About Brunswick Eruption
Brunswick Eruption was started in 2002 mainly to get FIRST teams active in the region. Our goals still remain the same. Usually over 35 teams from all over the Northeast participate.The Brunswick Eruption Off-Season competition is a replay of the FIRST 2008 OVERDRIVE game. The goal of the FIRST Robotics Competition is to get students involved in fields of science and engineering by participating in robotics competitions.
RINOS and Pre-Rookies: RINOS or Rookies In Need Of Support is a program started by team 25. RINOS pairs up rookie teams with experienced veteran teams in order to help them through their first season.
This radical new concept evolved when a team from Baldwin, NY participated in Brunswick Eruption in 2004. They came to Brunswick Eruption before they were an official FIRST team by borrowing a neighboring team's robot. After seeing this, we thought that this is the best way to go ahead and start new teams because they will be experienced and excited before their first season. Since then, we have been re-fitting old robots to play the current game and letting pre-rookie teams compete with them. We also encourage all veteran teams capable of doing so to do so.
For more information on RINOS, please click here.