Featured on the FIRSTinspires blog and Chief Delphi, President Don Bossi thanked all the FIRST teams who sent him get well presents and wore MOE’s jersey! So happy you’re back Don!

MOE has started a weekly vlog on our build season progress! Make sure to check in! View at https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&a&v=veSWfJsj0JY

Happy Kickoff everyone! Saturday, the game reveal aired at 10:30 am and animated the Steamworks game! From now on the team meets four times a week to strategize, plan, and build! So excited!

Congratulations Leanne Townsend, mechanical student, and Arynn Hernandez, media student, our 2017 Dean’s List nominees! These girls showed and spread spirit for FIRST ideals on and off the team and excelled in STEM activities. They will soon go onto the next round of interviews within the MAR district, so make sure to wish them luck!

Special thanks to Georgia, the awesome student who hosted MOE’s Christmas party this year! White elephant was once again a peaceful success. What better way to celebrate Christmas than with your faMOEly! 

When you shop for your loved ones this Black Friday, smile.amazon.com will donate to MOE and FIRST! Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving this holiday!

-Your friends at MOE

Success Won’t Wait wrote an article about the Duel’s book drive! Thanks so much to all those who donated and colllected/moved them Friday and Saturday! Article available here!

The Duel had a huge turnout yesterday and was a ton of fun! We had 34 teams come out to compete and a lot of awesome volunteers! MOE made it to quarterfinals after breaking down further and further every match, our comp team did very well. Congratulations to Velocity 5420, Miss Daisy 341 and SaBOTage 1640, champions of Duel 2016! Big thanks to all of our volunteers and our co hosting team, South Jersey Robotics and 316 LuNaTecs and event coordinator John Larock! Also, our fundraising activities were very successful, collecting 11,318 pounds of books for our Success Wont Wait Book Drive, team 271 Mechanical Marauders being the winner of MOE’s Book Drive Award. Our bake sale raised over $1100, possibly breaking the record! Thanks to all those who donated and were in charge of those. Congratulations to the winner of the Mike Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award, Kevin McKay from Team 5401 Fightin’ Robotic Owls! So many great things from the Duel as always! GO MOE

Fellow lovers of robots! We need help holding the Duel this Saturday in NJ, please contact john.a.larock@gmail.com with any energy you can spare. We would really appreciate it, and it’s always a blast! (PS there will be food) GO MOE