community

The Hub & Outreach

The software we built to run ourselves, the practice field we share with neighboring teams, and the programs that bring STEM to our whole district.

The Hub

Software We Built Ourselves

Our own task-and-scouting platform — now something other teams want to remix too.

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Practice Field

The Parr Lumber Field

A 60%-scale FRC field for drive and autonomous practice, open to the teams around us.

See the field ↓
outreach

Bringing STEM to a 4,000-student district.

A core part of our mission is making engineering careers feel reachable across our whole school district — not just inside our own pit. Tap any program card for the full story.

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Sandy Grade STEM Night

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Elementary students raced FTC-parts robots, met P.E.T.E. — our robot dog, donated by GenPac — and got a hands-on look at our swerve drivetrain. It's a first taste of robotics for kids who've never had one.

Elementary students trying robotics at Sandy Grade STEM Night
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Semi-Annual HS/MS Tournament

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Twice a year we host an FTC classpack tournament for Sandy High, Boring, and Cedar Ridge middle schools — 20 to 26 teams a term, ending in alliance picks and a playoff bracket. PioBytes members run it start to finish as referees, announcers, and field crew, giving students new to robotics a real taste of coopetition and FIRST.

Teams competing at the semi-annual HS/MS FTC tournament
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Library Partnership

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Working with our community library on public STEM events — starting with Children's Day, where our Business department head walked visitors through our robots and let kids drive our FTC outreach bots. The library is a hub for the whole town, so it's the first of many events we plan to run there.

PioBytes members demonstrating robots at the community library
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LEGO Summer School

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We mentor LEGO robotics as part of the Oregon Trail School District's Summer Academy, introducing younger students to engineering fundamentals through hands-on builds guided by our members.

Photos coming soon
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Mt. Hood Mountain Festival

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A parade float built around UPLOAD, introducing the team to the wider community and recognizing our sponsors' contributions to the city.

The PioBytes parade float at the Mt. Hood Mountain Festival
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Middle School Mentorship

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Direct, hands-on mentorship for middle school robotics programs from our own members — teaching skills and easing workload for teachers who support robotics without an engineering background of their own.

PioBytes members mentoring middle school robotics students
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NW Math Conference

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CPO Finley and Coach Duell are presenting on robotics as a hands-on, constructivist approach to math — from understanding distance in kindergarten to gearing ratios and PID controllers — and bringing UPLOAD along as a live example. Presenting October 2026.

Photos coming soon
the-hub

We outgrew our task boards, so we built software instead.

Physical scrum boards didn't survive contact with a real season — nobody could update them outside of class. So Software built The Hub: one site that replaced the boards, then kept absorbing everything else the team needed to track.

The Hub dashboard, showing task boards, team announcements, and notifications
The Hub home view — active tasks, announcements, and team velocity at a glance.
Home

Your current tasks, team announcements, upcoming events, and "velocity" — how much work the team is actually getting done.

War Room

Every highlighted board in one scrolling view, so anyone can find an open task or spot what's blocked.

Boards

Create tasks, assign them, comment, and update status — the core of day-to-day project tracking.

Time

Logs shop and competition hours against the minimum required to travel to events.

Event / Scouting

Match schedules, queuing, and scouting data our members gather on other teams' robots.

Team

Every member sorted by department, so coaches and captains can see who's contributing — and who needs support.

Safety

Tool certifications — who's trained, who's waiting, and who can train the next person.

Calendar · Resources

Shop times, competitions, and volunteer events, plus links like The Blue Alliance and other teams' documentation.

What's next

Packaging The Hub for other teams

The Hub is customizable enough to run an FTC team with small changes, so we're preparing a version other programs can remix on Replit and configure for themselves. We're rolling it out after Championship.

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practice-field

The Parr Lumber Field

A 60%-scale FRC field for drive and autonomous practice, open to the teams around us.

The Parr Lumber practice field, a 60%-scale FRC field with donated carpet
The Parr Lumber Field — 60% scale, carpeted to match real FRC footing.

Modeled in Fusion 360 by our Modeling department, then cut and built to spec by Mechanical. donated the material in-kind in exchange for a sponsorship placement and naming rights; Sandy Decor later donated carpet so the field would replicate real FRC footing. We've opened it up to neighboring teams 10444 Ursa Major and 6696 Cardinal Dynamics for autonomous testing and drive practice — and there's room for more.

Book time on the field Contact Kevin Frank to schedule a practice slot: Kevin.Frank@ortrail.k12.or.us
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