The Wire Clippers

Portsmouth High School Robotics | FRC Team 5902

We’re the Wire Clippers.

The Wire Clippers is a group of high schoolers passionate about STEAM and robotics. We participate in FRC, a yearly robotics competition run by FIRST® Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) that’s been encouraging students to learn skills in engineering, programming, and sustaining a business since its founding in Manchester, NH by Dean Kamen in 1989.

We’re completely self-funded and student-run. After our necessary fundraising efforts (which you can take part in), we have six weeks to build and program a robot to complete tasks. We’re a passionate little group that’s enthusiastic and driven.

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Mentors: Don Delisle, Jeff Gunn, Keith Wilkinson

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A few of our team members visited New Franklin Elementary School on Wednesday to present our team and robots during their STEM night. We had a blast talking to both the kids and parents. Thank you to NFS for having us! Here are some photos from our pizza party yesterday. Huge thank you to Flatbread for the donation! first robotics meeting! lots of new faces - we've worked on assembling the chassis, keeping up the electrical stuff, some budget stuff, and keeping up with sponsors. Here are some photos from our school’s club fair. We ended up getting around 30 sign ups, and we won our school’s contest for a pizza party! Just as a reminder, the team is always looking for new members who are interested in building and programming, but also marketing and business. In the past few weeks, we have been conducting some outreach visits to connect with other schools in our community. Here are some photos from M H Trefethen School in New Castle and Greenland Central School in Greenland. Our second presentation was in collaboration with the FTC teams at GCS. We had lots of fun at both of these events, and we look forward to seeing these students continue to engage with STEM in the future! hey! been a while since we posted. here's some videos & photos of us from the robotics expo at portsmouth naval shipyard! At the UNH District Event, we placed 22nd out of 35 teams in the qualification matches. We are happy with our overall performance this season and are looking forward to our post-season projects, so look forward to more posts! UNH Day One. We ended the day 16th of 35th teams and we have three more matches to go. Day two here we come!