The FIRST©  Program is a program made to inspire young people to want
 to go into science or technology fields and help others get a positive attitude about 
technology and science. First offers many different programs like FIRST©
 Robotics Competition, FIRST©  Tech Challenge, and FIRST©  Lego Leauge.
FIRST©  began in 1992 by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway,  with only 28 teams
 and now is extended to about 150,000 or more students. There is a long, fun and
 educational history to the FIRST©  program. Every year the FIRST©  Robotics Competition
 comes out with a new challenge which is announced on the first full week of
 January. The teams then have six weeks to design, build, and test a robot 
capable of completing the challenge that is announced. After the regional meets
 then the top teams go on to national events to compete against the top teams 
from the regional events.

In addition to robot competitions there are also awards that extend the FIRST© 
program beyond competition and into other skills that also benefit students in a 
"Real World" career. Some examples are the "Chairman's Award", the "Web Design 
Award", and the "Woodie Flowers Award".

The "Chairman's Award" is the highest award that can be given to any team, and 
reminds people that FIRST© isn´t just about robots. Since it is the highest 
award there are a lot of requirements that go along with it, some are writing an 
essay of about 1,500 words, a DVD about the team, and other pieces of writing 
about how the  FIRST© mission has affected the team. 

The "Woodie Flowers Award" is an award that is given to a mentor that a team 
chooses to nominate. Then the team must write a paper on why they chose that 
member and how that mentor is an important part of the team. These papers are 
then submitted to FIRST© who then read the papers and give the award to the 
mentor that they see best fit for the award.
Lastly there is the "Website Award" which is based on the teams website and on 
how they use the website and how the team presents itself and FIRST©. Also the websites 
are evaulated on how they are usefull for the team and how well they 
are avaible for other teams to utilize. The website award also is to also teach 
students on the growing importance of creating a professional website. 

In all FIRST© isn't just all robots, but is also is there to prepare students 
for a future career in a science or technology field, or even other career 
fields. The "Chairmans Award", "Woodie Flowers Award", and the "Website Award" 
are pretty good examples of the FIRST© program reaching beyond just robotics.

Team 1091 was started in 2002-03 by a TAP communications teacher. A student got her
interested in the FIRST Robotics program. Since then, we have competed in 9 FIRST Robotics Challenges 
with the aid of mentors in various fields, such as tool and die, design and 
engineering, and programming. Although the team has been through many struggles, 
we always overcome the challenges through hard work and working together as a team. 
We have been known as a "Never Say Die" team by some of the past chairman's judges.
Our proud team has several alumni that have gone into different engineering fields,
such as Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Game Design, Agriculture, 
Automotive, T.V. and Video Production and even The Armed Forces. The schools that 
many alumni of team 1091 attend are MSOE, UW Platteville, UW Madison, UW Oshkosh, 
Purdue University, Alverno College, and Michigan Tech. Also, several former students
have returned to the team to mentor. We are very proud of one of our alumni that has
gone on to become the vice president of the Purdue FIRST Team, displaying the 
"Gracious Professionalism" that FIRST is all about.
Not only do we compete in FRC events, but we have been reaching out into the 
community, to interest young minds and get them involved with FIRST. We have started 
two FLL (FIRST Lego League) teams, called Oriole Lite and Erin Energy Force, at Erin
School in 2010 and help mentor the teams. Also, there are three junior FLL teams 
ranging from Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
Team 1091 has been competing for 9 years, and plan to continue for years to come. 
We hope that we continue to inspire young students, encouraging  them to join the 
HUHS Robotics Team 1091 when they enter high school. With our cooperative skills, 
broad talents, and innovative minds team 1091 will continue to expand.

Anne Zechel

Carl Zechel

Roger Kunz

Scott Rogahn

Tim Perrin

Wayne Mordeszewski

Joey Olkiewicz

Joe Wendt

Laurie Sullivan

Linda Helvick

Paul Mordeszewski, BIG PAUL!!

Cindy Helman

Vicki Mitchell

Jerome Kenealy, Mr. Break It

Alisha 

Brady

Jessica

Joshua

Jacob

Tyler

Patrick

Allen

James

Kristina

Shawn

Brandon

Caroline