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On November 15, 2025, our team had the amazing opportunity to attend TheInclusion Collective’s Includ(Ed): Early Childhood Disability Inclusion Conference, held at Temple Emanuel, Mt. Lebanon, and I’m still thinking about everything we experienced. Even though I’m just a 9th grader and attending this conference for the first time, I was amazed by how many…
Today, teams 18603 Terabridges and 20223 USC Dynamics held a joint meeting with PA district 40 representative Natalie Mihalek as a part of our robotics advocacy movement. Western PA faces a challenge in participating in the FIRST robotics programs. There is lower support for teams on this side of state, hence the significant disparity of…
On Saturday, November 8th, 2025, Terabridges hosted and refereed our annual FLL Scrimmage for the Unearthed season at Upper St. Clair High School. A total of 47 middle school teams from across Western Pennsylvania came together to participate in the event, including several teams from Upper St. Clair. Seeing these teams that we mentor achieve…
Terabridges exhibited at the Pittsburgh Robotics Network Discovery convention at David L. Lawrence convention center! We had so much fun hosting a booth and met so many skilled individuals and interesting companies to share our progress with. At our booth, we had our INTO THE DEEP and DECODE season robots out for showcase! We also…
On November 3rd, our whole team got the chance to visit Carnegie Robotics, a company that specializes in manufacturing products and systems that can reason their surroundings to deliver autonomy. In this visit, we were able to learn and explore the world of automating physical solutions to make them more effective. We met with multiple…
Today, TeraBridges went to Child’s Way daycare for medically fragile children and donated assistive technology. We had so much fun seeing the happy faces of the children and the staff! Specifically, our team customed two automatic bubble blower toys to be operated with the use of an assistive button. We rewired the internals to a…
Dean Kamen
Founder, FIRST