Here’s a look at some of our past, present, and future appearances in the community. Please feel free to contact us with any questions!
Collaboration with Cedarburg School District’s “Building For The Future”:
Team 3197’s collaboration with Cedarburg School District began three years ago in the form of team member interviews, mentor planning and activism, and sponsor advice for new facilities, resources, and curriculum relating to STEM, engineering, and robotics in our community’s schools. HexHound mentors, team members, parents, sponsors, and teachers were heavily involved in CSD’s referendum that took place in November 2018, and having been passed by voters, this district-wide update is now in the planning and implementation stages. HexHound involvement currently ranges from sponsor representatives, team members, and mentors who are a part of the district’s STEM Advisory Team to presentations by the HexHounds to other planning committees. Additional information on Cedarburg School District’s plan to implement new STEM facilities, resources, and curriculum can be found here.





Rockwell Automation On the Move Show:
In May 2018, the HexHounds were invited to our sponsor Rockwell Automation’s On the Move Show to demo our robots, collaborate with other teams, and promote FIRST. We took part in Rockwell’s Facebook Live to explain the 2018 FRC build challenge and how our robot worked.


#LIVE at Rockwell Automation on the Move!! Highlighting new features in our PowerFlex line of drives. And!! Here with FIRST robotics WORLD championship qualifiers @CHSrobotics3197 and @robotigers !!! #raotm
Posted by Rockwell Automation, Inc. on Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Quick video of both bots climbing.
Posted by Cedarburg High School Robotics – Team 3197 – Hexhounds on Thursday, May 17, 2018
Wayne’s Give Back Night:
The HexHounds partner annually with Wayne’s Drive-In, a local community business, to fundraise and demo our robots to the restaurant’s patrons. We help our FLL teams to show their robots as well.


Newman’s Chevrolet Car Raffle:
During the summer and fall of 2018, the HexHounds sold tickets to raffle off a car in conjunction with Newman’s Chevrolet. We sold over one thousand tickets in the course of three months at events in many locations, including bowling alleys, weekly music concerts, local festivals and more. Although we were unable to sell enough tickets to raffle off the car, we were able to gift one lucky winner over $3,000 and had ten other cash prize winners besides the grand prize winner.
Posted by Cedarburg High School Robotics – Team 3197 – Hexhounds on Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Summer Enrichment Academy Volunteering:
Members of the team volunteer at the Summer Program through the Cedarburg School District at Webster Transitional School. There are multiple entry level robotics classes that we volunteer at and help young inspired students. Mr. Kniess, our coach and a district PLTW teacher, mentors these classes during the summer, widening the connections to the community through the club. The classes typically run mid-June as well as early-July.

Some of the hexhounds made a mecanum clawbot during summer academy to show younger students about mecanum drive.
Posted by Cedarburg High School Robotics – Team 3197 – Hexhounds on Thursday, July 20, 2017

Festivals of Cedarburg:
Our team takes on a very busy challenge of staffing a food booth through Cedarburg Festivals as a fundraiser. We work at both Strawberry Festival in late-June, Wine and Harvest Festival in mid-September, and OktoberFest in October. These offer weekends worth of community exposure to an international audience. Our robot, sponsor banner, and FIRST’s logo are shown to over one hundred thousand people during these festivals.






Pancake Breakfast at Cedarburg Winter Festival:
Additionally, the Cedarburg Robotics Team hosts the annual Pancake Breakfast during the Cedarburg Winter Festival. Held each year during mid-February, the Pancake Breakfast remains one of our team’s biggest fundraisers. At this event we connect with families and first responders to expand our connection to the Cedarburg community. The Pancake Breakfast is also attended by our FLL teams and reported on by local media. Thank you to the following Cedarburg/Grafton businesses for their generous donations:
- Festivals of Cedarburg
- Costco
- Downtown Dough
- From Scratch Catering
- Kemps
- McDonald’s
- Olson’s Piggly Wiggly
- The Cedarburg Coffee Roastery







Grafton FIRST Lego League Expo:
Team 3197 is the centerpiece of the Grafton FLL Expo held every April at Kennedy Elementary School in Grafton, Wisconsin. For the past three years, we have shown our robots and inspired the younger generation to pursue robotics both at their level through FLL and FLL Jr., but also give them a goal to pursue for their future in high school upon discovering our robots.

Had a blast at the Grafton Elementary Lego Expo today. Thanks so much for the invitation.
Posted by Cedarburg High School Robotics – Team 3197 – Hexhounds on Saturday, April 14, 2018

Homecoming Parade and Football Game:
The team participates in the Cedarburg High School Homecoming parade, which goes through downtown Cedarburg. The Hexhounds lead the way in school spirit through traditional float-building activities and showcase their robotic and artistic skills. We use our T-shirt robot, a redesigned and repurposed FIRST robot, to shoot team T-shirts during the Homecoming parade and football game.




Presentations to High School, Youth, and Community Groups:
The HexHounds have presented to Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the American Legion, the Rotary Club, and the Lions Club to extend STEM to the Cedarburg community. The HexHounds also demo our robots and speak with high school students at Cedarburg School District’s Freshmen Preview Night and Open House. This allows prospective students to gain more information about our team. The HexHounds also host an Information Night prior to the preseason every October to explain FIRST, FRC, and Team 3197 to students who wish to join our team.






