Villanova Wiredcats

The theme of the 2025 FRC season is Reefscape !

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Our 2024 Season Recap:

The first award we received was at the regional competition in North Bay - the Imagery Award which “celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance”. The interesting thing about this is that we would go on to win this award two more times, at our next regional competition and then again at Provincials.
At Provincials, our performance during qualifying rounds enabled us to be captains of the 4th place Alliance.
We ended up qualifying for Worlds which took place in Houston, Texas. This is the final event for all FIRST programs: Lego League, Tech Challenge, and Robotics Competition. FRC consisted of 8 fields with about 75 teams per field, about 600 teams in total. We competed in the Milstein division and got to be in alliances with teams from all over the United States, PLUS Brazil, Israel, and Turkey.
We ended up winning the Creativity Award in our division which “celebrates creativity that enhances strategy of play and was intentionally designed and not discovered.” This was a huge honour being presented with this on a world stage.

We finished the season top ranked in Windsor-Essex, 23rd in Ontario, 25th in Canada, and in the top 11% in the World.

See our official stats here!

About Us

We are FIRST Robotics Competition team 5885, the Villanova Wiredcats. We are a team of highly motivated and dedicated individuals who are proficient in constructing a robot. Robotics is not only a science but also a design, construction, problem-solving, and applications of robots. However, a definition that can be found in the Oxford English dictionary cannot fully define the magic of this program.

Robotics is, as we like to think of it, the science where dreams come true; the Robotics program improves students' confidence, team building, and expands career choices. Their passion is amplified in a program far from sports and other activities that encourages all age groups, genders, and interests to come together, where everyone is considered equal from mentors to students. Students learn real-life skills, problem-solving, and how to tackle objectives by thinking inside and outside the box.

This opportunity is far from just a competition, but a shaping of character, collaboration, and expansion of knowledge This just proves how powerful the study of science, engineering, and robotics has been to what we have set out to prove.