Team Star-TREC

FIRST—For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

About Us / History

Star-TREC is the TEC@LCC (The Early College at Lansing Community College) FIRST® Robotics team. Otherwise known as Team 4294, Star-TREC seeks to impact their team members, as well as the community, by cultivating important skills in engineering, programming, public relations and marketing, teamwork, and leadership through the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®).

Star-Trec Team Members

Star-TREC (Star for LCC's mascot and The Robotics Early College) was founded on January 4th, 2012, exactly three days before the 2012 FRC kick-off, with only 7 team members. Helped in their rookie year by the Desperate Penguins team from Okemos, and mentors from LCC's main and west campuses, the team won their first district event at Kettering University, and eventually qualified for the State Championship in Ypsilanti and World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. In their second season, 2013, they traveled to three state district events, winning two awards for excellent engineering of a mechanism used to pull their 120 pound robot up a steel pyramid.

The team hopes that through the wonderful experience of FIRST Robotics, they can inspire students to participate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and introduce them to real-world application of those subjects.