Checkmate was founded in 2017 by a group of homeschoolers in Kennesaw meeting at a co-op called the Homeschool Consortium with a few FLL veterans and a lot of new members. In our first season we succeeded at building a competitive robot with the basic set of parts. Our team and skills have grown since the first year and our robots get better with every season.Today the team consists of ten students and three regular mentors, two of whom are engineers or technicians from Cobb County. We have contacts in the IT and CAD fields who also help out.