Three weeks, One completely new robot. One trip to Houston. And somehow, we ended up on Einstein.
That wasn’t exactly the plan when we started the 2026 season.
But then again, some of the best robotics stories don’t go according to plan.
It Started With Blitz
And by then, we knew a lot more about the game.
We had a choice: keep trying to fix Blitz…
…or build something completely different.
So we did the scary thing.
We started over.
Three Weeks to Build a New Robot
We had three weeks.
Not three weeks to tweak a design.
Not three weeks to make a few upgrades.
Three weeks to rebuild the robot from the wheels up.
Meet Re•Blitz.
The new robot was built around everything we’d learned from those first two competitions. It was stronger, more robust and designed to handle aggressive defense while delivering the scoring performance we needed.
We arrived at the PNW District Championship with a robot that barely existed three weeks earlier.
And then we put it on the field.
Re•Blitz Was Ready
At PNW Champs, everything started clicking.
As Engineering Officer Kylie Liu said at the district championship:
“We’re here with a new robot, we’re excited, we’re hype, we never lost motivation, and I’m just very proud that our team was able to do that.”
That pretty much says it all.
We didn’t give up on the season.
We rebuilt it.
Houston, We Have a Robot
Then came Houston.
The FIRST® Championship brings together the best teams from around the world, and we knew the competition would be intense.
At then end of Quals, we were the No. 1 seed, and captained the alliance alongside Team 2046 Bear Metal, Team 868 TechHOUNDS and Team 4206 Robo Vikes.
And Re•Blitz showed up.
Our alliance came out on top as Newton Division Champions.
That meant one more thing:
Einstein.
The Einstein Field is where the eight division champions come together to battle for the World Championship.
We had gone from rebuilding our entire robot in three weeks to playing on the biggest stage in FIRST.
And we weren’t done yet.
One More Fight
On Einstein, every match mattered.
Our alliance battled through the playoffs and kept advancing until we reached the World Championship Finals.
Read that again.
Team 2910 was playing in the Einstein Finals.
The season that started with a robot that wasn’t quite working had ended with us competing for the World Championship in front of thousands of people in Houston—and alongside some of the best teams in the world.
We finished the championship as World Championship Finalists.
Second in the world.
Not bad for a robot that debuted only a few weeks earlier.
The Real Win
The finalist win is amazing. Getting to play on Einstein is something we’ll never forget.
But when we look back at this season, we think we’ll remember something else, too.
We’ll remember the moment we realized Blitz wasn’t going to get us where we wanted to go.
We’ll remember deciding to start over.
We’ll remember the late nights, the redesigns, the parts that didn’t fit, the mechanisms that didn’t work the first time, the constant questions of “Can we actually get this done?”
And we’ll remember answering that question with:
Then build it better.
This season, we didn’t just rebuild a robot.
We proved what our team can do when we refuse to give up.
From Blitz to Re•Blitz.
From a three-week rebuild to the Newton Championship.
From Newton to Einstein.
Team 2910 is a 2026 World Championship Finalist.
And we couldn’t be prouder of the students, mentors, coaches, volunteers, families and supporters who made this journey possible.
We built it. We rebuilt it. We took it to Einstein.
Let’s go, Jack in the Bot!
