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“The skills kids learn when they participate in FIRST give them career opportunities. Do you want to be an electrical engineer, physicist? Do you want to do genomics or nanotechnology? What exciting career do you want to go into? We’re helping you make those options possible.”
- Dean Kamen, Founder, FIRST

 


FIRST Robotics Competition

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The core of the high school-level FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is the design and building of a robotic competitor. Each year in early January, FIRST unveils the competition or “game” at an annual kick-off event that is beamed by NASA satellite to auditoriums all over the world. This is the first glimpse students get of the game they will have to design their robot to play.

Working in teams, students have just six weeks to create their robot. They get the opportunity to work with programmable radio controls, pneumatics, motors, electrical circuits, mechanics, machining, web design, computer animation, computer assisted design, and other technologies – just like professional engineers and technologists do.

Following the six-week design and build phase, teams enter local and regional competitions. In 2007, there were 37 regional competitions, with over 1,300 US high schools participating in the “game”.

Two FIRST Robotics Competitions are held in the New York City / New Jersey region, which are attended by over 5,000 students, family and friends, and draw teams from as far away as Brazil and the UK.

The season culminates in the FIRST Championship, which is held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA. Over 20,000 students, family and friends attend this 3-day celebration to watch the teams compete. The competition is deliberately designed to have the feel of a sports match, complete with play-by-play announcers and cheering fans.

More about the FIRST Robotics Competition.

The 2008 Challenge: FIRST Overdrive!
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