New Kent Robotics extends heartfelt thanks for our first sponsor, Active Life Fitness Center! They are conveniently located on Aspengraf Lane in New Kent, across the parking lot from the Library, and provide 24/7 access, personal training, and a wide range of fitness classes. Stop by and say “thank you” to Active Life Fitness Center, and then ask for a tour!
Author: Coach Randy
New Kent Robotics is excited to announce a partnership with New Elam Baptist Church! This wonderful assembly is opening its facilities for our FTC team to hold regular meetings. New Elam Baptist is a historic church minutes from the New Kent Courthouse on Cumberland Road. The meeting space they have offered is spacious, giving us room to spread out as needed during meetings. They have also offered several options for material storage between meetings. We are all excited to see what can be accomplished with the blessing of this partnership!
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We held our first team meeting today, and it was AWESOME! We had 9 future engineers working on their first creation together, a little robot we named “Bambi” 
Before we left, everyone had a chance to drive it for just a little bit. What a great time we had!
New Kent Robotics is proud to announce the addition of coach #2 to our team, Coach Tim!
Originally from Long Island, NY (but don’t hold that against him) Tim Relyea is a Technical Support Engineer with ABB in Richmond, VA. He earned his Associate of Science from S.U.N.Y. Farmingdale, Farmingdale, NY, and Bachelor of Science,Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Prior to school, he spent 4 years in the US Army where he jumped out of airplanes (perfectly good ones) and played with automatic weapons and high explosives.
Prior to ABB, Tim was a Customer Support Engineer in the Semiconductor industry installing and maintaining semiconductor capital equipment. He also worked in the UPS industry (Uninterruptible Power Supplies) installing and maintaining Rotary UPS equipment, as well as Static Switches, Power Distribution Units and Remote Power Panels.
Tim’s son Caleb Relyea is a founding team member of New Kent Robotics. He is entering the 7th Grade at New Kent Middle School. When he is not building his world in Minecraft, he enjoys creating things with Legos (and pretty much anything else he can get his hands on), as well as creating games in Scratch.
Both Tim and Caleb are super excited to be a part of the New Kent Robotics team and are looking forward to the inaugural season!
We are happy to announce that 12 students have committed to join the 2019 FTC team for New Kent Robotics! We are excited to enter the 2019 season with this fine group of future engineers!