Team History
Getting Started
2012-2014
In 2012, a group of five students founded Eastbots in East Chapel Hill High School's wood shop. Joined by three classmates and two mentors, they built our first robot in the prop closet behind East's theater. Competing at the Raleigh Regional, we won three of our nine matches. We kept building throughout the 2014 season, and won our first (silver) medals at THOR, NC's official offseason competition, that fall.
Making Upgrades
2015-2020
After competing at the 2015 North Carolina Regional, we changed our team structure and began electing leaders democratically, drastically improving our sustainability and effectiveness as a team. We kept improving until 2018, when we won our first ever award at the UNC Pembrooke District Event. That year, we performed well enough to play for the first time at state championships, where our strategic design helped us make it to Worlds. We continued on our upward trajectory until 2020, when our promising early season was cut short by the COVID pandemic.
Present Day
2021-2026
We honed our skills throughout the pandemic, participating in the Infinite Recharge at Home and Game Design challenges. When the pandemic ended in 2022, we were quick to make up for lost time, winning an event for the first time and starting our five-year (and counting!) Worlds qualification streak. 2023 had us getting another blue banner and being the finalists at State Championships, which we managed to win the next year. Also in 2023, we began ERC, our training competition, and started Beastbots, our sister team. Since then, we've been one of the top robotics teams in the state while fulfilling our mission: inspiring the next generation of leaders in STEM.
