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Welcome to GEARS!

GEARS is a community center focused on STEM education through the hosting of robotics teams. We host students in grades 4 through 12 in FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge programs. Students design, build, and program a robot to compete in a unique challenge each season. We have hosted thousands of students in the last eight years and look forward to hosting many more.


First Lego League with Northern Indiana Robotics
Northern Indiana's Premier Robotics Community Center
First Tech Challenge with Northern Indiana Robotics

GEARS News and Updates

  • CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES!

    In early August, we began renovating a 7,000 sqft  building in Osceola. A group of tradesman have donated time and talents along side our families and teammates to create this new robotics hub for the Michiana community. While the renovation will take several months to complete, it hasn’t kept our FLL and FTC teams from…

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  • GEARS Iterations

    The FIRST Core Values are: Discovery, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, Teamwork and Fun. Over the last 8 years, GEARS has not only taught team members these values, but we have adopted them as our own guiding principles.These Core Values encourage students to be open to new ideas, learn to work together and to be persistent when…

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