HORSEPOWER 4991

Our Mission

To inspire students with real world team building experience in a competitive environment, teaching sportsmanship, social skills, and overall self confidence.

About Horsepower

Horsepower 4991 is a FIRST team that has been competing since 2013, based out of Chartiers Valley High School. Team members and dedicated mentors build, program, and finance a robot to compete against other teams from all over the world. Horsepower 4991 members have a vision and drive to bring the ideals of FIRST to the students in Chartiers Valley School District and to the community at large.

Sponsors

Horsepower is a non-profit organization that relies solely on funding from outside sources. All of the team’s sponsors are greatly appreciated and a huge part of what keeps the team going.

 

Crescendo 2024

Horsepower has less than two months to build, program, and create a strategy surrounding a robot to complete all of the challenges proposed.

For more about our 2024 season

2023 Charged Up Season

The robot design was created to complete the tasks of placing cones and cubes on nodes located at different heights, as well as climbing onto and balancing on a ramp. To earn the maximum amount of points the robot had to be capable of completing these tasks both quickly and efficiently.

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