Credit to Faith Smith

A group of Robaddies members work on their next project

There are tons of fun new clubs at FHN, there is even one where they build robots. The Robaddies are the girls robotics team at FHN. They build a robot to go and compete with other robotics teams around the area.

“[We start a game] where we try to figure out the goals of the game and how many points you could get and maximize your scoring ability to compete against others,” robotics sponsor at FHN Mike Green said. “After we figure that out, then we have to figure out what equipment we need and how we can [design the robot], so you can figure out if it is something we can buy or have to make.”

The Robaddies isn’t just about robotics, it is a space where girls can share their interest in engineering and making friends. They partner up with Girl Scouts to create events for little girls where they do different engineering and robotics activities to show little girls who want to do engineering that it’s possible.

“Our last captain tried to make everyone feel included and that every girl had a voice,” sophomore Alex Naramole said. “We wanna make sure that girls feel empowered and that they can vocalize their stuff and speak up for themselves in situations where people are saying that girls can’t do engineering. Robaddies works on trying to help little girls and younger kids find that voice, end up for themselves and do what they wanna do.”

Even though the team is fairly new and small, they’ve already seen success.

“Last year we made it to state and we almost made it to nationals,” Naramole said.

Even though Robaddies has already started, they are still taking on girls who are interested in joining. They have meetings every Wednesday after school in Room 0203 and people interested in joining can talk to Green.

“We have had a lot of senior girls join [these past couple of years], but this year we are [always looking for more],” Green said.