"One Team, Two Robots"
What is Beastbots?
Beastbots (FRC Team 4861) is our sister team, officially created in 2024 and intended to give our new members a low-stakes environment to gain hands-on robot skills. Every member in our organization is automatically a member of Eastbots (FRC Team (4795). However, new members have the opportunity to work on Beastbots in their first and second years in order to practice their skills in a low-stakes environment.
What do they do?
Since Beastbots is intended to be a low-stakes learning environment, new members consider several different robot designs that come out at the beginning of the season, such as the REV Starter bot, the FRC Kitbot, and the Robonauts Everybot, which was chosen this year. The robot is then slightly modified, such as converting the drivebase to swerve, and then build according to CAD and instructions. At competition, Beastbots competes as a separate team under the team number 4861. Beastbots will not go to the FNC District Championship or the FRC World Championship even if they qualify; all members will compete under the Eastbots team at those events.