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COYOTRONICS

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2025 PLANO DISTRICT WINNERS★ 150+ MEMBERS★ 12 SCHOOLS★ 4 ROBOTICS PROGRAMS★ STEM FOR ALL★ 2025 PLANO DISTRICT WINNERS★ 150+ MEMBERS★ 12 SCHOOLS★ 4 ROBOTICS PROGRAMS★ STEM FOR ALL★
Coyotronics team winning the 2025 Plano District event ★ PLANO DISTRICT WINNERS 2025
who we are

Built by students.
Powered by purpose.

Coyotronics is FRC Team 8816 — a student-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit robotics organization out of Frisco, Texas. What started at a single school has grown into a district-wide CTE program uniting 150+ members from all 12 Frisco ISD high schools.

We design, build, and code competition robots — but our real mission is the pipeline: mentoring elementary, middle, and high school students into the next generation of engineers, programmers, and leaders.

by the numbers

Growth, scale & impact

Active members across the org
New members joined this season — record high
Frisco ISD high schools represented
Robotics teams & programs supported
Days mentoring FLL Team Geobots
Local businesses contacted
Professors reached for outreach
Universities reached
Teams at our YASS programming workshops
Avg. hours / week per member
Students in the global FIRST community
Countries represented in FIRST
the divisions

Five crews. One robot.

Every season runs on five sub-teams working in sync — from raw aluminum to thousands of lines of code to the outreach that fuels it all.

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Mechanical

Designs and fabricates the robot's drivetrain, mechanisms, and structure — machining, laser cutting, 3D printing, and assembly under real competition deadlines.

CAD · MANUFACTURING · ASSEMBLY
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Electrical

Wires the robot to life — power distribution, motor controllers, sensors, and pneumatics, plus PID tuning and the electrical architecture that keeps every system talking.

WIRING · SENSORS · POWER
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Programming

Writes thousands of lines of student code — a progressive curriculum from simple mechanisms to full drivetrains, plus weekly FRC programming education for 20+ outside teams.

JAVA · CONTROLS · AUTONOMOUS
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Business

Keeps the team funded and the story told — sponsorships, fundraising, branding, finances, and media that power every season.

SPONSORS · FUNDRAISING · MEDIA
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Outreach

Brings robotics to the community — mentoring FLL & FTC teams, running YASS programming workshops for 20+ teams, reaching 130+ businesses and 150+ professors, and leading the women-led STEMing Change initiative.

COMMUNITY · MENTORSHIP · STEM FOR ALL
first turn-on

See us in action

The moment 8816 came to life — our minimum viable product, powered up for the very first time.

★ ROBOT 8816 · FIRST POWER-UP ★