FRC Team 3494 - The Quadrangles

05/08/2026

Krakatoa put together its strongest showing of the season at the FIRST World Championship, and walked away with the quality award at the Archimedes division! See you in 2027

04/21/2026

Come find out more about The Quadrangles and I.C.E. Robotics at the Open House at our workspace on May 11! Everyone welcome!

04/20/2026

This weekend The Quadrangles competed at the Indiana State Championship! We shot and climbed well, worked through a couple ball jams and electrical issues, and ended qualifications ranked 13th. We were selected by Huntington County 4-H Robotics Team 1501 to be on the 5th alliance along with Hatchet Robotics team 8116. Our alliance also brought in Team 9491 Crypto Creek as a backup robot for one of our tournament matches. The 5th alliance fought hard and made it to the 10th match of the tournament.

The team spent a lot of time in the pits talking to judges, and were rewarded for the effort by winning the Excellence in Engineering Award! In addition, Jiping was named one of two FIRST Leadership Award Finalists (formerly Dean’s List) and will be competing at Worlds for the award.

And speaking of Worlds, we found out at the end of the Championship event that we qualified to compete at the FIRST World Championship in Houston next week! We are super excited to join our sister teams FTC 11329 I.C.E. Robotics and FLL 29312 Harvey Hawkbots in going to Worlds 2026!

04/16/2026

Grandview Elementary STEM Night! Thank you for inviting us!

04/01/2026

FUN Feature on our Spindexer and Volcano!

04/01/2026

Last weekend The Quadrangles competed in our second district event in Lafayette. We did very well in qualification matches, even achieving Indiana’s first Transversal Ranking Point, and at the end of qualification matches we ranked 3rd out of 35 teams! We were the Captain of the 2nd Alliance, and very happy to be able to pick FIRST Team 4272: Maverick Robotics and SHAM-ROCK-BOTICS. Our alliance finished third in the tournament. The Quadrangles won the Excellence in Engineering Award and team member Jiping was chosen as a FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist! Later we learned that we qualified for the State Championship. Thank you to all the hardworking volunteers that made the Lafayette event happen.

03/19/2026

We are super excited to announce that our sister team, FIRST Tech Challenge Team 11329 - I.C.E. Robotics, will be competing at the FIRST World Championships in Houston April 29 - May 2!!! Last weekend at the Indiana State Championship they ranked first after qualification matches, and chose Team 14596 - XLR8 as their alliance partner. The alliance set an event high score of 427 on the way to winning the Championship. I.C.E. also won Inspire 3rd Place, and team member Edward won one of the 3 FIRST Leadership Awards and will also be competing for that award at Worlds! What a great season they have had so far!

01/30/2026

Happy Birthday and thank you for your generous support of our transition to a community-based team!

✨🎉 We are beyond grateful to see another birthday wish come in today. Sending a huge thanks to the FRC Team 3494 - The Quadrangles for taking time from their busy schedule to acknowledge our milestone. As one of our first 5 year 25+ Kiwanians Who Care Night of Giving recipients, we are excited to see the transition complete and their great work continuing through the new community-based platform.

Thanks for the wonderful work you are doing to help students stay interested and focused on STEM! We appreciate you 🙌. Keep up the great work! Kiwanis Hoosier Division SCI Kiwanis Club

01/19/2026

We are off and running for the 2026 season, “Rebuilt”! We spend two days at IU Luddy Hall analyzing and strategizing and brainstorming, and then on to our home in the IU MESH for prototyping and designing. It was a great first week!

01/18/2026

Who doesn’t love freshly made pastries and loaves of bread? With this fundraiser, you order products online on the Muddy Fork Farm & Bakery website (https://muddyforkbakery.square.site/s/order) today through next Wednesday January 21 using Promo code “ROBOTICS”. Product can then be picked up the morning of Saturday January 24 at the location you choose, such as the Winter Farmers Market at Switchyard Park, Bloomingfoods East, etc. Then RoboBoosters receives 20% of your purchase from Muddy Fork!

Another option is that you can go to the Winter Farmers Market in person on Saturday morning January 24 and mention the promo code "ROBOTICS" when you buy from Muddy Fork directly.

Whichever way you choose, we hope you will enjoy this delicious and generous fundraiser from Muddy Fork Farm & Bakery!

01/12/2026

Please join us at Buccetos for a delicious fundraiser this Wednesday January 14! Works at both locations, dine in or carry out with this flyer.