Our History

Founded in 2001

Columbus School for Girls founded FIRST Robotics Team 677 in 2001, making us the third all-girl team in FRC history! We are currently the second-longest-running all-girl team in FRC. We are graciously hosted by the PAST Foundation, who have provided us workspace room and access to their machine shop. Murphy's Outlaws has a long history of student mentorship with The Ohio State University, and currently have multiple mentors hailing from OSU.

Our Mission

Dedicated to Empowerment

As an all-girl team, we are no stranger to the term Steminism! Our mission is to inspire young women to pursue male-dominated fields, especially in STEM. We encourage all team members to be confident in the fact that they can do anything they set their minds to! Additionally, we encourage the team members to engage in FIRST values both inside and outside of robotics.

Organization

Murphy’s Outlaws is divided into three main teams: Mechanism (Mech), Wiring, and Coding. These are our Component Design Teams (or CDTs), whose functions are to ensure that our team's design and building processes can be iterated through efficiently. Mech, Wiring, and Coding focus on building the chassis and the physical mechanisms of the robot, the hardware, and the software respectively. There are also several subteams, including Drive, Outreach, Media, and Spirit.

2026 Season Leaders

Captain: Kendall Leff '26

Coding lead: Yinan Chen '26

Mech lead: Jiawen "Wendy" Yi '26

Wiring lead: Caroline Amato '26

Our 2022 Season Team!

CORI Meet Up

Outreach

Outreach is very important to our team! The purpose of our outreach activities is to empower and to inspire. We find it especially important to extend our mission of empowering minorities in STEM. Additionally, we love to inspire youths to find interest in STEM. We’ve even built two robots exclusively for outreach events! Our current active 'fun-bot' is Megg, a triangular Kiwi drive robot.