About Us
About Team 1507, The Warlocks
The Warlocks are a group of students, teachers, parents, and mentors engaged in the competitive robotics competition known as First Robotics Competition or FRC. The FRC program was developed by Dean Kamen, the inventor famous for creating the Segway and a number of other products and is operated by FIRST Inc.
The program is designed to 
engage students, young adults, in an exciting and interesting way, using a sport model for it’s competitive aspect. The underlying goal is to promote creative thinking, problem solving and scientific process and to have them learn in a hands-on environment while working with Mentors from education and industry. A long term goal is to have students go on to study Science and Engineering in post-secondary education and to bring their knowledge into play to benefit their community and society.
Warlocks History
In 2003, the local GM components plant had been sponsoring a number of FIRST teams across the country, including Team 378, The Circuit Stompers, in Newfane NY. As a major sponsor of FIRST, they wanted to start more teams and approached teachers at Lockport High School about forming a team.
It was decided to begin small by inviting several students and teachers to the nearby Newfane team. For two years, a core group of students and teachers participated as part of the Circuit Stompers and had two successful season while learning how a FIRST team works.
In 2005, a team application was processed and we became Team 1507. What had been one team, now was two, both sponsored by GM. We remain close with the Circuit Stompers to this day, often cooperating in activities with them.
In our first year, we came out of the gates full speed, winning Top Rookie honors at a regional in Annapolis, MD and nearly winning the first Fingerlakes Regional at RIT. We attended the Championships in Atlanta and were recognized as a strong Rookie team, but didn’t win it all.
In the seasons since then, we have had our ups and downs, but we’ve never had a really bad year. We have always put out a competitive robot. We’ve won regionals; we’ve won Championship Divisions; and we’ve won many awards recognizing some aspect of our team.
Our real success, though is just beginning to show fruit. Students from past teams have now gone through college, entered careers, are raising families and are productive members of our community. Many are now coming back to the team as Mentors and passing on their experience and enthusiasm.