Milken Knights

About Us

Since our inception in 2006, the Milken Knights is a team built upon the shoulders of motivated students at Milken Community High School. We have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of furthering our knowledge in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, animation, and programming. Our team has grown significantly since the beginning and while all of our original team has graduated, our current members are standing strong. But our team lives on with new leaders and new points of view. Recently, we have expanded our interests into public relations and business. Our team is comprised of approximately 25 members, and we treat each one as family. We welcome all who have a passion to learn and a commitment to the team, and regard one another with the utmost respect. We have a history rich with great successes and many learned lessons, as well as numerous memories and great adventures spanning the Earth. Our team has traveled from Long Beach, California to Atlanta, Georgia to Tel Aviv, Israel, and Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. We also try to apply our Jewish values not only to the way we conduct ourselves within the team, but also in our everyday lives. Our goals for the upcoming years are to stimulate students to pursue their interests in challenging competitions such as the FIRST Robotics Competition. 

We are FRC team 1836 from Milken Community High School in Los Angeles. We are a part of and receive funding from the Mitchell Academy of Science and Technology at Milken Community High School; additionally we receive funding from the Leslie Sheldon Zola Science Scholarship Fund and the media studies department. This year we are making history by being one of the first American teams to compete in the Israeli FIRST robotics competition regional. After competing in Israel we will compete in Los Angeles.

Our team is unique because of the fact that we are entirely student run, mentors are allowed to suggest ideas however they never have the final say. We also mentor and run a lego robotics team at our middle school. To find out more about us please see our team news, view pictures from our current build season, or read about our current community involvement. 

ABOUT FIRST

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. FIRST runs the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), FIRST Lego League (FLL), and Jr. FIRST Lego League (Jr. FLL). The MilkenKnights (FRC team 1836) enter FRC and mentor FLL teams. To find out more about FIRST go the the FIRST website.