Team 2791 Latham, NY
Our Mission
Founded in the spring of 2008, Team 2791 has grown from just two students and two mentors to an organization of nearly 100 students and 11 mentors. Based at Shaker High School in the North Colonie Central School District, we strive to inspire a diverse group of young people to become the next generation of critical thinkers, innovators, and leaders in STEAM.
2026 Season Snapshot
Shaker Robotics is coming off a powerful showing in the 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition season. With an official record of 10-8-0 and an overall record of 16-13-0, the team continues to push the boundaries of student-led engineering
- Hudson Valley Regional: Innovation in Control Award winner
- NY Tech Valley Regional: Ranked #22 with a 5-3-0 qualifying record
- BattleCry at WPI: Alliance 1 (Alliance Captain 88) Event Winner
Every year we design, fabricate, and program 125lb robots in a high-stakes 6-8 week build season
- This Year’s Robot: Code for our 2026 robot and our “Junk Drawer” KitBot is available at https://github.com/Team2791/Protein-2026 and https://github.com/Team2791/JunkDrawer-KitBot2026.
- Open Source: We are proud to share our work at https://github.com/Team2791/. Check out our 22 active repositories on GitHub, featuring our advanced robot code written primarily in Java.