FRC Team 11195 · O'Fallon, Illinois

VOLT: Completing the Pathway

An all-girls rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team, grown from two championship FTC programs. We give girls a way to go from the library to the competition field, and on into a STEM career.

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Rookie FRC Awards
2,088
Outreach Hours (25–26)
15
Students · 7 Schools
100%
Seniors Into STEM
Who We Are

One team, built from two.

VOLT, FRC Team 11195, grew from the combined work of two all-girls FTC programs: Polytechnic Puzzle Pieces (#16751) and Gear Girls (#23469). Their students and mentors came with them. So did years of built-up outreach and community trust. Now they move as one team, with one purpose: give girls a way through FIRST and into STEM leadership.

Our pipeline ran all the way through FTC, then it stopped. A NASA grant changed that. Now a girl who drives a robot at the public library has an FRC team waiting for her at the end of the road.

VOLT team at FIRST in Missouri
The Pathway

A complete ladder into STEM

In O'Fallon, a lot of girls first meet robotics at the public library or a Girl Scout badge activity. She drives a demo robot once, and from that moment on we give her somewhere to go next.

Library & Scouts
STEM Club, camps, and demos where families already gather
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FLL
Rookie FIRST LEGO League teams we found and coach
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FTC
Two award-winning all-girls FTC teams
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FRC
VOLT 11195, the final step, now open
How We Work

Student-led subteams

Mentors guide, but students run things. Our roster splits into student-led subteams across every discipline of an FRC team, from Robot Build to Business.

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Mechanical & Build

Design and CAD in Onshape, fabrication, assembly, and maintenance. We build a reliable robot on a proven starter-bot foundation.

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Electrical

Wiring, controls, and instrumentation, learned alongside licensed IBEW electricians and industry mentors.

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Software

Robot control systems and programming, mentored by professional software developers from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force.

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Business & Outreach

Outreach, documentation, scouting, safety, media, and project management. This is the engine behind everything we do in the community.

VOLT wins the Judges' Award at Greater Kansas City
Rookie Season

Not starting from zero.

In our rookie FRC season, VOLT won the Judges' Award at the Greater Kansas City Regional and the Rookie All Star Award at the St. Louis Regional. For a first-year team, those results came from more than the robot. They came from years of outreach, student leadership, and community work that walked into FRC with us.

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Questions

The basics

What is FRC?

The FIRST Robotics Competition is the highest level of the FIRST program, where high-school teams design, build, and drive industrial-scale robots in a new game each season.

Who can join VOLT?

VOLT is an all-girls team built from students across seven schools in the O'Fallon, IL area. Girls come to us through our FLL and FTC pipeline, or directly. No experience required.

Are you affiliated with a school?

No. We're a community-based team affiliated with Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, kept running by grants, sponsors, and community partners.

How can I support the team?

We welcome sponsors, mentors, and community partners. Visit our Partners page or get in touch.