First Tech Challenge Team ENIGMA 16265 is in our 5th season and currently has 10 team members grades 7-12. We are currently 4 time New Mexico State Champions in Robot Play (Winning Alliance Team Captains) We work hard at having fun and learning the concepts of STEAM education as we build really cool and effective robots.
Help us get to the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN HOUSTON
We are so excited that we qualified to represent New Mexico and the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship in Houston TX, April 17th-21st 2024. We are currently seeking individual donations and corporate/business sponsorships.
A BIG THANK YOU!
To our latest sponsor:
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FTC Team ENIGMA 16265 (NM State Championship Winning Alliance Captains) will be representing New Mexico at the World Championship in Houston on April 17th – 20th and will compete with 185 other teams from around world.
To contribute you can visit http://backers.team/16265 or logo above to visit our GoFundMe page.
ENIGMA 16265 is the flagship program of the Applied Dynamics Initiative non-profit family of STEAM Education programs who’s mission is: “To spark an interest and nurture a passion in students for participation in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Arts & Mathematics.” We accomplish this mission via educational classes and extracurricular activities with a heavy emphasis on robotics while participating in the FIRST Inspires family of programs, FIRST Lego League, FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition. The famous saying of the founder of FIRST Inspires, Dean Kamen is “This is the only sport where every student can go professional.”. Another saying we love is that “Kids build robots, Robots build kids!”.
ENIGMA 16265 is a 5th year veteran team and are 4 time New Mexico State Championship Winning Alliance Captains winner and 2022 New Mexico State Championship Inspire Award winner earning a trip the World Championship. In these 5 years we’ve been ranked as high as 54th in the world and in this season sit at 98th out roughly 8000 registered teams. We are so excited to get another chance to compete at The World Championship. It is an experience for these students like none other.
We practice Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition.
Our programs are building a highly skilled workforce for New Mexico by teaching skills in all the STEAM categories and providing opportunities for students to pursue careers in these high paying fields.
We are 100% operated by volunteers and you can rest assured that your contributions go the benefit of the students we serve.
You can preview the first of our finals matches where our ENIGMA 16265 and A.S.T.R.O. Vikings 23974 as the Red Alliance set the high score of of the day and season state record:
NM State Championship Finals Match-1
To get involved, please reach out to us at https://adisteam.org. We are always looking for students, volunteers, sponsors, advocates, lobbyists, etc.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!! None of this would be possible without you…
ENIGMA 16265 2023-2024 Season, NM State Championship Winning Alliance Captains
ENIGMA 16265 2022-2023 Season
Inspire Award Winner, Winning Alliance Finalist, Competed in NM and Utah State Championships
ENIGMA 16265 2021-2022 Season, NM State Championship Inspire Award Winner & Winning Alliance Captains
ENIGMA 16265 2020-2021 Season & NM State Championship Winning Alliance Captains
ENIGMA 16265 2019-2020 Rookie Season & NM State Championship Winning Alliance Captains
ENIGMA 16265 started out in 2019 as a rookie FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team with 9 members, ages 12-16, grades 7-11.
INSPIRE AWARD WINNING ROOKIE ROBOTICS TEAM 2019-2020
ENIGMA 16265
Running a robotics team can be very expensive as we are responsible to get all of our own power tools, hand tools, tool chests/cabinets, workbenches, electronics, computers, robot parts, competition field / game pieces for programming, uniforms, materials to build a pit, merchandise to give out at competitions, and we travel a lot for competitions. We didn’t want to just ask for money so we come up with a way to give our supports something awesome for helping us out. Remember many of these students will go on to receive scholarship opportunities due to the professional skills learned while participating in competitive robotics.
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