FIRST Team #1389, “The Body Electric,” is the Walt Whitman High School robotics team, based in Bethesda, Maryland. The team functions as a Walt Whitman High School Club and is open to participation by all students.
Team 1389 is a student-led team. Adult teachers, parents, and other mentors provide coaching, guidance, and logistical support to create an environment in which students organize themselves into a problem-solving team able to design, build, compete, learn, and have fun!
The team engages in robotics activities year-round.
Fall: The team recruits new students, raises funds, and does training and team-building.
Winter: In January the team works intensively in a six-week “build season” to design, build, program, test and troubleshoot a robot to enter in the FIRST Robotics competition.
Spring: The team enters one or more FIRST regional tournaments, usually including the Washington, DC Regional and Chesapeake Regional tournaments. After tournaments the team begins