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 […]
Teams now building robots for this years FIRST championship, to be held in St. Louis the last week of April, begin their quest in a regional competition. The regionals start the last weekend of this month in some states and continue through the first weekend of April. Regional competition is a great way to learn […]
30 high school students from Los Alamos have a great plan for building their entry in this years US First robotics competition. They have divided their team into six sub-teams, each with a separate set of responsibilities for building their entry. The sub-teams are: Drive train Manipulator CAD PR & Marketing Programming Electronics You can […]
When the 2014 First Robotics Competition challenge was announced by founder Dean Kamen, almost 70,000 high school students went to work to try to make their way to the finals in St. Louis later in the spring. Those students make up more than 2700 teams that will build competitive robots over the next six weeks […]
We wrote recently about a Michigan-based US First robotics team being recognized in the Governor’s state of the state address. It turns out that a lot of people in Michigan are interested in the Governor’s recognition. US First reports that Michigan now surpasses California as the state which hosts the most US First robotics teams. […]
The Jackson Vectors, A US First competitive robotics team from Jackson, MI were recognized last week during Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s State of the State address. The high school team, along with their faculty adviser, appeared at the state house and were presented to the assembled audience as an example of how First robotics can […]
The 2014 First Tech Challenge for US First robot competition teams is a called Block Party. Competing teams will build robots that move blocks into the opposing teams goal area. There will be both an autonomous (pre-programmed) and a driver controlled period in each match. Click here to see a demonstration of how the game […]
Working with NASA, First Robotics will provide a live stream of this coming weekends finals at the America’s Center in St. Louis, MO. Here’s the page you should check to get the details.