Kamen was disappointed with the number of kids-particularly women and minorities-who considered science and technology careers, and decided to do something about it. įIRST was founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers. Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Israel, and Mexico contributing significant numbers of teams. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. 600 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship, where they competed in a tournament. They competed in 53 Regional Competitions, 65 District Qualifying Competitions, and 8 District Championships. In 2016, the 25th year of competition, 3128 teams with roughly 75,000 students and 19,000 mentors from 24 countries built robots. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders. Coopertition emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time. Gracious Professionalism embraces the competition inherent in the program, but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. FLL), FIRST Lego League (FLL), and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC).įRC has a unique culture, built around two values. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is one of four robotics competition programs organized by FIRST, the other three being FIRST Lego League Jr. While teams are given a standard set of parts, they are also allowed a budget and encouraged to buy or make specialized parts.
The game changes yearly, keeping the excitement fresh and giving each team a more level playing field.
Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, flying discs into goals, inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. Each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that weigh up to 120lb. FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition.
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