FIRST Robotics Competition
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Most recent season or competition: FIRST Stronghold FIRST Steamworks |
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| Sport | Robotics-related games |
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| Founded |
Dean Kamen Woodie Flowers |
| Inaugural season | 1992 |
| Commissioner | Frank Merrick |
| Motto | "The varsity sport for the mind" |
| No. of teams | Total Registered: 6,771 |
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| Most recent champion(s) |
Chairman's Award Winner: 987: "HIGHROLLERS"Champion Teams: 330: "The Beach Bots" 2481: "Roboteers" 120: "Cleveland's Team" 1086: "Blue Cheese"
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| Most titles |
World Champions:71: Team Hammond (4 titles) Blue Banners: 254: Cheesy Poofs (44 banners)Regional & District Wins: 254: The Cheesy Poofs (32 titles)Regional & District Chairman's Award: 503: Frog Force (10 awards)Longest Win Streak :  2056: OP Robotics (23 titles)Greatest Combination in History : 2056: OP Robotics and 1114: Simbotics (18 Regional wins together)
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| TV partner(s) |
NBCUniversal NASA TV |
| Related competitions |
FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST Lego League FIRST Lego League Jr. |
| Official website | www |
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that weigh up to 120 pounds (54 kg). 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. The game changes yearly, keeping the excitement fresh and giving each team a more level playing field. While teams are given a standard set of parts, they are also allowed a budget and encouraged to buy or make specialized parts. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is one of four robotics competition programs organized by FIRST, the other three being FIRST Lego League Jr. (Jr. FLL), FIRST Lego League (FLL), and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC).
FRC has a unique culture, built around two values. Gracious Professionalism embraces the competition inherent in the program, but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. Coopertition emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders.
In 2016, the 25th year of competition, 3128 teams with roughly 75,000 students and 19,000 mentors from 24 countries built robots. They competed in 53 Regional Competitions, 65 District Qualifying Competitions, and 8 District Championships. 600 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship, where they competed in a tournament. 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.
Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Israel, and Mexico contributing significant numbers of teams.
FIRST was founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers. 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. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students, and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had potential.
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