Months of work, planning and competition all focus on this week when the FIRST Robotics Championships happen at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO. Those teams that triumphed in super regional competitions around the country will now vie to be the national champions. There are lots of scholarships on the line too. Click […]
If you’re attending the FIRST Championships later this month at St. Louis later this month, be sure to check out Scholarship Row. This is where prospective college students can meet with college reps, menors and others involved in financial aid for FIRST participants. Some of the most prestigious technical and engineering schools in the country […]
Raymon Plummer, of Los Angeles, puts a face on the relationship between corporate involvement and high school students love of FIRST Robotics competitions. Plummer is an employee of Raytheon, one of FIRST’s major corporate sponsors. Plummer sees the value of keeping America competitive, so being a FIRST volunteer mentor is a “no brainer” for him. […]
Working with its partner NASA, the 2014 FIRST regional competitions are featuring lots of webcasts of the competitons. There are a series of webcasts every weekend during regional competition and they are greatly expanding the audience that has access to these events. Click here to find a webcast featuring a competition in your area. Better […]
US FIRST robotics is first about competition-the brightest high school students in the country going head to head in robotics competitions. But at its core, it is about education. This year competitors in FIRST events will be vying for over $16 million in scholarships, with almost every applicant qualifying for some financial aid.
The Pitt Pirates, from Winterville, NC, were the cream of the crop at last weekends US FIRST North Carolina regional competition. The Pirates grabbed the Regional Chairman’s Award and the Industrial Safety Award, and they will be travelling to St. Louis in April for the national championships. Congratulations!
The North Carolina NC First Robotics competition in Raleigh is off and running and you can watch a live stream provided by YetiRobotics3506. Click here to access the stream.
First brings their regional road show to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh this week for the N.C. regional championships. Set up begins today and the finals will be on Saturday. See you there.
This weekend marks the kickoff for this year’s First Robotics Competition in Michigan. Michigan is home to the most teams of any state in the country, and First in Michigan will be sponsoring competitions all across the state from now until the state championships in Ypsilanti April 10-12. This year the competition has added 80 […]
Noted inventor Dean Kamen is credited with being the founder of FIRST, but he didn’t do it alone. Back in 1989 Kamen joined with MIT physics professor Woodie Flowers to start FIRST. Together they got the robotics competition off the ground in 1992, with the first year featuring only one event, held in a high […]