 44484
October 25 -26, 2025
Northville High School
45700 6 Mile Rd
Northville, MI 48168
FRC Mentor Training
November 8 2025 (9 AM- 4 PM)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
2026 REGULAR SEASON ACTIVITIES
January 10, 2026
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
Weekly Build & Practice Sessions
Meeting days, times, and locations vary by team. Click the link above to see the tentative schedules for all supported teams.
March 18 – March 21, 2026 (Week 3)
Wolstein Center, Cleveland State University
2000 Prospect Avenue E.
Cleveland, OH 44115
April 1 – April 4, 2026 (Week 5)
Cintas Center, Xavier University
1624 Musketeer Drive.Cincinnati, OH 45207
April 15, 2026 – April 18, 2026 (Week 7)
MVP Arena, 51 S. Pearl Street
Albany, NY 12207
2026 Student Recognition & VIP Awards Dinner
Date: TBD
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
April 29 - May 2, 2026
George R Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
OFF-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
2026 Ohio State Championship
May 16, 2026
Worthington Kilbourne High School
1499 Hard Rd,
Columbus, OH 43235
Hands Across Borders Build Sessions
Every Thursday & Saturday
(May 7 - June 20, 2026)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
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Saturdays: 10 AM - 3 PM
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Thursdays: 5 PM - 8 PM
Note - This schedule subject to change..
2026 Med Access International Humanitarian Medical Mission
June 22 - July 2, 2026
Hospital General Latacunga
Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province
Republic of Ecuador