Welcome!

 

Welcome to the home of NEOFRA, the Northeast Ohio FIRST Robotics Alliance, a partnership of FIRST robotics teams in the Youngstown-Warren, Ohio region. 

        Our member FRC teams hold many fundraisers throughout the year in support of their robotics programs.  We post notice of these events to our NEOFRA Calendar.  Teams have numerous events scheduled in the coming months.  Feel free to click the Calendar link and check them out!


The 2024 Mahoning Valley Robotics Challenge is scheduled for Saturday September 14th, 2024 at Warren G. Harding HS in Warren, OH.

Team Registration is now open, as is Volunteer RegistrationClick here for more MVRC information!


NEOFRA teams design and build robots to compete in one of four different levels of yearly robotics competitions facilitated by the non-profit FIRST organization.


 Our shared mission "is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership."

It's back!  Team E.L.I.T.E. 48 is hosting a Charity Food Drive at the 2024 MVRC to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning ValleyAndyMark gift certificates of $150, $100, and $50 will be awarded to the teams who bring in the three highest donation counts!  

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NEOFRA is proud to support the OH WOW! Roger and Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science and Technology's Silly Science Sunday every year in September.  

NEOFRA would like to thank the Art Outreach Gallery at the Eastwood Mall in Niles for their long-time partnership with us, serving as our non-profit fiscal agent.  In addition to their financial services, the AOG has promoted FIRST and NEOFRA ideals by hosting FIRST LEGO League teams, displaying local FRC robots in their gallery windows, and co-planning numerous robotics demonstrations and other FIRST-related events at the mall.  We invite you to visit the Art Outreach Gallery Art Outreach Gallery to learn about all the great things they do for the local community.

Art Outreach Gallery

NEOFRA formed in the summer of 2007. Our collaborative mission is to share team knowledge, best practices, and engineering resources among our NEOFRA teams, and to unite our efforts to create and sustain more FIRST programs locally.  Our teams recognize the extreme risks of "going it alone" and understand the importance of working together, both to elevate our individual programs and to improve our collective sustainability.  

  

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For more information about FIRST Robotics, please visit the official FIRST website, http://www.firstinspires.org.

 

NEOFRA FRC Teams currently include:

Team 48 - Team E.L.I.T.E. from Warren, Ohio

Team 379 - The RoboCats from Girard, Ohio

Team 1787 - Flying Circuits from Pepper Pike, Ohio

Team 2010 - The Lightning Bots from Champion, Ohio

Team 3193 - Falco Tech from Austintown, Ohio

Team 4601 - Circuit Birds from Canfield, Ohio

Team  8718 - Tigerbotics from Howland, Ohio