Offseason & Preseason
Before the game drops, we recruit new members, train on tools, CAD, and code, run fundraising and outreach, and prototype ideas so the team is ready to move on day one.
Team PLUSH — FRC 11740, a student-run FIRST Robotics Competition team in Ottawa, Ontario
PLUSH
live ✦ laugh ✦ love ✦ robotics
100% Student-Led Community Team | Est. April 2026
Rookie
year
≈45
members
🏆 Goal
Rookie All-Star
∞
Jolliness
🐱
Pal
🐰
Xaivian
🐻
Stuffing
founders' mission
Ambitious missions always begin with a simple idea.
For Team PLUSH, it began with three high school students who believed that STEM could be more than just innovation, but rather a secondary home where young engineers feel welcomed, supported, and inspired one day at a time. Team PLUSH will ALWAYS operate on a student-led basis, with our oldest mentor being 18 years of age.
meet the mascots
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season plans
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September–December · Offseason -
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January · Kickoff Kickoff & Strategy
The season opens with FIRST's global game reveal. We read the manual together, break down the field, and decide what kind of robot a rookie PLUSH team can build well.
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Weeks 1–2 · Design Design & Prototype
CAD in Onshape, cardboard-and-wood prototypes, and fast tests. We lock in a design that is simple enough to finish and sturdy enough to compete.
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Weeks 3–6 · Build Build & Program
Fabrication, wiring, and code come together on one robot. Drive practice starts the minute it can move, and every subsystem gets tested until it breaks.
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March · Districts District Competitions
Our first competitions: qualification matches, pit repairs between rounds, scouting alliance partners, and earning the ranking points that decide who advances.
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April · Provincials (if qualified) Ontario Provincial Championship
The top district teams meet for the provincial title in front of a crowd of thousands, with a shot at qualifying for the FIRST Championship.
no experience needed
come build
come build
with us
We meet every week. We eat snacks. We argue about the best way to attach a gear — and somehow it always works out.
what's... Team Plush?
Team PLUSH is a community FIRST Robotics Competition team, assembled from a group of passionate high school students building a functioning robot in under three months.
Our philosophy is to empower students to design, build, and test physical hardware without judgement, with mentorship from industry professionals.
As a student-founded team in Ottawa, Team PLUSH is pioneering locally in Canada's Capital, leaving a trail of future engineers for years to come. :)
our sub-teams
Software
Java robot code, vision with Limelight, path planning with PathPlanner, and driver
dashboards.
Mechanical
CAD in Onshape, fabrication with CNC router and lathe, intake systems, shooter
mechanisms.
Business & Outreach
Sponsorship decks, community demos, social media, branding, and elementary school
workshops.
Drive Team
Two drivers, one human player, one coach — all running on positive vibes :)
2026
founded
april 2026
april 2026
3
high-school
co-founders
co-founders
4
sub-teams, software
to scouting
to scouting
🌱
regional impact
to ottawa
to ottawa
≈45
member goal
our journey
Apr 2026
Team Founded
Three ambitious high-school students co-founded Team PLUSH to expand the FIRST
community in the Greater Ottawa region.
Summer 2026
Building the Team
Managing logistics and our legal entity, onboarding mentors, talking with
sponsors, and planning out our offseason robot, Droplet.
Fall 2026
Preseason
Publicly recruiting members, running elementary and middle-school STEM
workshops, and planning Makers Making Change projects.
Jan 2027
Rookie Season
Building the robot for the 2027 season and competing at events across Ontario —
and, if we qualify, at the Ontario Provincial Championship.
Co-Captains
Eason Yang
co-captain
fun fact
He loves watching F1 and yapping in the FIRST Canada Community :)
Sarmistha Pal
co-captain
Alvin Ren
co-captain
Leads
📣
Olivia Shen
business lead
Dorothy Zhou
business lead
fun fact
In my free time, I like learning how to play different musical instruments!
📣
Anthony Cui
business lead
Sean Nie
software lead
fun fact
I love K-dramas and C-dramas!
💻
TBD
software lead
💻
TBD
software lead
🔧
TBD
mechanical lead
🔧
TBD
mechanical lead
🔧
TBD
mechanical lead
🔧
TBD
mechanical lead
Members
Varun Gokul
software
fun fact
I'm a Grade 12 student who loves meeting people, making friends, and learning new things!
Abigail Martin
mechanical
fun fact
I've played tennis since I was six years old!
📣
Business
TBD
💻
Software
TBD
🔧
Mechanical
TBD
Mentors
Ryan Zhao
First Year University · FRC Alumni
fun fact
I'm an FRC alum, currently at Carleton University for Computer Systems Engineering.
🎓
Owen Chen
First Year University · FRC Alumni
🎓
Neo Zheng
First Year University · FRC Alumni
Henry Cai
First Year University · FRC Alumni
fun fact
Team 8729 alum, now at Waterloo for Computer Engineering — and I had a 95% shooting percentage as human player for Reefscape.
our robots
Six weeks. Thousands of decisions. One robot. Here's what we're building — and what comes next.
2027 · Season Bot
TBD
Coming Soon in January 2027!!!
🦾 Pneumatic Claw📐 Articulated Arm🧗 Chain Climber👁 Vision Tracking
2026 · Offseason Bot
Droplet
⚡ Swerve Drive📷 Limelight 3🦾 Roller Intake🎯 Auto Aim
the rookie all-star plan
The Rookie All-Star Award is the biggest award a first-year FRC team can win. It goes to the rookie team that's already running like an established one, and the winner moves on to the FIRST Championship. Outside of the robot itself, this is our main goal for the season. Here's the plan.
what judges look for, and what we're doing about it
Sponsor & Mentor Partnerships
support network
We're going for 20 sponsors across six tiers, with industry mentors working directly
with each sub-team. Partners can host a private robot demo at their office.
Community Outreach
spreading FIRST
At least 6 STEM workshops at local elementary and middle schools, plus 2 or more
public robot demos with partners. Most of this happens before our first competition.
Makers Making Change
real-world impact
20 or more assistive-technology builds for people with disabilities. Each one gets
logged and shared back to the Makers Making Change network.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
access & culture
We want a roster that actually looks like Ottawa, so we recruit underrepresented
students into STEM and keep track of how representation changes each year.
Sustainability Plan
long-term plan
A written plan for recruiting, funding, and mentoring so the team keeps going after
the founders graduate. We're aiming for 45 students by 2027.
Robot & FIRST Values
on the field
A working competition robot built in under three months, and a team that treats
other teams well in the pits.
our timeline
Apr–Sep 2026
Team & Sponsor Launch
Release the sponsorship package, lock in founding partners, and finalize FRC 11740
registration.
Oct–Dec 2026
Outreach Plan
First classroom workshops and community demos, Makers Making Change builds begin,
and bi-monthly newsletter #1 goes out.
Jan 2027
Kickoff
Game reveal, design reviews with our mentors, and the start of a build that runs
under three months.
Feb 2027
Build & Document
Weekly build days that sponsors can sit in on. We keep records for the judges:
photos, numbers, and an impact log.
Mar 2027
First Districts
Hand in the Rookie All-Star materials, give the judge presentation, and aim for a
60th-percentile finish.
Apr 2027
Provincials
Winning Rookie All-Star sends us here, in front of 4,000+ people and 30+ Ontario
teams.
what we're tracking
20
founding sponsors
across six tiers
across six tiers
6+
school STEM
workshops
workshops
2+
public robot
demo events
demo events
20+
Makers Making Change
assistive builds
assistive builds
3 🏆
awards targeted
in year one
in year one
🌱 want your logo on a Rookie All-Star robot?
We can't do any of this without founding partners. Email teamplushrobotics@gmail.com, find us at @frc11740, or check out the sponsorship tiers.
2026/27 season
⏱ next competition
🏟 Kickoff — 2026/27 Game Reveal
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hours
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secs
Jan
9
Kickoff — Game reveal
🏠 School Lab · All hands on deck · start of the build season
Mar
🏟
District Competition #1
📍 Ontario District event · 2.5 days of matches
Mar
🏟
District Competition #2
📍 Ontario District event · 2.5 days of matches
Apr
🍁
Provincials — FIRST Ontario Championship
📍 Provincial Championship · if qualified
Apr
🌍
Worlds — FIRST Championship
📍 Houston, TX · if qualified
📅 come watch us compete!
FRC events are free and open to the public. There is nothing quite like watching 150 robots compete in a convention center at full speed. We promise you'll have strong opinions about swerve drive by the end of the day.
what we value
Every season we build a robot, but the most important machine we build is the way we work together. These values keep our team moving forward on and off the field.
team notebook
G
Gracious Professionalism
We compete hard and help harder, treating every team, mentor, and volunteer with
respect — on the field and off.
C
Curious
We ask why as often as how. From software to strategy, every question is an
invitation to learn something new.
O
Optimistic
We believe problems are solvable and setbacks are temporary. A rough build day is
just the start of a good comeback story.
H
Hard-Working
We show up, put in the hours, and finish what we start — 40+ hours in the build
space when the season demands it.
Innovation
If it hasn't been done before, we draw it, CAD it, and build it with confidence.
Community
Our build space is open to everyone, our outreach is year-round, and we celebrate
every local team.
Progress
Small improvements matter. We track them, share them, and high-five them like the
victory they are.
Creativity
We choose ideas that feel unexpected, useful, and a little bit soft — because the best
robots are memorable.
our sponsors
Team PLUSH is a student-founded FRC team in Ottawa on a mission to make hands-on STEM reachable for students who would otherwise never get the chance. Your sponsorship builds a pipeline of young engineers, puts your brand in front of thousands at the Ontario Provincial Championship, and powers the classroom workshops, community demos, and Makers Making Change projects we run all season.
Every tier puts your logo on our website, robot, competition banner, and team merch — and every dollar goes straight into the parts, tools, and students building with them. If you believe in bold, community-first STEM, we would love to talk.
sponsorship package
sponsorship tiers
Pick the level that fits your organization. Further perks can always be worked out over email.
Title Sponsor
$5,000+✨
your logo here
Open
Diamond Sponsor
$2,500–$4,999
Robotics Centre
Argosy Foundation
✨
your logo here
Open
Gold Sponsor
$1,000–$2,499✨
your logo here
Open
Silver Sponsor
$500–$999✨
your logo here
Open
Bronze Sponsor
$300–$499✨
your logo here
Open
In-Kind Sponsor
tools · parts · space · services
Canus Plastics
Our founding in-kind sponsor — supplies plastic stock and fabrication support for
the build.
Sable Metal Fabrication
FRCtees
✨
your logo here
Open
become part of the story
Want your organization listed here? Email teamplushrobotics@gmail.com or find us @frc11740 everywhere. Sponsor Team PLUSH and join a collaborative robotics journey with youth, innovation, and community at its core.
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Last updated: August 28, 2026
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Contact
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· @frc11740
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