Through competitive STEM programs in the Greater Boston area, we aim to encourage students to expand their creativity and teamwork skills by allowing them to work in design challenges alongside real engineers, in order to prepare them for their college career.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Team 125 was founded in 1997 by a Northeastern University freshman and FIRST alumni. The origin of our name comes from our original sponsors, Northeastern University and Textron Systems: NU-TRONs. By 2005, we had only five students and one mentor and almost came to an end. Our persistence and dedication to draw in students and secure funding saved our team.
What started as just one sponsor has grown over 21 years to 10 sponsors. Our only monetary sponsor is currently SONOS yet we still have other sponsors that give us tools and facilities crucial to the making of our team, such as Revere Public Schools and Markforged. We have a very strong relationship with our sponsors, sending them holiday cards, shouting them out in our social media, informing them of our success in competition season as well as placing their names on our apparel and robot.
To do our part to preserve and ensure sustainability, in 2020 we established the Greater Boston 4-H Robotics to serve as the foundation for the NUTRONs FRC and 7 FTC teams, and our future endeavors to found Jr FLL and FLL in our communities. To this day we continue to accept students from all schools in the Greater Boston Area, including Revere High School, Boston Latin School, Brookline High School, Malden High School, Noble and Greenough High School, and Peabody Veterans Memorial High School.
Our mentors are all first alumni, being made up of undergraduates and professional mentors. Having mentors so close in age allow us to form a bond and feel closer to them. Our mentors have encouraged us to do the best work we can, and teach us lessons not just about STEM but about life.
We are proud of being a very diverse team. On our team, there are 18 different languages with 28 students speaking more than one language. Apart from English, Spanish is the second most spoken language, followed by Arabic. We have students from different countries such as Morocco, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, China, Cambodia, Haiti, and Colombia.
