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OUR
TEAMS.

Capital High School Robotics fields competitive VEX V5RC / RECF teams out of a single build room. Different robots, same standard. Excellence.

Roster / 2026–27 Season

Active Teams

TEAM — 71881M

Mutex

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing PROS/C++ code. Team members built and maintained the website. Members: Douglas Matheny, Tolby Hastings, and Beau Hale.

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TEAM — 71881D

Deja Bot

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing Blocks code for the season. Members: Mason Ball and Mateo Margiotta.

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TEAM — 71881I

Ignition

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing Blocks code for the season. Members: Liam George, Jalen Crumbie, Kaeleb Ross, Dominyk Rey, and Isaac Cohen.

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TEAM — 71881H

Hail Mary

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing Blocks code for the season. Members: Eli Hale, Hanna Burgess, and Jason Watkins.

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TEAM — 71881P

Passione

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing Blocks code for the season. Members: Keishawn Easley, Alston Tackett, Jason Wynn, and Kayden Harriston.

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TEAM — 71881T

The Musketeers

Capital High School Robotics

Competitive team utilizing Blocks code for the season. Members: Ethan Brumley and Xavier Cantley.

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Retired

Inactive Teams

TEAM — 71881M

Breaking Bot

Capital High School Robotics

Team for the 2025-2026 year, high regional competitiveness, placed third in the state, went to the international world competition. Douglas Matheny And Aiden Miles. Retired Team, Not Competing.

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TEAM — 71881Z

Better Call Bot

Capital High School Robotics

Team for the 2025-2026 year, ran by one person, high regional competitiveness, sister team. Kevin Chen. Retired Team, Not Competing.

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Team 71881M Mutex

Meet Us

DRIVE TEAM

Douglas Matheny

Team Captain

Douglas Matheny (Sophomore) has 3 years of Vex V5RC / RECF Experience and was previously with Breaking Bot. He serves as a main figure in the CHS Robotics program. He is a very valuable person within our robotics program and is extremely dedicated to it.

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Beau Hale

Team Member

Beau Hale (Sophomore) has 1 year of Vex V5 / RECF Experience and was involved with the previous season, Push Back. He is very interested in STEM and is in multiple extracurriculars like Math Field Day and SCORES, placing high in multiple areas involving STEM.

DRIVE TEAM

Tolby Hastings

Team Member

Tolby Hastings (Sophomore) has 3 years of Vex V5RC / RECF Experience and is very interested in building a competitive robot, wishing to place as high as possible in West Virginia. He is a very helpful figure for our program and is our scout and strategist for the new game, Override.

The Program Directors

Meet Us

COACH

Shawn Ferguson

Head Coach

Runs the program day to day and is the first point of contact for scheduling, travel, and match-day logistics.

COACH

Kristin Ferguson

Assistant Coach

Works alongside Shawn coaching all Capital teams through builds, events, and everything in between.

CLASSROOM SUPERVISOR

Michael Terry

Classroom Supervisor

Keeps the build room running: the space, the tools, and the time students need to get robots competition-ready.

Common questions

FAQ

RECF Achieve is a global middle/high school robotics program in which student teams design, build, and program their own VEX V5-based robots each season to compete in a new game.

One active team, Mutex (71881M), plus two retired teams: Breaking Bot and Better Call Bot. All three shared one build room and parts budget.

Email [email protected] or reach out through our coach for meeting times and how to get started.

See our Sponsors and Support Us pages for ways to give.

See the Events page for our qualifier and state championship schedule.