Welcome to RAPTAR!

R.A.P.T.A.R. stands for Robotics Adventure Professionals of Tidewater And Richmond.
We are a group of homeschooled students who decided that we wanted to form a robotics team.
We are continuing to spread our vines to public schools who do not yet have teams, and hope
to spread the word of FIRST and help them get more teams going!

Our biggest challenge each year is building a robot to compete in the FIRST Competition.
The robot is not the easiest part of the organization though, because to enter it into
competition, the robot must perform a certain function, within a certain timeframe, and must
be built using parts that will be sent to the team by January 10. The programming and
assembly is done by the team itself.

There is also the chairman's award to work toward. Part of this highly prestigious award
is a documentary on the building of the robot, and what our team is doing to spread the
spirit of FIRST. This is what those who have creative skills but no particular interest
in designing or assembling the robot do for the six weeks that the team is given to work
on their creation.

Last, but not least, are the adult mentors, people who are willing to volunteer their
time and experience to help us with our robot. Our team could not succeed without them.