Ferradermis, FIRST Robotics Competition Team #6574, is based out of Whitewater High School in Whitewater, WI. The mission of Ferradermis is to create a sustainable extracurricular environment and provide mentorship for high school students to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Ferradermis aims to prepare members for STEM and business careers, while challenging, empowering, and inspiring students. The team also strives to build leadership skills, self belief, and gracious professionalism.
UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena played host to fifty-four high school FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota from March 14 – 17, 2024. Wisconsin currently has sixty-six active FRC teams, and forty-four of them were playing in this tournament. Whitewater High School’s team, Ferradermis, […]
The Whitewater High School FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team #6574 Ferradermis traveled to Duluth for the Northern Lights Regional from February 28 – March 3, and came home as the Impact Award Winners, and as a result, qualified for FIRST Championships in Houston, Texas in April! […]
Named after FIRST Robotics Founder Dean Kamen, Dean’s List is an opportunity for each FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team to recognize up to two sophomore and junior team members for their demonstrated leadership and commitment to the FIRST core values of discovery, innovation, impact, inclusion, teamwork, […]
Washington Elementary hosted an in-house unofficial FLL Competition for three teams of 4th and 5th graders on Thursday, February 8. Members of Ferradermis were able to act as refs for the robot runs and did their best to get the students fired up (despite the competition […]
On Tuesday, February 6, seven student members of Ferradermis traveled to Madison for FIRST Wisconsin’s Advocacy Day. The team began their day at the Monona Terrace Convention Center for training before heading to the State Capitol. Over the course of the day, the members met in […]
On Saturday, February 3, Ferradermis greeted over 80 guests at their Open House, held during a regular team workday. Students set up “stops” on the tour where visitors could learn about the 2024 game, check out the CAD design of the new robot, see a swerve […]
“3 – 2 – 1 – LEGO!” These words could be heard over and over from the announcers at Mukwonago High School on Saturday, November 18, as they counted down to the start of a match for the 36 FIRST Lego League (FLL) Teams from around […]
On Saturday, November 25, twenty-six Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts from Whitewater and surrounding cities descended on Whitewater High School with one goal – to earn their robotics badges. Members of Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Competition Team, hosted the event, running workshops throughout the […]
Three Ferradermis Leadership Team Members, Cosette Wildermuth-Breitzman, Maddison LaHaie, and Erison Dreksler, teamed up with the President of FIRST Wisconsin, Renee Becker-Blau, to introduce more schools to the world of FIRST Robotics during the SLATE Educational Technology Conference held at the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells on […]
Outreach Subteam Lead Maddison LaHaie offered two sessions at FRC Training Day on December 2. The training was held at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee and attended by other area teams. Maddi’s first session was for people new to FRC to help them understand what […]
Shannon Frye, teacher at Lincoln Elementary, reached out to Ferradermis about creating some tools to help Lincoln kindergarten students with their pattern block puzzles. CAD Subteam Lead Zoe Olson and team member Chacha Binagi began to make plans to design and 3D print cookie cutter type […]
On Saturday, October 14, twenty-one members of Ferradermis, multiple Ferradermis alumni, and the Washington Bricklayers FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team traveled to Lake Denoon Middle School in Muskego for the inaugural TWIST Off-Season Event hosted by the WarriorBots FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team from Muskego High […]
Ferradermis members have been actively engaging with community members this summer during 5 visits to the Tuesday evening Whitewater City Market. Students have enjoyed interacting with visitors young and old, sharing stories from their 2023 season and emphasizing the importance of STEM education. The Market also […]
On August 3, WHS alum Michael Borglin presented Ferradermis Co-Captain Cosette Wildermuth-Breitzman and Whitewater Community Foundation Co-President Roni Telfer with a check for $10,000 for the Ferradermis Fund managed by the Community Foundation! Thank you, Michael! About Ferradermis Whitewater High School is the only school in […]
Ferradermis was one of 21 robots from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan that competed at the Mukwonago Robotics Off-Season Competition (MROC) on Friday and Saturday, July 28-29 at Mukwonago High School. The team finished the two-day event as the Captain of the Finalist (2nd place) Alliance and […]
A dozen members of Ferradermis travelled to Rockford, Illinois on Saturday, July 22 to compete with 30 robots from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin at the Rock River Robotics Offseason Competition (R2OC) at Rock Valley College. This was an opportunity for the team to work […]
On July 4, Ferradermis demonstrated their 2023 robot, Chief GatorVator, for the City of Whitewater and its guests during the annual 4th of July Parade. In addition, students distributed flags, candy, and other goodies to people along the parade route. Thank you to Cook Logistics for […]
Class of 2023 WHS and Ferradermis Alum Daniel (Peter) Portwine spent three days in Washington DC for the National Advocacy Conference sponsored by SASA (Student Association for STEM Advocacy). Daniel had the opportunity to meet Chris Moore, the CEO of FIRST Robotics on his first day […]
About half of the members of Ferradermis, including two brand new members who have joined this summer, were able to travel to Dousman on Saturday, June 24, for the Laser Lights Off-Season Event sponsored by FRC Team #2077 Laser Robotics from Kettle Moraine High School. The […]
WHS celebrated Robotics Week from April 3 – 6. Throughout the week, students participated in trivia contests and helped raise money for the Family Emergency Fund. On Wednesday, each student received a fun pencil in homeroom, complete with a robotics fun fact. Activities wrapped up on […]
From Wednesday, March 22, through Saturday, March 25, the Whitewater High School FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6574 Ferradermis competed at the Wisconsin Regional in Milwaukee with 47 teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Mexico. Seventeen team members traveled to the event and took on […]
119 high school robotics teams from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota descended on the city of Duluth for twin FIRST Robotics Regionals at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (the DECC) from March 1 through March 4. Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s team, competed with 59 […]
Members of Ferradermis and representatives of the Lincoln FIRST Lego League Team hosted an open house on Saturday, February 11, at the high school. The team wishes to thank our community members, sponsors, and Senator Steve Nass for stopping by to check out the high school […]
On Wednesday, February 8, five members of Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Competition Team, were accompanied by mentors Dilpreet Randhawa, Brienne Brown, and Laura Masbruch as they travelled to the state capitol to raise awareness for FIRST with their state representatives during FIRST Wisconsin Advocacy […]
Each year, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Teams may nominate two sophomores or juniors for recognition on Dean’s List. Dean’s List is named for Dean Kamen who founded FIRST, and the award is the highest recognition for an individual student in FIRST Robotics. The award is meant […]
The Whippets of the Ferradermis FIRST Robotics Competition Team had a fantastic experience at Roboteer Rumble in Tremont, Illinois on November 4 and 5. The competition hosted 32 robots from 28 schools from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The team felt it was important to […]
Robotics now has a dedicated workspace within Whitewater High School! In the fall of 2016, Ferradermis was formed and began working at the local makerspace. By the end of the 2017 season, the team had moved permanently into the high school, but had nothing but a […]
The excitement and joy of solving challenging problems was evident as members of the elementary and high school robotics teams shared their experiences with members of Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) on Thursday, October 20, in the high school library. DKG promotes professional and personal growth of […]
Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Competition Team #6574, wrapped up their summer off-season competitions with a championship at MROC, the Mukwonago Robotics Off-Season Competition, on Sunday, July 24, at Mukwonago High School. This was the second weekend in a row in which Ferradermis was part […]
A small group of Whitewater High School students, Elijah Grall, Jazmin Cederberg, Peter Portwine, Emerson Dunham, Andrew O’Toole, Andrew Zimmermann, Payton Bunger, and Mel Prince, fielded two robots at the Lakeshore Invitational in Manitowoc on Saturday, July 16, and Ferradermis’ in-season competition robot (wearing #6574) brought […]
Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team #6574 Ferradermis completed their third and final regional competition for the 2022 season at the Seven Rivers Regional in La Crosse from March 30 – April 2. Teams traveled to the event from four states including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and […]
Forty-two high school FIRST Robotics teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota descended on UW-Milwaukee’s Panther Arena from March 23 – 26 for the FIRST Wisconsin Regional. Whitewater High School’s Team #6574 Ferradermis played well throughout the event! Ferradermis played 12 qualification matches with a final record […]
Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis has been busy prototyping, designing, manufacturing, building, wiring, programming, and testing their 2022 robot since FIRST unveiled the new game for the Rapid React season on January 8. The team is currently between competitions, having traveled to Duluth, Minnesota […]
Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis would love to invite you to join us for our Open House on Saturday, February 12, from 9 am until noon at Whitewater High School. Visitors will enter the building through Door #38, which is behind the auditorium and next […]
On Saturday, January 8, members of the Whitewater High School FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis gathered in the library at WHS for the worldwide reveal of the new game for the 2022 Season, Rapid React. The scoring opportunities in this year’s game are modeled after an airport, […]
Whitewater High School’s Robotics Team Ferradermis took to the field on Saturday, July 24, for one last summer off-season competition and came away champions. Laser Robotics hosted the second ever Laser Lights event at Kettle Moraine High School with 12 robots participating. Drivers Elijah Grall and […]
Ferradermis Captains Winning Alliance on Day One of Lakeshore Competitions, will Return on July 10 to Compete for Unofficial State Championship For the first time since March of 2020, Wisconsin FIRST Robotics Competition robots were able to get wheels on carpet for a real, live competition […]
Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team, has been named the Skills Competition Finalist (2nd place in their group of 30 teams) for Infinite Recharge at Home! When you rank all of the teams in the world together who submitted for the challenge, Ferradermis ranks #71 […]
Due to the pandemic, and the varying degree to which teams throughout the world could meet in person and get access to their equipment, the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) suspended all in-person play for the regular 2021 season and implemented a fully virtual set of competitions […]
Congratulations to Ferradermis team members Reilly Aschenbrener, Anderson Waelchli, and Sterling Truesdale, who recently won the Milwaukee Tool, “Hit the Nail on the Head,” competition with their Rube Goldberg Machine. What was unique about this machine and this competition? Instead of building one machine in the […]
Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis traveled to Duluth from March 4-7 to compete in the Northern Lights Regional with and against 59 teams from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Sweden. Ferradermis ended the qualification matches with a 6-3 record and ranked 13th out of […]
Current Ferradermis members, their mentors, and a few of their alumni traveled to Mukwonago High School on Saturday, January 4, for the 2020 FIRST Robotics season kickoff joining host Team #930, the Mukwonago BEARs; Team #5976, the CyberSaders from Catholic Memorial; Team #6421, the WarriorBOTS from […]
Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team, is incredibly excited to announce that they have received a NASA sponsorship for the second consecutive year! Ferradermis is one of only 3 teams in Wisconsin to receive this $5000 grant, and the only veteran team from the state […]
Eight female members of Ferradermis traveled to Indianapolis on September 27 and 28 to participate in IndyRAGE (Raising Awareness for Girls in Engineering), an event sponsored by team #234 Cyber Blue at Perry Meridian High School. The event featured 22 teams from Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and […]
Ferradermis traveled to Milwaukee on Saturday, September 14, to compete in Robofest at the Milwaukee Maker Faire, an off-season competition for the 2019 Destination Deep Space game with 18 other teams from around southeast Wisconsin. The competition gave Ferradermis and other teams a chance to try […]
Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team #6574, wrapped up a busy summer by hosting their second annual Boot Camp for new members from August 3 through August 10, 2019. Twelve veteran team members and nine of their adult mentors led fifteen new members through the […]
Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis will be hosting their second annual Robotics Boot Camp for new members from Saturday, August 3, through Saturday, August 10, 2019. Students will learn from veteran members and adult mentors about the FIRST Robotics program, the team, and all […]
Congratulations to the Whitewater High School FIRST Robotics Team Ferradermis on winning the first annual Laser Lights off-season event at Kettle Moraine High School from July 5-7, 2019. The team competed with and against 14 robots from around southeast Wisconsin, and ended up ranked 2nd after […]
Representatives of Ferradermis, Whitewater High School’s FIRST Robotics Team #6574, joined members of Paradigm Shift from Pewaukee High School, the Mukwonago BEARS, and CORE Robotics from the School District of Waukesha at Generac in Waukesha for a Robotics Team Day on Friday, June 28. Generac generously […]
In March, after finishing the qualification rounds ranked 3rd out of 54 teams, the Whitewater High School Robotics Team Ferradermis captained the second seeded alliance in the elimination rounds at the FIRST Wisconsin Regional, selecting the teams Paradigm Shift from Pewaukee High School and Oriole Assault […]
Another year, another victory for Whitewater High School’s Ferradermis (FIRST Robotics team 6574). The team competed March 27th through the 30th at the Wisconsin Regional in Milwaukee, picking up a second consecutive victory on top of their 2018 success. This year Ferradermis had their best showing, […]