Bovine Intervention

FIRST Robotics Team 686


*  25 Years  *


Bovine Intervention is a Robotics Team located in Frederick, Maryland. Our robot design, build, and test lab is at the Mount St. Mary's University Frederick Campus. 

Our Robotics Team participates in the annual FIRST Robotics Competitions.

As a community robotics program, we consist of student members from many high schools in the Frederick County and beyond. Most of the students come from Walkersville, Linganore, Oakdale, Catoctin and Brunswick High Schools while some from private and at home.

High School Students 

( Public, Private, at Home )

Students learn:

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Announcements

***** Welcome to 2025. Team 686 Robotics is now entering into their 25th FIRST Robotics Competition season. A lot of history and accomplishments. A new page to our website will be created to capture the 25 years of Team 686 Robotics inspiring STEM in Frederick County, Maryland. On June 5th 2025, Team 686 will be hosting a special celebration event to mark the 25 years. Details will follow soon.


***** FIRST Robotics Competition 2025 Season Kickoff was on January 4th, Saturday. Team 686 Bovine Intervention is now in the robot design and prototype phase. During the next 6 weeks the team will be busy building, programming, and testing their new robot. See the Events tab for details about each competitions that Team 686 will be participating in.


***** Team 686 Bovine Intervention will be conducting a VEX IQ Robotics Summer STEM Camp geared to Middle School students. This camp will be held at Mount St. Mary's University Frederick Campus on Monday, June 23rd through Friday, June 27th, 2025 from 4pm to 6pm. Registration information link will be added to this website soon. You can email Team 686 to be on a list to get the latest information about the camp and registration link. Email: contact@bovineintervention.org


If you have any questions about the robotics program or like to visit the team workspace please to contact us. 

Our Team meetings are in the evenings and the robot build and test lab workspace is at Mount St. Mary's University (MSMU) Frederick Campus, Frederick, Maryland. A great central location for high school students (public, private, and at home) from across Frederick County and beyond.

Our year is in two parts: 

Part one is from (January - April) FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Season from the FRC season kickoff event in January with the start of a design, build, test of a new robot to our FIRST Chesapeake District robot competitions in March and with success to the District Championship and FIRST Championship "Worlds" in April. 

Part two is from (May - December) serving as our Training Season. The Training Season is the perfect time to join the team and gain the experience and preparations for participating in the FRC Season. Along with the training, from May to the end of December there are many activities in the community to off-season robotics competition events that we participate in.