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

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.

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.

Team 3044 competed in their third regional competition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts from March 10-12 for Logomotion.

Team 3044 is now preparing for the BattleCry competition which is also staged at WPI and is an unofficial regional. The BattleCry competition will be occurring on Friday and Saturday on the week of the 20th this May. Logomotion will also be played there but with a few added rules.

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 can 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.