Mason Center for Robotics
Our Story
Mason Center for Robotics believes that learning through competition provides a complete learning and fun environment for kids who are interested in STEM careers. Our journey began in 2018 providing FLL teams to Mason City Schools. Today, our robotics center provides top competitive robotics teams with professional coaching linked with local and global professionals in engineering, robotics, and manufacturing.
Our Teams
Mason Center for Robotics provides competitive teams for ages 9 - 18 through FIRST robotics. First Lego League (FLL-C) provides competitive robotics using Lego Robotic Kits including an annual competition theme and project. First Technical Challenge (FTC) challenges middle and high school age kids to design, build, and code robots to compete in an alliance from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming. In First Robotics Competition (FRC) teams of high school students are challenged to build industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game in alliance with other teams
Our Mission
Our mission at Mason Center for Robotics is to provide professionally coached and trained teams the competitive environment to learn and grow through competition through STEM related challenges. By providing a professional environment with resources beyond what parents or teachers can provide, our approach is to bring what club sports are to robotics and other STEM competitions. A fun environment with resources and a community where kids can find the right level of commitment, competition, and learning through a team of like-minded students.
Mason Center for Robotics is a non-profit organization (501c3 pending). We welcome donations to help fund our robotics programs to offset the costs and expenses for our students.