Team 3044 is a FIRST Robotics team participating in its fourth year of competition. Also known as 0xBE4, Team 3044 is from Ballston Spa High School in Ballston Spa, New York. We’re made up of twenty students with passions for creative thinking, engineering, and problem solving. We are dedicated to providing an environment that fosters hard work and strong relationships.

2009 The Journey Begins!!!

Team 3044 began competing in the 2009 FIRST Robotics competition, Lunacy. This game was played on an empty Regolithfield, which gave a lack of friction thus simulating one-sixth of the Earth’s gravity, comparable to the force of gravity on the moon.

2010 We Return!!!

In 2010, 0xBE4 returned to the Rochester Institute of Technology for the FRC game Breakaway, which was essentially soccer-botics. Teams played soccer on a carpeted field with two bumps that ran the width of the field.

2011 A Year of Rewards!!!

Team 3044 competed in our third regional competition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts from March 10-12, 2011 for Logomotion. We were thrilled to advance to the quarter finals and our team won a Pit safety award!

2012 Continuing the Adventure!!!

We started the 2011-2012 season off with a bang. Our off-season project was building a T-shirt launcher robot. We also started a website team that produced this very website. Hooray for us!!!!! This year we are competing in The Finger Lakes Regional for Rebound Rumble. Hope to see you there.

 

What does our name mean?

0xBE4 translates to 3044 in the hexadecimal (base-16) number system which goes 0-9 and then A-F. Hexadecimal is also a programming language like Java or LabView. The 0x part of the name denotes the beginning of the hexadecimal string, this means that it is the beginning of a line of hexadecimal code. The BE4, when broken down into decimal form, means 3044 which is also our team’s number.