Silly Servos #24213
FTC robotics team at Highland Park High School
We are a passionate robotics team dedicated to innovation, creativity, and learning.
About Us
FTC Team Silly Servos was founded in 2023 with the intent to fuel interest for STEM at Highland Park High School. With this program, we are able to provide a place where students foster a strong passion for science, technology, and engineering, while developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. FTC creates a competitive environment that our members thrive in as they brainstorm, design, construct, and test a unique robot. Not only do members build strong foundations essential to engineering and programming, they also gain crucial career skills and experience that employers and colleges value immensely. Students exclusively qualify for $80 million in scholarship money for participants of FIRST Robotics.
Proud participants in the global FIRST® Robotics community, inspiring future innovators through real-world engineering challenges.
Parts of Our Team
Design
The design team creates CAD models using Onshape and engineering drawings for robot components.
Build
The build team constructs the robot using components from Gobilda, REV, and more.
Program
We program the robot using Java and implement advanced path-following algorithms using Road Runner.
Outreach
We seek sponsorships and spread STEM values in our community.
Robots in Action
From early prototypes to competition-ready builds, our robots showcase the engineering, programming, and teamwork that define Silly Servos.
🏆 Think 1st Place Award
We are proud to announce that Silly Servos earned 1st Place Think Award at the 2025-2026 DECODE Illinois Suburban Northeast League Tournament. The Think Award recognizes teams that demonstrate excellence in engineering design, strategic analysis, and documented testing. This season, our robot was built entirely from a strategy-first mindset. Every mechanism was derived from game analysis, decisions were validated through controlled testing, and advanced control systems such as color-based indexing, magnet-based absolute homing, and trajectory-based path planning were implemented. Winning Think 1st reflects the countless hours our team invested in design reviews, subsystem architecture, control theory, and iterative improvement. We are incredibly proud of the engineering rigor our team demonstrated and excited to continue refining and competing at the next level.
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Interested in supporting future STEM innovators? We are always looking for passionate sponsors!