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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
Cleveland Teams Finish Strong at Off-season Tournament
Posted on October 21, 2025, by J Bradshaw.
Congratulations to the four Cleveland-based robotics teams for their strong performances at the recent Voltage Valley Vibe, an off-season high school robotics tournament for FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) teams from Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. The four Cleveland teams are all based at high schools within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and sponsored by the Great Lakes Science Center as part of the science center’s Robotics Initiative.
Robotics Students Return from Latest Humanitarian Medical Mission to Ecuador
Posted on August 30, 2025, by J Bradshaw.
CMSD high school students, representing five high school robotics teams with the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative, display their work for Ecuadorian news media. – Image credit: Great Lakes Science Center
Student representatives from several local high school robotics teams have returned to Cleveland from Latacunga, Ecuador, after delivering custom-made 3D-printed prosthetic hands and arms to waiting children and families in need, and helping an international team of medical volunteers give free treatment to over 800 patients with all kinds of medical conditions.
In addition to working directly with doctors and nurses to provide life-changing aid, the students also had an opportunity to meet with government officials and local educators, as they helped promote local STEM initiatives. The students, who all participate in the Great Lakes Science Center's Robotics Initiative, also met with college students from a nearby technical school to answer their questions and to help them lay the foundation for starting their own prosthetics program to serve communities throughout the region.
GLSC Seeks Applicants for Summer Mission Trip to Ecuador
Posted on October 2, 2025, by J Bradshaw.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District students from the Great Lakes Science Center Robotics initiative and their adult mentors pose with two young patients during the 2024 humanitarian medical mission to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. – Image credit: Nicholas Fus.
The Great Lakes Science Center is now actively seeking student applicants to participate in a summer trip abroad. Med Access International has invited the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) Robotics Initiative to participate in the 2026 Summer Humanitarian Medical Mission to Latacunga, Ecuador. The mission is scheduled for June 23rd through July 2nd. GLSC is seeking up to six (6) students and four (4) adult chaperones to participate in this all-expenses-paid 10-day humanitarian medical mission.
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)
Robotics Students Deliver Life-Changing Prosthetics to Children in the Dominican Republic
Posted on August 30, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
Yariselle Andujar, a CMSD high school student and program participant with the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative, makes final adjustments to a new prosthetic device for a 4-year-old patient – Image credit: Great Lakes Science Center
Several Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students from the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative recently returned from a 10-day mission to the Dominican Republic (DR). The Cleveland-based high school students were in the DR supporting the important work of the nearly 75 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals with IMAHelps.org, a US-based, volunteer organization that runs humanitarian medical missions to impoverished communities in Asia, the Caribbean, and in Central and South America. The primary role of the Cleveland-based students was to fabricate, assemble, and deliver custom-made, 3D-printed, prosthetic hands and arms to nearly a dozen waiting children and their families.
Cleveland Teams Win State Championship!
Posted on May 12, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
From start to finish this past weekend’s FIRST® in Ohio Robotics State Championship was a BLAST! The tournament was filled with heart-stopping moments and dramatic come-from-behind finishes that left the audience on the edge of their seats. The event, featuring 32 of the top-performing FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) teams from across the “Buckeye” state, was livestreamed worldwide via Twitch TV!
CMSD Teams Perform Well at Buckeye Regional
Posted on March 24, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
Congratulations to the seven (7) Cleaveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) robotics teams that competed at the FIRST® Robotics Competition's 25th annual Buckeye Regional at the Wolstein Center this past weekend. Each of the Cleveland-based teams did very well and performed far better than expected in a very competitive field, made up of 55 top-performing high school robotics teams from across seven states and the People's Republic of China.
New All-Girls Robotics Team Featured on Local News
Posted on January 25, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
Jayleesa Jones, a high school student and member of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s new, all-girls robotics team, talks with reporters about her role as the team’s Electrical Sub-team Lead – Image credit. NEWS 5.
The members of FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Team #9643 (Lady VOLTAGE) were recently interviewed for News 5, Cleveland’s ABC affiliate. The Cleveland-based FRC team is making history, becoming only the third all-girls high school robotics team in the state and the first to service public schools in Northeast Ohio.
Two Local Robotics Students Recognized in People Magazine for Their Humanitarian Work
Posted on October 15, 2023, by J Bradshaw.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students Daniela Moreno and Yariselle Andujar with some of the early prototypes for “Hands Across Boarders,” a student-led, global community service project that the pair started to help child amputees both here and abroad. – Image credit: Ken Blaze.
Best friends Daniela Moreno, age 15, and Yariselle Andujar, age 17, from Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School were recently featured in People Magazine for their student-led initiative to design, engineer, and manufacture 3D printed prosthetics hands and arms for children in developing countries. The pair, who are participants in the Great Lakes Science Center's Robotics Initiative, were among the eight young ladies highlighted on PEOPLE's 2023 List of "Girls Changing the World," a special human interest article celebrating the International Day of the Girl.
LaShawn Thomas Named Mentor of the Year
Posted on October 2, 2023 by J Bradshaw.
“Coach” LaShawn Thomas of Cleveland’s East Technical High School celebrates with her students after being named “Mentor of the Year.” – Image credit: Great Lakes Science Center.
Congratulations to “Coach” LaShawn Thomas, lead mentor of FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Team #8145 (the Tech Warriors of East Technical High School) on being named winner of the 2023 Danielle Chronister "Mentor of the Year" Award. The award, which recognizes and celebrates one outstanding robotics team mentor from the region, was presented this past weekend at the Great Lakes Science Center’s 3rd annual Curiosity Open Robotics Challenge.
Robotics Students Return From Humanitarian Mission Abroad After Delivering Prosthetics to Children in Need
Posted on August 30, 2023, by J Bradshaw.
Yariselle Andujar, a CMSD high school student and program participant with the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative, measures a young Ecuadorian girl for a prosthetic limb – Image credit: Great Lakes Science Center
Over the past year, several high school students from four Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) robotics teams have been working together to create custom-made, 3D-printed prosthetic hands and arms for child amputees in developing countries around the world. The students, who all participate in the Great Lakes Science Center's Robotics Initiative, call this student-led, global community service project “Hands Across Borders.”
Student-built Prosthetic Arm Reaches Young Girl in Ecuador
Posted on Oct 25, 2022, by J. Bradshaw
Thanks to video conferencing, student representatives from the FIRST® Robotics Competition team at Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School had the chance to meet a young girl in Ecuador whose life was changed for the better by their Global Community Service Project.
Local FIRST Students Featured on Fox 8 News
Posted on Oct 3, 2022, by J. Bradshaw
Students from the FIRST® Robotics Competition team at Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School were recently featured on Fox 8 News for their involvement on a Global Community Service Project that is changing lives both here in Cleveland and abroad.
