a. Qualified for the Iowa Championship for the first time in team history; b. Placed Top 5 in Qual. Matches at the League Tournament and the Iowa Championship; c. Served as Alliance Captains at both the league tournament and state competition; d. Earned a spot at a premier event based on robot and drive team performance; e. Advanced team programming from block-based coding to Java; f. Strategically built a second robot through multiple trials and data-driven decisions; g. Conducted multiple STEM outreach events reaching hundreds of participants; h. Raised $4,000 to support team operations, competition, and growth

a. 92% of our team members are rookies, so we are mostly a first‑year team; b. Our robot is named Zippy, inspired by the 113 zip ties holding it together; c. We proudly have a sister team, Robo Raptors #20097; d. We are a middle school FTC team, made up of 7th and 8th graders; e. Because of our age, parents travel with us to every competition ; f. Collaboration is a bigger focus than individual roles; g. Teamwork and laughter are essential; h. We do a team "Sendt" off after every practice and competition;