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Girls Team Wins Top honors at FutureLAND Conference
Posted on October 15, 2024, by J Bradshaw.
Coach Jordan Siegler (third from the left) with student leaders from Lady VOLTAGE, the award-winning, all-girls robotics team from Cleveland, OH - (Image Credit: Jordan Seigler)
The members of Lady VOLTAGE, a community-based, all-girls, FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) team made quite an impression at the recent FutureLAND Conference by winning the 2025 “Hack-a-Thon Challenge!”
The team, composed of female students from 12 different high schools within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, was at the conference to demonstrate Athena, their student-designed and constructed competition robot from the 2024 FRC season. While there, the team attended panel discussions on the latest technological developments, participated in various networking opportunities, and sat in on interviews with some of Cleveland’s tech pioneers.
Later, with the guidance of Coach Jordan Seigler, the team's lead mentor, the ladies of Lady VOLTAGE competed in a “Hack-a-thon Challenge” that tested their problem-solving abilities. Working together as a team, the girls were able to use innovative thinking, and many of the skills that they had developed designing, building, and programming robots as part of the GLSC Robotics Initiative, to win the competition! Each participating member of the team received a new laptop computer and a $100 gift card as part of the prize package.
Speaking on behalf of the Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative, Program Lead JonDarr Bradshaw said “the science center is extremely proud of these young ladies and all that they have accomplished this season.”
The FutureLAND Conference, which was held in Cleveland’s historic “Playhouse Square" District, is an annual multi-day conference celebrating the diversity in tech, arts, and culture in Northeast Ohio. For more information, or to register for next year's conference, visit the conference website at https://www.futurelandcle.com.
SEASON CALENDAR
AT A GLANCE
Click the active links below for additional information about that event or activity, and to learn which team(s) are participating.
PRE-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
September 20-21, 2024
Kettering University
1700 University Ave.,
Flint MI 48504
2024 Curiosity Open Robotics Challenge
September 28, 2024
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
Hands Across Borders Build Sessions
2nd Saturday of the Month
(10 AM - 4 PM, Sept thru Dec)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
October 27, 2024 (9 AM - 1 PM)
Worthington Kilbourne High School
1499 Hard Rd,
Columbus, OH 43235
November 16, 2024 (9 AM- 4 PM)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
CNC Basics for Beginners (Workshop)
December 14, 2024 (10 AM- 1 PM)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
2025 REGULAR SEASON ACTIVITIES
January 4, 2025
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
Weekly Build & Practice Sessions
Meeting days, times, and locations vary by team. Click the link above to see the tentative schedules for all supported teams.
March 13 - March 15, 2025 (Week 3)
Gordon Field House & Activities Ctr., Rochester Institute of Technology
149 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
March 20 - March 22, 2025 (Week 4)
David L. Lawrence Convention Center 1000 Fort Dequense Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
March 27 – March 29, 2025 (Week 5)
Cintas Center, Xavier University
1624 Musketeer Drive.
Cincinnati, OH 45207
April 3 – April 5, 2025 (Week 6)
Wolstein Center, Cleveland State University
2000 Prospect Avenue E.
Cleveland, OH 44115
April 16 - April 19, 2025
George R Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
2025 Student Recognition & VIP Awards Dinner
April 24, 2025
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
OFF-SEASON EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
2025 Ohio State Championship
(Date TBD)
Worthington Kilbourne High School
1499 Hard Rd,
Columbus, OH 43235
2025 Shawshank Showdown
(Date TBD)
Mansfield Senior High School
124 N. Linden Road
Mansfield, OH 44906
2025 GLSC Robotics Initiative Summer Program (Internship)
June 17 - July 25, 2025 (Tentative)
Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
2025 Med Access International Humanitarian Medical Mission
July 24 - August 3, 2025
Hospital General Latacunga
Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province
Republic of Ecuador