Inspiring the next generation of innovators by making STEM accessible, exciting, and especially silly!
We all work together in 3 main subgroups: engineering, programming, and business & outreach. The engineering team designs and fabricates the robot. The programming team gets the robot up and running. Business & Outreach keeps us connected with the community. It's all student run.
Fabrication, machining, assembly, and the pit crew that keeps the robot alive between matches.
Java on Android Studio and Onblock Java, autonomous routines, vision targeting with AprilTags, and driver controls.
Sponsorship, budgeting, branding, awards submissions, and community events.
In January, FIRST reveals the game. From that moment we have about six weeks to go from a blank whiteboard to a competition-legal robot — then it's straight into regional competition.
Watch the game reveal, read the manual, and strategize what actually wins matches.
Prototype mechanisms, CAD the full robot, and lock the design before we cut metal.
Machine, assemble, wire, program, and test — usually all at once, usually late.
Qualification matches, alliance selection, playoffs, and awards at regional events.
We started in 2024 as Eagle Vision, a rookie FIRST Tech Challenge team that didn't get past qualifiers. The next season we made it to regionals — and in 2026 we took the step up to FIRST Robotics Competition as Team 12064, the Mechanical Monkeys.
Eagle Vision is still going strong. Better funding means we no longer have to choose between programs — we run both: Eagle Vision in FTC and the Mechanical Monkeys in FRC. Same members, two robots, two seasons at once.
The scale changed. The mission didn't: give students real engineering problems, real deadlines, and real ownership.
Registration, materials, tools, and travel add up fast. Sponsors cover that gap — and get their name on our robot, our shirts, and in front of thousands of families at every event.