OCCRA

Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association
Current season, competition or edition:; OCCRA Pit Stop
Sport	Robotics-related games
Founded	June 2000 in Oakland County, MI
No. of teams	16
Most recent; champion(s)	Teams 7692 and 6977
Official website	https://juggernautsteam1.com/topic6.html
Locations
	Map of Oakland County in Michigan

The Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association (OCCRA; /ˈoʊkrə/) is an organized competition among robotics teams of around 20 different high schools in Oakland County, Michigan. It was established in June, 2000 and takes place each fall, beginning in early September and ending in early December.

OCCRA vs. FIRST Robotics Competition

Although OCCRA draws heavily from the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), OCCRA differs from FRC in several key ways. Firstly, the student members of the robotics teams are expected to design and build the robots without direct assistance from their adult mentors. This gives students more responsibility and allows them to develop leadership skills.

In OCCRA, teams are also forbidden from having corporate sponsorships. Each team is responsible for raising its own money to promote teamwork and to teach students to work within a budget. The league as a whole has corporate sponsors.

Furthermore, "heavy machinery" is restricted. Lathes and other types of precision machinery are not to be used in the construction of OCCRA-bound robots. Instead, students build their robots with rulers, hacksaws, and cordless drills. This rule is intended to ensure equality among teams with varying resources (e.g. having a machine shop in the team's high school or in a team member's garage).

One key way in which OCCRA does emulate FRC is that OCCRA maintains a policy of gracious professionalism.

Teams

Over the years, there have been over 30 teams that have competed in OCCRA. Most of them are FRC teams, although there have been several OCCRA-only teams in the past. In addition, there have also been several teams that had started out as OCCRA teams before joining FRC.

Current OCCRA Teams

Below is a list of the teams currently competing in OCCRA as of 2023:

Team 2 - Pandamoniun
Team 3 (4737 in FRC) - AtomiGators
Team 33 - Killer Bees
Team 51 - Wings of Fire
Team 308 - Monsters
Team 573 - Mech Warriors
Team 915 - Eagles
Team 2137 - The Oxford RoboCats
Team 2960 - Automation Nation
Team 3098 (previously Team 97) - Waterford Robotics
Team 5053 - Lakers
Team 7178 - Yeti
Team 7553 (previously Team 123) - OSTC Sweetbots
Team 7692 - Beach Bums
Team 7769 (previously Team 111) - The CREW (AM)
Team 6977 - The CREW (PM)

Previous OCCRA Teams

Below is a list of teams that have competed in OCCRA in previous years:

Team 1 - Juggernauts
Team 9 - St. Mary's Preparatory
Team 47 - Chief Delphi
Team 62 - Birmingham Groves High School
Team 65 - The Huskie Brigade
Team 67 - The HOT Team
Team 245 - Adambots
Team 255 - Lamphere High School
Team 302 - The Dragons
Team 469 - Las Guerrillas
Team 802 - Robo Knights
Team 803 - More Monsters
Team 1188 - Ravens
Team 1213 - GROVES
Team 1346 - University High School
Team 3538 - RoboJackets
Team 4384 - Benzene Bots

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