More Than Just
Building Robots
FRC Team 5590: The Alumiboti empowers the next generation of engineers, artists, and creative geniuses through FIRST robotics.
Who are the Alumiboti?
Solve Complex Problems
Every year, FIRST gives the teams a new game challenge that they must design a robot to solve before competing against others in their region.
Empower Students
FIRST empowers students to be their best selves by giving them new challenges and goals to stretch their potential to new heights.
Build Future Leaders
Through community involvement, award planning, task management, and more, FIRST allows students to become leaders on the team and in their community.
Discover Yourself
FIRST challenges students and allows them to unlock new hobbies, competencies, and future career paths through the given challenges.
Learn STEM Concepts
STEM is at the heart of FIRST Robotics, and students learn many core concepts of mechanical engineering, programming, design, manufacturing, and more!
Apply Skills
FIRST students take the skills the learn in the classroom and expand upon them to design & build the robots needed to solve the game.
The Impact of FIRST

FIRST unveiled the Robotics Competition challenge "CHARGED UP"
Sponsored by the Gene Haas Foundation, in CHARGED UP, teams are inspired to see the potential of energy storage in a new light as they compete to charge up their communities.

Get a Look Inside the 2023 Fingerlakes Regional Competition
View the broadcast from 13 WHAM, out of Rochester, to get a summary of the Fingerlakes Regional Competition hosted at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Working with Our Neighbors to Tackle Our Biggest Challenges
The Alumiboti have partnered with other Western New York-based teams to strengthen the Buffalo FIRST Family, a collective aimed to promote & improve STEM education in the area.
We created a sport, [FIRST], as exciting as every other—but the only one where every kid on every team has the chance to turn pro.

Dean Kamen
Knowledge, competition, and empathy are comfortably blended…One can add to society and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing one has acted with integrity and sensitivity.
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Woodie Flowers
FIRST is more than robots. The robots are a vehicle for students to learn important life skills. Kids often come in not knowing what to expect. They leave with a vision, with confidence, and with a sense that they can create their own future
