FIRST Robotics Competition · Team 1661
Griffitrons 1661
We’re a student-run FRC team at The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA. We design, build and program a new robot every year.
Who we are
About the team
Team 1661 is a FIRST Robotics Competition team located at The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA. We’ve been competing in FRC since our team’s inception in 2005 and have won multiple competition awards over the years.
Our team typically consists of 15–30 members, and we are working to expand both the team and our efforts to promote STEAM education in our school and local community.
We start working in the summer for the spring competition. The team has four areas: Manufacturing, Media, CAD and Programming.
How to join
Video
Meet the Griffitrons
The team
What we do
Build robots
Every season we design, machine and wire a new robot from scratch.
Our robots → 02Compete
We compete every spring. Most recently we won the Creativity Award at the 2026 Ventura District event.
Our awards → 03Outreach
We help get more people at Buckley and around LA into STEAM.
Outreach → 04Sponsors
Our sponsors pay for a lot of what we build. Here’s who they are.
Sponsors →Robots
Our recent robots
A few of them here. The robots page has the rest, including this year’s.
Latest award
Creativity Award
In 2026 the Griffitrons won the Creativity Award at the Ventura District FIRST Robotics Competition. Buckley wrote about it, too.
Read Buckley’s story See every awardSponsors
Thank you to our sponsors
Their parts, cutting and support are a big part of how our robots get built.
Socials
Follow us
Photos and videos from the robotics room and from competitions.
Want to join?
If you go to Buckley, come by the robotics room after school. We’ll find something for you to work on.