About Us
Our Team
eThe Browncoats are a community FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) competition robotics team from the Huntsville, Alabama area. Currently, the team is made up of eleven students – ranging from 7th to 12th grade. These students are from public, private, and home schools all over the North Alabama area. This is our thirteenth year competing as an FTC team. The team name comes from the science fiction television series, Firefly. As a team, we aim to embody the core values of FIRST and expand the program in our community and throughout the country. In April 2025, we advanced to the FIRST World Championship held in Houston, Texas, which was our 6th time to qualify for Worlds. We won the 3rd Place Design Award. Stay Shiny!
Our Season
Our team is incredibly excited to be competing in our twelfth season, the 2024-2025 FIRST Tech Challenge Into The Deep Season. Be sure to follow our progress on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube for regular season updates.
Track Our Progress!
If you would like to keep track of our team’s competitions and results, visit our Orange Alliance page: https://theorangealliance.org/teams/7842
After each competition, the results will generally be posted soon after. You can also follow all of our social media, where we post about our journey!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FTC7842browncoats/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ftcbc7842
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftcbrowncoats/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3FZjdv4BWaNA7gnVq2ytAQ
Our Goals
Team FTC 7842 Browncoats’ mission is to spread awareness and recognition of FIRST robotics and STEM throughout our community, while also teaching students important life skills such as team work, communication, cooperation, experimentation, public speaking, building, programming, technical writing, marketing, fundraising, and more. Not only do we plan to introduce FIRST to as many people as we can, but we also plan to get them involved with the program through our efforts.
