In just six weeks, they created a robot that now has them championship bound. Time Warner Cable News reporter Breanna Fuss has more on The Charles Finney School's FIRST Robotics Team and shares why they need your help.

PENFIELD, N.Y. -- While their peers were soaking up Saturday's sunshine, a handful of high schoolers at The Charles Finney School were rebooting their proto-type bot.

"Our robot is about this big, it's very short," said Jay Daigle, a freshman at The Charles Finney School. "It can shoot a ball out here as well as take one it."

Daigle is one of 16 students on the FIRST Robotics Team at the non-denominational Christian school.

A video of their robot in action back in March shows Team 1405 competing in the FIRST Finger Lakes Regional Robotics Competition. They successfully captured a castle and now they're preparing to compete against more than 900 teams from across the globe in St. Louis.

"It's very, very valuable," said senior David Pastuch. 'It's just such a good experience."

This is round two of international competing for Pastuch. He was freshman when the team competed back in 2013. Even though Pastuch is a senior now, he's still nervous.

"At this point, who isn't? It's just so big," Pastuch said.

But, it isn't just the competition that has the team feeling the jitters. The lack of funds does too.

"We couldn't afford a bus this year, so we decided parents are going to drive in vans," said Larry Latona, a mentor for Team 1405 and teacher at The Charles Finney School.

The hope is to get the entire team and some 30 parents and mentors to the Gateway to the West. Right now, the team has a little more than $7,000 of its $25,000 goal.

"We do have a contingency plan where if we were short that if we were short, we would send a core team, our drive team of about 10 members and mentors that would go and represent our team," said Brenna Sniatecki, marketing mentor for Team 1405.

Championship-bound or not, it’s clear the experience of building a competitive robot has the students believing the sky is the limit.

"I want to be an astronaut," Daigle said. "I really want to go into meteorology, but maybe I'll go into mechanical engineering. I just really like science, let's put it that way."