Welcome to the 2008 Gearheads Website!

Welcome! We are FIRST FRC Team 1189, the Gearheads. We’re a joint FIRST FRC team hailing from Grosse Pointe South and Grosse Pointe North located in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To navigate this site, please direct your attention to the menu on the left side of the screen. There you will find various links with information concerning FIRST, our team, and our many unique qualities. Toward the top of the page you will find links to the FIRST website, our Forums, Photo Gallery, Gearheads Crossing site, and our Blog. Thanks for checking us out, and have a nice day!

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Our Mission- Grosse Pointe Gearheads' mission is to provide an environment where students build the science, engineering and life skills to become capable, confident leaders in science, mathematics, engineering, business and communications through successful participation in FIRST robotics competitions.

2008 Competitions- This year, Team 1189 will be attending the Pittsburgh and Great Lakes Regional Competitions.
  • Pittsburgh Regional – March 13-15, 2008
    • The Gearheads have returned from Pittsburgh proud of our accomplishments. In addition to making it all the way to the semi-finals with the assistance of our alliance partners 573 & 2407 we were the recipients of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award. Our congratulations go out to the Regional Champion Alliance of 337, 357, and 2614 as well as to Chairman’s award recipient 291.
  • Great Lakes Regional – March 27-29, 2008
    • The Gearheads would like to thank everyone that came out and supported us in Ypsilanti; we hope you had as much fun as we did. After several years of trying the Gearheads have finally come home with the Imagery Award from Great Lakes. It is wonderful to have set a goal and met it successfully. Our congratulations go out to the Regional Champion Alliance of 67, 503, and 326 as well as Chairman’s Award recipient 68.

Gearhead Crossing (GHX)- This unique project, first introduced 2 years ago, is back with a new update. Now other teams will be able to make accurate decisions based on information gathered by our scouts, and the new sort feature developed to allow teams to select only the aspects that apply to their needs. This service is available to anyone that wants or needs it.